GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company’s costs are expected to increase by $1.5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The move comes as the RAM shortage is affecting the automotive industry, right as cars are requiring more memory and storage due to infotainment and ADAS features.
NVIDIA has introduced Synthetic Video Detector, an AI tool that detects AI-generated videos with up to 92% accuracy in milliseconds.
U.S. lawmakers demand Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ban imports of memory chips from China to the U.S., ask allies to do the same.
Early testing hints that CXMT-made DDR5 RAM performs worse than SK Hynix-made DDR5 at the same clock speeds, while being harder to manually overclock as well. It also allegedly doesn’t scale with voltage or allow the subtimings to be tuned properly.
As CXMT’s DRAM capacity set to match Micron’s, China’s DRAM industry could become world’s second largest after South Korea.
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says the memory shortage will get even worse in 2027, and claiming the RAM crunch will last at least until the turn of the decade.
The first independent benchmarks for AMD’s EXPO ULL memory are available, showing just up to a 4% improvement despite an increase in price.
SPHBM4 promises HBM4-class bandwidth without usage of silicon interposer and CoWoS-like packaging.
MSI has officially validated region-bound Chinese RAM using CXMT modules to run at up to 8,200 MT/s on its AM5 motherboards. Models with two RAM slots can handle these high frequencies a bit better than four-DIMM variants.