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SK Hynix CEO says Indiana will be key memory production base by 2030, first U.S. facility now underway

At the groundbreaking ceremony for SK Hynix's first U.S. facility, CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says Indiana will be a key memory production base by 2030.

Micron, Sandisk, and SK Hynix: History Says This About the Memory Trio's Rally

How plastic welds retain a molecular 'memory' of their former surfaces to strengthen pipe joints

Welding plastic is a critically important part of everyday engineering—especially for preventing leaks in underground water and gas pipes.

Can SanDisk Avoid the Memory Trap That’s Burned Investors Before?

Tiny oxygen gaps may determine whether next-generation memory films store data well

Researchers have captured in real time the "birth moment" when the performance of a next-generation memory material is determined. The key lies in controlling oxygen vacancies, microscopic defects created when oxygen atoms are missing from their normal positions.

Memory Stocks Are the New Stars of FOMO Investing. Why I’m Waving a Yellow Flag Here.

CoSign: Westside Cowboy Just Dropped One of the Best Debut Albums in Recent Memory

We connect with the buzzy indie rock act to chat about their trademark "Britainicana," community activism, and their great new album It Goes On. CoSign: Westside Cowboy Just Dropped One of the Best Debut Albums in Recent Memory Jonah Krueger

$215 discount turns Corsair's DDR5-6000 Vengeance memory kit into the cheapest 32GB of RAM at those speeds — 35% saving as stock dwindles and prices continue to

When it comes to building a new PC, memory has seen the sharpest rise in pricing in years.

Jim Cramer doubles down on his bold call on memory stocks

Mechanical memory helps explain how cells adapt their movement to changing environments

Cells in our bodies squeeze through dense tissue channels, thread past neighboring cells and navigate every nook and cranny within the extracellular matrix—the mesh-like network that surrounds and supports cells. How well they do this can shape a wide range of physiological proce

Micron’s CEO Says Memory Is No Longer a Commodity, and He Is Betting $10 Billion On It

Nvidia raising AI server prices more than 15% amid memory costs

Samsung Electronics stock had its worst day in three weeks, and the other memory stocks are lower as well

Samsung Electronics stock had its worst day in three weeks on Monday as investors reacted to its shareholder return plan, souring the mood for other memory-chip making rivals.

Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into

A team of scientists in Germany and Japan has demonstrated a solid-state cooling system that uses heat to generate the mechanical work required for refrigeration, potentially opening a route to processors and data centers that recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.

SK Hynix weighs Japan memory fab partnership to supply AI boom

The South Korean supplier of dynamic and flash memory is reviewing various locations for a jointly operated plant.

Agent memory as a file format

Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508317 Points: 140 # Comments: 73

Micron vs. Sandisk: 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Memory Stock Is Clearly the Better Buy Today

The SKA project: A model for dialogue between historical astronomical archives, local memory and modern science

Humans have been observing the sky for thousands of years.

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502214 Points: 120 # Comments: 19

Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

A homebrew dinner-plate-sized magnetic core memory USB storage device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496543 Points: 42 # Comments: 2

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341 Points: 266 # Comments: 104

Nvidia Just Locked In a $279 Billion Bet on Memory Chips

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

Article URL: https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485416 Points: 279 # Comments: 75

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490702 Points: 229 # Comments: 100

Sandisk and Kioxia Plan to Invest More Than $31 Billion in Japanese Memory Plants — About 60% of What They Have Spent There in 25 Years.

The pros and cons of flash memory

Flash memory is popular for lots of good reasons, but it's not without its faults. Will the market be moving on?

Google clamps down on Android app RAM usage amid AI memory crisis — developers have until February 2027 to adapt to new memory-optimizing rules

Because of the unprecedented memory shortage , Google has introduced stricter guidelines for how Android applications manage and use device memory.

SK Hynix weighs closer ties with Japan’s memory industry

The South Korean chipmaker doesn't have "any fixed plans" for its significant indirect stake in Kioxia Holdings, CEO Kwak Noh-jung says.

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis.

