Microsoft’s revelation that its Maia 200 inference accelerator pairs a mammoth 216 GB of on‑package HBM3E with the claim that SK hynix is the exclusive supplier has sent shockwaves through the AI memory market and escalated the Korea‑based rivalry over high‑performance HBM for hyperscaler ASICs...
This week’s PC Perspective podcast episode unspools a tight, messy knot of hardware headlines: a Windows 11 patch that coincided with reports of disappearing SSDs and an industry-wide investigation, a dramatic leap in QLC NAND that promises denser consumer drives, NVIDIA’s Blackwell-era push...