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South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced a new 16TB Next Generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF) solid-state drive (SSD), which aims to significantly improve server storage capacity and tackle data processing challenges. According to a company release, as well as increasing memory capacity, the new SSD will enable an improvement in IOPS (input/output operations per… Read More

An analyst at Canaccord Genuity has raised the target price for Nvidia stock from $155 to $180, based on the company’s success in the data center. The change in target price was made after Matthew Ramsay, a leading Wall Street analyst for Canaccord specializing in technology, reviewed the market and concluded that Nvidia will be… Read More

AMD has introduced the EPYC 7000 series high-performance data center processor. The largest processor in the EPYC 7000 series features to 32 high-performance ‘Zen’ cores and 64 threads, significantly more than the current competition. The EPYC processors boast record-breaking performance metrics, on both one-socket and two-socket server systems. AMD has stated that due to EPYC’s high-performance metrics,… Read More

Western Digital has filed a request for arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce, stating that Toshiba violated the companies’ joint venture contracts by spinning off the flash memory business into a separate unit for sale. Last week, Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan met with Toshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa to discuss the Japanese company’s effort to… Read More

A flexible, biodegradable semiconductor which decomposes when it is no longer needed is being developed by leading researchers at Stanford University. A release from the University cites a report from the United Nations Environment Program which estimates that almost 50 million tonnes of electronic waste will end up in landfill in 2017 alone. To combat… Read More