Tootfinder

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster (Moon Joon-hyun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10812835

SK chief warns AI memory shortage could turn geopolitical - The Korea Herald
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said the global shortage of AI memory chips is severe enough that foreign governments have started intervening on behalf of their

For Aaron Glenn, an upcoming trip down memory lane will test his play-calling prowess https://www.nfl.com/news/for-aaron-glenn-an-upcoming-trip-down-memory-lane-will-test-his-play-calling-prowess

Huawei packt 4096 KI-Beschleuniger in einen riesigen Server
Mit dem KI-Beschleuniger Ascend 960 wechselt jetzt auch Huawei auf flottes High Bandwidth Memory. Systeme skalieren vor allem in die Breite.
https://ww…

Huawei packt 4096 KI-Beschleuniger in einen riesigen Server
Mit dem KI-Beschleuniger Ascend 960 wechselt jetzt auch Huawei auf flottes High Bandwidth Memory. Systeme skalieren vor allem in die Breite.

Jimfs
#java #google

Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-the-memory-cr

Finally .. .I spent some time developing some photos again ... yes, I enjoyed the process of seeing how a war develops into a memory.
#photography

More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …

Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.

Really good and detailed breakdown of the memory implications of associative arrays in PHP. Yet another reason to "Never* use arrays." (Use classes, and convert as quickly as you can.)
https://dev.to/nazar-boyko/i-added-one-key-to-a-php-array…

I Added One Key to a PHP Array. It Cost 25 MB of Memory
I was recently refactoring some legacy PHP code and noticed that the same data array was being used...

Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel for a separate project in Ohio (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737418v1

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory
Audiovisual stimulation is a promising approach for studying and modulating human neuronal gamma (>30 Hz) oscillations and associated memory processes. Portable setups can increase ecological validity and therapeutic potential, but options remain limited. See-through shutter glasses are a new mobile technology that adds a visual flicker effect to what the user naturally sees. Here, we validated this method in a multisensory, cognitively relevant setting. We leveraged a previous experimental des…

@… don't worry, they'll be a long three years.
I don't think it's middle age. I think it's stability. My long term memory is divided into eras - by job, girlfriend, house. When you do the same job from the same home with the same partner for a long time there is less to hang memories on. My personal latest checkpoint was lockdown; …

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

Biggest Week 2 in Recent Memory? | Cowboys Shift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEhN65E1Uk

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/xi…

{duckplyr} is a drop-in replacement for dplyr powered by DuckDB. Keep the familiar dplyr syntax while speeding up work with large datasets: #rstats

A DuckDB-Backed Version of dplyr
A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for performance. Offers convenient utilities for working with in-memory and larger-than-memory data while retaining full dplyr compatibility.

Na břehu Dunaje. Duna-parti Cipők, Budapešť.
#budapest #danube #photography

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

#Gaza is a hot, arid place, Scotland a cool damp one. There aren't that many commonalities between them. But here, too, we pick, and sing about, the wild mountain thyme. Fortunately for us, we have other things to eat with it.
I've seen several people from Gaza lately commenting the wild thyme is the last thing they have left to add savour to their food. Here @…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

In the era of the RAMageddon, even a Raspberry Pi will cost you a couple hundred bucks.
But you know, you don't even need something that powerful for an ad- blocking DNS filter.
In fact, you can use a $5 microcontroller to build a fully functional ad-blocking filter with over 500,000 domains blocked and around 10ms latency.
We know that's possible because Egyptian full-stack developer ZedAxis (@M-Abozaid on GitHub) has already built one.
Using an ESP32-C3 &qu…

Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds
This project uses a clever hashing trick to fit over half a million blocked domains into just 4MB of flash memory.

Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260816044827.htm "neural traveling waves may function as a computational engine in the visual cortex";

Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
Traveling electrical waves sweeping across the brain may help determine what we notice, predict what comes next, and construct our internal picture of the world. Researchers now argue that these waves aren't just background activity—they could be a core computational engine behind perception and memory.

Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid an AI-driven memory shortage (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
TOKiMONSTA:
🎵 Memory on the Run
#TOKiMONSTA
https://tokimonsta.bandcamp.com/track/memory-on-the-run
https://open.spotify.com/track/0c6VeRgmmFBN46EFDwsG41

Optically Writable Atomic Vapor Memory as a Substrate for Optical Reservoir Computing
Elizabeth Robertson, Mingwei Yang, Lina Jaurigue, Guillermo Gallego, Kathy L\"udge, Janik Wolters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17807

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/116928127037360734
“Affordable entry-level computers may ‘disappear by 2028’ according to one forecast. And the memory shortage is expected to continue for years.”
So I guess we’ll just have to rent our computing from… *c…

The Memory Tapes
In each episode, oral historian Dr Shirleene Robinson AM combines firsthand accounts with expert storytelling to reveal the people behind Australia's history...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-memory-tapes…

"A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna"
#Brazil #Environment
https://e…

A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna
In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow of water, and skewing human memory of the landscape.

