As China’s top memory firms race to advance next-gen DRAM and NAND, domestic chip equipment makers are stepping up for a slice of the booming HBM market as well. According to ijiwei, ACM Research has introduced several solutions optimized for HBM production and plans to release HBM4-compatible cle...

Micron Technology has announced plans to invest JPY 1.5 trillion (approximately USD 9.6 billion) to build a new factory dedicated to high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip production in Hiroshima, Japan. The facility will be located within Micron’s existing Hiroshima site, with construction scheduled to...

HBM4 isn’t even in mass production yet, but the industry is already sketching out HBM9. According to The Elec, Yang Jun-mo, a principal researcher at the Korea Nanofab Center (NNFC), predicts that HBM9—expected to debut around 2040—will deliver performance more than 60 times higher than sixth-...

South Korean leaders Samsung and SK hynix dominate the HBM space, but there is one area where their position appears less secure. According to The Elec, a new analysis from the Korea Institute of Intellectual Property Promotion (KIPRO) finds that most key patents for HBM-related advanced packaging ...

Beyond its September reveal of a multi-year Ascend AI chip roadmap through 2028—complete with proprietary HBM development—Huawei is making equally aggressive moves in enterprise storage. At its Huawei Connect Europe event in Madrid, the tech giant rolled out a sweeping refresh of its storage por...