Western Digital previewed their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops at FMS 2024. The company has been focusing on the mainstream market, but their SSD lineup is due for an update with Gen 5 drives. The new SSDs will utilize Micron's 2400 MT/s 232L 3D TLC.

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Imec and ASML have successfully demonstrated the first logic and DRAM patterns using ASML's experimental Twinscan EXE-5000 EUV lithography tool, achieving resolution good enough for 1.4nm-class process technology with one exposure. The system's capabilities confirm the development of the High-NA ecosystem for commercial chip production later this decade. Luc Van den hove, imec's president and CEO, stated that High NA EUV will be instrumental in continuing dimensional scaling of logic and memory.

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Silicon Motion's SM2320 native USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 controller has enjoyed market success with numerous design wins. The SM2320 went into mass production in Q3 2021 and supports four channels of NAND flash running at up to 800 MT/s. The new SM2322 uses the same 28nm node and retains support for four channels of NAND flash.

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Silicon Motion has finally set its SM2508 client SSD controller for mass production, which is expected to be available for purchase by the end of the year. The controller, which has been teased for over a year, is designed for the mainstream segment of the Gen 5 SSD market. The SM2508 features 4x Cortex R8 CPU cores, 4K+ LDPC error correction, and is manufactured using a 6nm process.

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Solidigm has announced a 122 TB enterprise QLC SSD, which is expected to be released in early 2025. The company has already released a 61.44 TB enterprise QLC SSD in mid-2023, which saw high demand. The new SSD will be available in a U.2 version and will use QLC technology.

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Corsair, a prominent PC component company, has announced a shift from 80 PLUS to Cybenetics certification for its power supply units (PSUs). The primary reason for this move is the Cybenetics certification's dual focus on energy efficiency and noise levels. The 80 PLUS certification, which has been a standard in the industry for decades, has not seen significant updates in over 15 years.

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AMD has launched a new bundle offer, which includes the Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The bundle comes with free games, specifically Warhammer 40,000- Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9- Awakening. The offer covers AMD's mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, excluding the upcoming Ryzen 9000 series. AMD's laptop hardware is also included in the bundle.

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Western Digital has teased its next-generation 128 TB solid-state drive, using BiCS8 QLC NAND memory, designed for datacenters and 'fast AI data lakes and capacity-intensive performance applications'. The product is currently in sampling phase and features a U.2/U.3 form-factor suitable for GPU servers. The company's BiCS8 NAND has 218 layers and uses a hybrid bonding scheme called CMOS directly bonded to Array (CBA).

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AMD has launched two mid-range desktop processors, the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X, which are part of the Ryzen 9000 series. The Ryzen 7 9700X is a 8C/16T part with full-sized Zen 5 cores that can boost up to 5.4 GHz. The Ryzen 5 9600X is a 6C/12T part with full-sized Zen 5 cores that can boost up to 5.4 GHz.

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Solidigm has announced the availability of its new D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 NVMe drives, which use SK hynix's 176L 3D TLC NAND and come with a PCIe 5.0 interface. The drives have a different DWPD rating, with the D7-PS1010 targeting a specific workload. The company's datacenter SSD lineup includes models with different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs.

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