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...

Competition among global memory giants has been intensifying, and Micron has reportedly stepped up its recruitment efforts, actively targeting skilled engineers for its expanding global operations. According to Hankyung, sources indicate that Micron is using LinkedIn to recruit engineers with experi...