Micron Pays $600 Million to End Netlist Patent Fight
For years, Netlist has been the small company that would not go away. The Irvine, California firm owns a portfolio of patents covering the memory modules and high-bandwidth memory that…
French Supercomputer Maker Bull Plans to Double Output
Europe’s effort to build more of its own AI computing power is about to land on a factory floor in western France. Bull, the French supercomputer maker owned by Atos,…
Micron Closes to Within a Point of SK Hynix in DRAM
Samsung still leads the market for the memory chips that sit inside everything from smartphones to AI data centers, but the race behind it has tightened to its narrowest margin…
Micron Says the Memory Crunch Will Last Into Fiscal 2028
Micron Technology is telling its customers something they do not want to hear: the shortage of memory chips squeezing anyone building an AI data center is going to get worse,…
Micron’s Record Quarter Gives Way to a Spending Warning
Micron Technology delivered its sixth consecutive record quarter after the market closed on September 30, and its shares fell anyway. The chip maker cleared every target it had set for…
Micron Reports After the Close With a $50 Billion Quarter in View
Micron Technology reports fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market closes on Tuesday, and the figure investors expect would have been unthinkable a year ago. Analysts expect revenue of roughly $50.75…
SoftBank Memory Unit and Shinko Sign Deal on Z-Angle Memory
SoftBank’s young memory venture has found a Japanese packaging partner for its attempt to break into a market ruled by three Korean and American giants. Saimemory, the memory subsidiary SoftBank…
SK Hynix Clears a Hurdle With TSMC on Next-Generation Memory
Jensen Huang is scheduled to sit down this week with the two men who control South Korea’s semiconductor industry. The Nvidia chief executive’s meetings with Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of…
Samsung and SK Hynix Turn to Light for the Next Bottleneck
For two years, the race in AI semiconductors was about a single number: how many calculations a chip could perform per second. An analysis published in South Korea on September…
SK Hynix’s Solidigm Weighs a U.S. Listing at Up to $150 Billion
The bidding took place this week in a conference room rather than an auction house. Investment banks pitched for roles on what could be one of the largest American listings…