ROM-COM: a MS-DOS executable stored in read only memory

Our (potentially) glorious sodium battery future
I've been paying attention to batteries for years now.  Years ago, my interest was to see if I could build a bicycle stand light that would run on a battery that was trickle-charged from the bicycle's magneto hub.  I spent a while reading about batteries at "Battery University", I knew a little bit about NiCad batteries and their memory effect, and about Nickel Metal-Hydride batteries and their slow self-discharge.  

Well that's a fucking terrifying image.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/#things-get-worse

@…
That's your new post up now. Let me know if you approve it.
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/posts-output/202…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band play a hells angels boat party in #nyc harbor with bo diddley & elephant’s memory, same boat as ’73, opening a mini-run leading into the dead’s fall tour. terrible audio, great video. late summer ’76, show #1.
audience tape:

BOK BOK - "Misfit" (1980)
Heard this song earlier. First time in decades. It's always a weird feeling to all of a sudden recall a very old memory through song.
This is Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey and Fall drummer Karl Burns. This is pretty much their only release. It's ok.
#music #UK

As memory shares fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/97eeb736-f8af-4839-8511-3d0354c8b34c

from my link log —
Examining ARM vs x86 memory models with Rust.
https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/
saved 2020-06-27 ht…

The Mercy of Forgetting: The Story Leads the Telling, and Perfect Memory Is the Enemy of Inspiration
At a dinner table, the worst storyteller is often the person with the best memory. He begins with the route to the restaurant, the trouble finding parking, the waiter’s name, the table beside the kitchen, the appetizer nobody liked, and the exact minute when…

This incite in to what my ubuntu system is doing that would have taken hours of time to research if I ever could have learned it at all had I not used an LLM. I'll continue to caveat that LLMs have many many things about them that are bad on multiple levels.
Using LLMs to fix system problems is doing something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
#ai

Roku raises the prices of its flagship hardware devices, citing shortages of RAM and other components due to AI; Roku Ultra's price rises $50 to $150 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/roku-raises-prices-memory-component-shortages-bla…

Roku raises prices of streaming devices, ongoing memory shortage blamed
The cost of some Roku streaming devices has increased by as much as 50 percent as the company works through ongoing component shortages caused by the AI craze.

I feel like there was a period when I wasn't tired all the time, even if it's currently beyond the horizon of my memory. Is it foolish to hope that that time might come again?

How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by #optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/

Everything of relevance will eventually be (re-)written/generated in or extended with #Rust and/or #Typescript unless we come up with something more efficient.
Other languages won't "die" but it makes no sense to do anything else.
C's memory unsafeties have always been critical …

Experimenting with skip-lists for malloc today. With a first-fit allocator, free() wants to merge adjacent blocks, so it needs to search for them. A single-linked list makes that O(N). A skip-list seems like an interesting option—non-recursive, low memory use and simple implementation. It's "working", but it's not pretty yet. Anyone else ever played with these?

stdlib: Rough version of skip-list based malloc · picolibc/picolibc@029cc74
Replace the single linked list of free malloc blocks with a skip-list. This converts free from O(N) to O(log(N)) and might serve as an alternative to the bucket-based allocation scheme currently bo...

In the year 2026, it would be nice to be able to buy an off-the shelf drive with a hardware write-disable switch.
I once used SD memory cards for this, I but found out shortly after the switch is typically enforced only by the operating system (most readers and most chips do not enforce the switch setting).
#WriteDisabledDrive

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
TOKiMONSTA:
🎵 Memory on the Run
#TOKiMONSTA
https://tokimonsta.bandcamp.com/track/memory-on-the-run
https://open.spotify.com/track/0c6VeRgmmFBN46EFDwsG41

SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its corporate investment scope into AI computing, data centers, and optical interconnect tech (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10878747

SK hynix launches SK hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley - The Korea Herald
SK hynix said Friday it had launched SK hynix Ventures, a corporate venture capital brand in Silicon Valley, as the memory chipmaker expands its investment acti

