Japan will provide more subsidies to Kioxia and Western Digital for NAND memory chip manufacturing
Generative AI models need more memory, and manufacturers need more public funding to get going
Flash memory articles
Samsung memory chip foundry set to lose $3.04 billion in Q1 2023
Company has propped the division up with a loan from its displays subsidiary
WD's new 20TB HDDs combine 9 spinning platters with iNAND UFS memory
Unlike traditional SSHDs that store user data on faster memory, these drives store metadata from HDD ops to boost performance
WD Black2 Dual Drive Review
The WD Black2 sports both a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD in a single package. Unlike other hybrid configs such as Seagate's Momentus XT which combine ample magnetic storage with a little NAND, the Black2 crams both technologies into one drive too, but it simply does what desktop users have been doing for years by making the flash portion a primary boot drive with the disk serving as bulk storage.
