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SK Hynix Intros HBM2E Memory

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SK Hynix Intros HBM2E Memory

SK Hynix announces a High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) update-- HBM2E DRAM promising "the industry's highest bandwidth" in the shape of a 50% bandwidth increase and 100% additional capacity over the previous HBM2.

According to the company, HBM2E supports bandwidth reaching over 460GB per second, based on 3.6Gbps performance per pin with 1024 data I/Os. TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology allows the vertical stacking of a maximum of eight 16Gb chips, creating a single, dense package with 16GB data capacity.

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IDC: Traditional PCs See Growth in Q2 2019

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IDC: Traditional PCs See Growth in Q2 2019

The EMEA traditional PC market has some good news for Q2 2019-- shipments return to growth after 2 consecutive quarters of Y-o-Y declines, thanks to strong demand for PC refresh from the commercial segment.

Said refresh demand comes ahead of the January 2020 Windows 7 end of service (EOS) date. Thus, despite ongoing shift towards mobile computing solutions, strong desktop performance supported the overall results for the quarter. Further boosting Q2 2019 is the fulfillment of order backlogs brought about by the Intel CPU shortage from earlier in 2019.

The PC market also sees growth on a global perspective, as Q2 2019 shipments total 64.9 million units, a "notably higher than expected" 4.7% Y-o-Y increase brought about by a combination of supply shortage easing and looming trade tensions.

"Supply for Intel's processors improved markedly during the quarter, allowing most PC vendors to fulfill old orders while also shipping a healthy supply of new PCs into the channels," IDC says. "Additionally, the threat of increased tariffs led some PC makers to ship a surplus of desktops and notebooks, thereby artificially propping up the PC market during the Q2 2019."

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A Blockchain Registry... For the Moon!

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A Blockchain Registry... For the Moon!

S. Korean firm Diana finds a novel way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing-- a project to register who owns what of the planet Earth's sole satellite. And, of course, it uses the blockchain.

Currently a UN Treaty lists the moon as a common heritage of mankind, and thus not owned by any country. However the moon holds potentially "tremendous" resources, and sooner or later competition for the ownership of the moon is set to kick off between certain countries and companies. Enter the Diana Lunar Registry, a blockchain-based register complete with decentralised app designed to “clearly define the possible rights of mankind to the moon, given the increased possibility of ownership disputes, through collective registration.”

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Gartner: DRAM Prices Down -42.1% in 2019!

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Gartner: DRAM Prices Down -42.1% in 2019!

A demand-driven DRAM oversupply is to push prices down by -42.1% in 2019, Gartner reports-- and the oversupply is set to continue until at least Q2 2020, the result of slower demand recovery by hyperscale vendors and increasing inventory levels.

The result is the end of the longest period of undersupply for the DRAM industry.

The findings come from the Gartner report on the global semiconductor industry, one seeing revenues fall by -9.6% in 2019 to reach $429 billion. This is down from the Q1 2019 forecast of a -3.4% decline.

“The semiconductor market is being impacted by a number of factors. A weaker pricing environment for memory and some other chips types combined with the US-China trade dispute and lower growth in major applications, including smartphones, servers and PCs, is driving the global semiconductor market to its lowest growth since 2009,” Gartner says. “Semiconductor product managers should review production and investment plans to protect themselves from this weaker market.”

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Gartner: EMEA PC Market Shows Growth in Q2

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Gartner: EMEA PC Market Shows Growth in Q2

The EMEA PC market returns to growth in Q2 2019, Gartner reports, as shipments are up by 1.7% Y-o-Y thanks to "strong" business demand brought about by Windows 10 deployments and PC refreshes from companies and government organisatsions.

The same cannot be said about consumer demand though, since it remains "very weak." According to the analyst mainstream users are not seeing enough innovation outside of gaming and high-end mobile PCs, leading to longer PC life cycles and a "very negative" impact on midtier PC vendors used to selling more to the consumer segment.

From a global perspective, Q2 2019 PC shipments total 63 million units, a 1.5% Y-o-Y increase from Q2 2018 shipments of 62m. Gartner points out demand from the Windows 10 refresh in the business market, as well as "strong" desktop PC growth offsetting a decline in mobile PC shipments. Furthermore, the Intel CPU shortage appears to be easing. The shortage mainly impacted small and midsize vendors, since large vendors took advantage and continued to growing, taking market share from smaller vendors struggling to acquire CPUs.

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