Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory 3E) solution. Micron’s 24GB 8H HBM3E will be part of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, which will begin shipping in the second calendar quarter of 2024. This milestone positions […]

HPC News Bytes 20231218: Intel’s Emerald Rapids Chip, New York State’s ‘Chips Act,’ Quantum Market Sizing, NVIDIA vs. AMD ‘Benchmarketing’

A happy Monday morning to you in the run-up to the holidays. Here’s a quick run-down on recent HPC-AI news, including: Intel’s Gen-5 Emerald Rapids chip, New York State’s “Chips Act,” quantum market sizing, GPU “Benchmarketing”: Nvidia vs. AMD

Micron Announces Shipment of Micron 3500 Client SSD

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 05, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 3500 NVMe SSD, which leverages its 232-layer NAND designed for, among other workloads, business applications and scientific computing. The c ompany said the Micron 3500 SSD, available in the M.2 form factor and with capacities up to 2TB, […]

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra to Receive SIA’s Robert Noyce Award

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced  Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Micron Technology, as the 2023 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award. SIA presents the Noyce Award annually in recognition of a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry….

Micron Launches Memory Expansion Module Portfolio for CXL 2.0 Adoption

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 07, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced sample availability of the Micron CZ120 memory expansion modules to customers and partners. The Micron CZ120 modules come in 128GB and 256GB capacities in the E3.S 2T form factor, which uses PCIe Gen5 x8 interface. Additionally, the CZ120 modules are capable of […]

HPC News Bytes Podcast for 20230731: AWS’s GPU-Laden P5 Instance; TACC’s Stampede-3; Micron’s 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s ‘White Space’ Infrastructure

As August beckons let’s take a quick (4:14) look at the highlights of the latest news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: AWS EC2 P5 cloud instance with Nvidia H100 and AMD Milan; TACC’s Stampede-3 mini Intel Aurora with Cornelis Network’s Omni-Path Express fabric; Micron 8-high 24GB HBM3; Cineca’s “white space” supercomputing infrastructure strategy.

Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India’s Earth Sciences Ministry

Paris – June 22, 2023 – Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana […]

Micron to Bring EUV Technology for Memory Manufacturing to Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 17, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) announced today it will introduce extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, bringing patterning technology to manufacture its next generation of DRAM, the 1-gamma (1γ) node. Micron said it will be the first semiconductor company to bring EUV technology to Japan, at its Hiroshima fab. […]

HPC Industry Veteran Raj Hazra Named CEO of Quantinuum

Tokyo, Cambridge, UK, Broomfield, CO — Feb. 14, 2023 — Quantum computing company Quantinuum today announced that HPC industry veteran Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra has been appointed chief executive officer. Quantinuum was formed in 2021 by the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum’s middleware and applications. Hazra has more than three decades of experience […]

Micron: DDR5 Server DRAM Now Available

BOISE, Idaho, July 06, 2022 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM in support of industry qualification of next-generation Intel and AMD DDR5 server and workstation platforms. Micron said the move to DDR5 memory enables up to an 85 percent increase in system […]