YMTC eyes DRAM and homegrown HBM
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State-backed NAND maker looks to ease the memory crunch

China’s NAND champ YMTC is barging into DRAM to build its own high-bandwidth memory and unclog a shortage throttling domestic AI rollouts.

Origin Code coming soon to market with high-end memory kits
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256GB kits, triple-fan memory cooler, and more

Origin Code could stir up things in the DDR5 memory module market as the company is already teasing some high-end memory kits with its Vortex series.

AMD Ryzen 3 5100 quad-core CPU spotted
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Another AM4 chip

It appears that the Ryzen 5 5600F is not the only new AM4 CPU that could be coming from AMD, as yet another has been spotted in China, a quad-core Ryzen 3 5100.

Ice River chip promises to recycle energy instead of frying it away
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Vaire computing’s Ice, Ice baby

A London startup reckons it has cracked the wasted energy problem in modern computing.

Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
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Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs

Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).