Samsung Electronics announced that it would build a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, Texas just 16 miles from their current Austin facility. Estimated to cost $17 billion, the new plant will create 2,000 new jobs and will help boost the production of advanced logic semiconductor solutions that power next-generation innovations and technologies.
When you think NVMe, SSDs are the first thing that comes to mind. And for good reason, the NVMe interface changed the game when it comes to flash latency and throughput. In June, NVM Express, the non-profit organization behind NVMe specifications, released solutions that include support for Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). Additionally, the specifications facilitate
ScaleFlux showcased new Computational Storage products based on the ScaleFlux SFX 3000 storage processor during OCP Summit. Computational Storage is designed to help alleviate compute and memory bottlenecks while improving ROI for data center and IT infrastructure.
Synology has announced two new NAS systems geared toward SMB use cases, the DiskStation DS3622xs+ and the DS2422+. The former solution features a 6-core Intel Xeon CPU with two 10GbE built-in ports, while the latter is outfitted with a 4-core AMD Ryzen CPU. These two new releases are mild refreshes (essentially featuring much of the
QNAP has launched the TS-364, a new 3-bay RAID5 NAS, outfitted with M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD slots and 2.5GbE connectivity. The new QNAP NAS is designed for home/office environments, supporting light virtualization/containers and HDMI output. It’s ideal for centralized storage, backup, file sharing, and multimedia use cases and features the usual suite of NAS
Proxmox has released version 7.1 of Proxmox Virtual Environment, its server virtualization management platform. The newest release is based on Debian Bullseye 11.1 (using Linux kernel 5.13) and is comprised of updates to open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 6.1, LXC 4.0, Ceph Pacific 16.2.6, and ZFS 2.1.
Supermicro has announced Universal GPU modular servers, which will allow users to configure systems for their specific applications and workloads, giving them the choice of mixing and matching components like GPUs, CPUs, and memory. This includes dual-processor configurations using either 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable or 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors.
Western Digital has updated two of their 20TB HDD lines, the Ultrastar DC HC560 and WD Gold, with OptiNAND. This high-capacity, 9-disk platform (2.2TB/platter) with CMR recording format drives offer drop-in simplicity to meet customers’ growing storage demands. WD also indicates that both drives feature a few industry-first technologies like energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR), triple-stage
KIOXIA has announced the newest addition to its portfolio of PCIe Gen4 SSDs, the KIOXIA BG5 Series, designed for mainstream PC users. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a client-grade SSD released from the company, so this is something we are certainly looking forward to testing. Nonetheless, the new line focuses on a balance
NVMe has been a top conversation this week, thanks in large part to OCP Global Summit in San Jose. During the event, KIOXIA America announced full production availability of NVMe-oF SSDs for Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) systems. The KIOXIA EM6 Series Enterprise system, using the Marvell 88SN2400 NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, converts an NVMe
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