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083 Points: 781 # Comments: 233

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

In my living room a framed photograph hangs on the wall. A man clad in balloon pants and torn white shirt tosses a wooden pitchfork full of straw into the air with athletic grace. He’s threshing. Behind him spreads a

SK hynix Stock Jumps as AI Memory Expansion Accelerates. How to Play SKHY Here.

'Life gets dark': Mother running in Sydney Marathon in memory of dad

Kioxia and Sandisk plan $31 billion Japan memory chip expansion

The Tokyo-based maker of NAND flash memory will construct a third facility at its manufacturing site in Iwate Prefecture.

Google Play Store is forcing apps to stop hogging your phone's memory

A response to the RAM storage

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI 'has reached its inflection point'

It has become a tradition that every single quarter Nvidia reports record results that outpace all of its quarterly results before that.

Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited — new memory format strikes a balance betwe

OXMIQ Labs, a GPU IP company, revealed at Hot Chips 2026 that High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) cannot replace High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) across the vast majority of workloads. For some, HBF could emerge as a specialized memory tier for huge but relatively cold datasets. For others, HB

Anthropic Unifies Memory Across Claude and Cowork

You can also allow Claude to generate memory topics as you chat.

Pixel 11's new search feature made me realize my phone is becoming my digital memory

I stopped organizing my phone because Pixel finally learned how to search

Memory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra) - Daring Fireball

Memory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra) Daring Fireball Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute Apple Apple Giving Some Mac Mini Customers a Free Upgrade MacRumors Appl

Claude's memory now works across both chats and Cowork sessions

Anthropic is giving users more control over what memories Claude saves.

Anthropic update unifies memory feature across Claude Cowork and chat

Anthropic has announced a new update to how memory works between Claude Cowork and chat. Today’s change unifies memory between the two systems.

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment necessary. We're offering free access from August 23 to 26 so you can read all of our reporting from Hot Chips. Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM me

Hot Chips 2026: Arm details AGI server CPU with two 70-core N3P chiplets — touts 2 TB/s UCIe fabric link and 12-channel memory controller

This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment necessary. We're offering free access from August 23 to 26 so you can read all of our reporting from Hot Chips. When Arm introduced its AGI data center CPU , which it will ship starting

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443523 Points: 59 # Comments: 23

Best RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch

RAM Deals (Image credit: Future) 1. Quick Links 2. Top RAM Deals 3. DDR5 RAM Deals 4. DDR4 RAM Deals We're keeping a close eye on deals that pop up, looking for any and all RAM bargains to be had and adding them to the constantly-updated list below. RAM is expensive right now, bu

Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 1.2TB/S Memory Bandwidth

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444661 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Marvell VP pushes for DDR4 recycling for use in CXL memory, amid the worst DRAM shortage in years — company introduces three-tier AI memory infrastructure

Memory will account for roughly 30% of hyperscaler capex this year , up from about 8% in 2023 and 2024. Conventional DRAM contract prices rose 90% to 95% in a single quarter, and Meta is already running recycled DDR4 behind CXL across millions of servers , cutting server counts b

Hot Chips 2026: SK hynix pushes hybrid bonding to HBM5 as AI memory hits 775-micron ceiling — firm extends MR-MUF through Nvidia Rubin

This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment necessary. We're offering free access from August 23 to 26 so you can read all of our reporting from Hot Chips. SK hynix doesn't expect hybrid bonding to be ready for HBM4E, Jaesik Lee,

The Best Mattress Toppers I've Tried (2026): Supportive, Plush, Memory Foam

These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that’s a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support.

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%, blaming memory shortage

As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.

Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers — memory costs continue to soar

Nvidia has told some of its largest customers that the prices of servers containing its AI chips will rise by more than 15% in many cases, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The increases will take effect on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems shipping early next year, according

PrimeAgentOrchestrator: Memory-Primed Agent Spawning for Personal AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2608.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents start each session with an empty context window, discarding accumulated knowledge from prior work. We present PrimeAgentOrchestrator (PAO), a system that spawns new instances of Claude Code -

Amazon devices are the latest casualties of the memory shortage price hikes

Everything from the Echo to the Kindle is going up.

Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542

Spending on physical game disks has fallen to the lowest recorded level since tracking began in 1995, according to a new report documenting a drastic slump in the console market. U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average

Micron (MU) Fell 7%. Is the AI Memory Trade Now Too Expensive?

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger, and that constitutes the memory. The trouble is that these connections significantly change over time—they’re plasti

This frozen fiber makes light and sound interact 1,000x more strongly

Freezing the liquid core of an optical fiber produced an extreme environment where light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than in ordinary fibers. Researchers used the effect to create optoacoustic memory, potentially paving the way for lower-energy photonic

A major Alzheimer’s risk gene may shrink brain cells years before symptoms

Researchers have uncovered a possible reason why the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 can disrupt the brain long before memory problems begin. In mice, APOE4 increased a protein called Nell2, shrinking neurons and making memory circuits unusually active. That early hyperactivity predi

Depression doesn’t shrink the brain like we thought it did

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case

China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has announced in a social media post that it has started mass production of LPDDR6 memory for a Xiaomi smartphone, Reuters reports .

Kingston's NV3 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD drops to $156.99 at Newegg — 27% off brings it down to just 15.7 cents per GB

With the ongoing AI boom triggering worldwide memory shortages, getting a good deal on RAM or storage has become increasingly difficult.

Es Devlin Builds a Temporary Society in FUTURA SEOUL

Summary '3rd Poem' marks Es Devlin’s first solo exhibition in Korea.The show spans more than 30 years of work across light, sound, drawing, architecture and moving image.Visitors are folded into the exhibition through participatory works that explore presence, memory and collecti

Why RAMageddon Might Force Apps and Operating Systems’ Performance to Suck Less

AI demand is eating memory supplies, so Google is cracking down on Android memory hogs.

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China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

China's leading DRAM producer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S.

CobaltC – The Successor to C?

Article URL: https://strawberry9.github.io/the-wrong-memory/Appendix_06.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504922 Points: 13 # Comments: 16

MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070

The ongoing DRAM crisis has led to a sharp increase in laptop prices, with manufacturers facing exponentially high component costs, particularly memory and SSDs.

Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers, and that it did so by redesigning how each DNS cache entry is laid out in memory.

I paired a local LLM with Obsidian on mobile; it eliminated my daily note-sorting headaches

I stopped losing years of notes to my own memory

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co.

SK hynix breaks ground on the first HBM plant in the US, bringing key AI component production to the States — says production starts in 2029

High-bandwidth memory (HBM) is one of the key components of AI systems that is not currently assembled in the U.S., but this is going to change in 2029, when SK hynix initiates packaging of HBM memory modules at its facility in Indiana.

The urbanism lesson in Dolly Parton’s Dollywood

When beloved country star Dolly Parton died on August 25, she left behind not only albums, accolades, and mourning fans, but also an entire urban project where her legacy lives on—not just as a faint memory, but as a tangible transformation of Tennessee.

Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize

More screen time during infancy and around the start of school was linked to poorer academic performance and weaker working memory years later. The findings suggest that early childhood may contain particularly sensitive windows when screen habits can have longer-lasting effects.

Crucial SSD owner offered $200 refund for 4TB drive now selling for over $500 — company finally caves to warranty demands after protracted back-and-forth

Memory and data storage manufacturer Micron announced its exit from the consumer market earlier this year and pledged to honor warranties for existing products. However, according to a recent RMA case on Reddit, the company seems to be struggling to stick to that promise. Instead

Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

The Mac mini and Mac Studio occupy two distinct points in Apple's lineup of desktops, but lately, they've had something in common: They're popular for local AI inference and software development thanks to the advantages of their unified memory architecture and the fast CPUs and G

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

Apple unveils new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Alongside the new Mac mini, Apple today has announced its next-generation Mac Studio. The new Mac Studio lineup is powered by the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips and supports up to 512GB of unified memory. The new Mac Studio models are available to pre-order today .