YAVIN: A Unified Architecture for Secure Edge Processing in Memory
Shouzhi Fang, William C. Tegge, Md Omar Faruque, Peipei Zhou, Endadul Hoque, Alex K. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13496
arXiv:2608.13496v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Secure, private multi-tenant execution spanning processors, memory, and accelerators remains one of the most significant challenges in modern edge computing systems. Simultaneously, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as an effective approach for reducing the Von Neumann bottleneck by moving computation closer to data. Existing trusted execution environments (TEEs) establish trust only within the processor, protecting data while it traverses untrusted resources such as the memory bus. Consequently, trusted computation cannot be performed directly within memory. We present YAVIN, a unified trusted computing base (TCB) that extends the TEE beyond the processor to encompass both processor execution and a dedicated memory region supporting trusted processing-in-memory execution while treating the memory bus as untrusted. Leveraging the dedicated protected memory regions already established by conventional TEE architectures, YAVIN enables data to be decrypted, processed, and re-encrypted by either processor or PIM execution while remaining within the TEE. To realize this unified TCB, YAVIN presents the first PIM implementations of the LightSaber KEM post-quantum cryptosystem and ASCON-128 authenticated encryption, co-designing both algorithms for efficient DRAM execution to establish and maintain shared cryptographic state. Finally, we demonstrate how cryptography-PIM co-design for tensor-based workloads reorganizes computation to satisfy the ordering constraints imposed by authenticated encryption with minimal performance overhead while simultaneously enabling bit-sliced ordering that limits temporary plaintext exposure. Compared to the latest PIM AES implementation, YAVIN achieves more than a 20x speedup while incurring only 34% and 9.3% overhead when executing INT8 and INT32 quantized edge-class LLMs, respectively, relative to plaintext execution.
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Well, thanks for the dreams I guess
#shortstory

The extended version of "Special Delivery: Programming with Mailbox Types" just got accepted to JFP!!! I am absolutely skipping with joy this morning; 5 years in the making all in all.
Few minor things left to do but immensely happy and proud of this work: https://zenodo.org/records/20276673

I'm rich, haha! 😹
Just kidding of course, that's DDR2-800 memory.
Still a whopping 16 GiB of it, though, as an upgrade for my beautiful PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.0GHz).
Only problem: The Mac would only ever run the memory at PC2-3200U (aka 400 MHz), not the full 533MHz.
Someone else had luckily dumped the OpenFirmware ROM and I could determine that it doesn't handle such fast memory properly, it'll just fall back to 400 MHz.

from my link log —
What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

Nvidia kündigt High Bandwidth Memory NVHBM an
Nvidia stellt einen Baukasten für Custom-HBM4 bereit. Er enthält Speicher-Controller und eine NVLink-Fusion-Schnittstelle.
https://www.heise.de/news…

Nvidia kündigt High Bandwidth Memory NVHBM an
Nvidia stellt einen Baukasten für Custom-HBM4 bereit. Er enthält Speicher-Controller und eine NVLink-Fusion-Schnittstelle.

Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it calls the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/inside-sk-hynixs-720-billi…

An inside look at SK Hynix $720 billion AI-fueled buildout that's taking over South Korea
SK Hynix, the leading maker of high-bandwidth memory, is pouring $720 billion into memory factories to meet AI demand. We got an exclusive first look.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
P.M. Dawn:
🎵 Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
#PMDawn
https://djeddyredrums.bandcamp.com/track/p-m-dawn-set-adrift-on-memory-bliss-dj-eddy-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/7vo0ILIm1He4wo30ikYBHh

Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree #Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem
https://thenewstack.io/markdown-agent-memory-moat/

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

Shared Memory for R Objects
Share R objects across processes on the same machine via a single copy in POSIX shared memory (Linux, macOS) or a Win32 file mapping (Windows). Every process reads from the same physical pages through the R Alternative Representation (ALTREP) framework, giving lazy, zero-copy access. Shared objects serialize compactly as their shared memory name rather than their full contents.

Found a bug in the ThunderScope driver in ngscopeclient v0.2 that could lead to GPU memory leaks in some cases. Will probably be shipping a hotfix v0.2.1 release soon just to get this fix out there officially.

@…
I have added your post 'The Price of Memory' to your blog. Do you think it is now time to start publicising this?
Best wishes
Simon
https://www.

The Great Memory Robbery
For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/11/the-great-memory-robbery/

Court doc: a US federal jury says Japanese chipmaker Kioxia owes Viasat $229M for infringing Viasat's flash-memory patent that helps devices use less energy (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/k

from my link log —
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed.
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-code-at-memory-speed/
sa…

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is "not in favor" of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be "other solutions to the memory issue" (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memor

Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage kicks off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/technology/memory-chip-shortage-ai.html

A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington
As data centers gobble up memory chips, other industries that need the components, including electronics companies like Apple and medical device makers, are asking for government help.

Monolithic integration of sensing, memory, and processing in ScAlN ferroelectric optoelectronic transistors for multimodal fusion https://pubs.acs.org/aamick/article-abstract/doi/10.1021/acsami.6c12438/5427172/Monolithic-…

from my link log —
Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript in a web browser.
https://nolanlawson.com/2020/02/19/fixing-memory-leaks-in-web-applications/
saved 2020-02-21

Fixing memory leaks in web applications
Update: I’ve written a tool to automate many of the steps described in this post. Part of the bargain we struck when we switched from building server-rendered websites to client-rendered SPAs…

Counterpoint: China's YMTC accounted for 14% of NAND flash shipments in Q2, behind Samsung's 25% and SK Hynix's 22%, but ahead of Micron and Kioxia (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti…

China’s YMTC breaks into global top 3 flash-memory suppliers for first time
The chipmaker captured 14 per cent of global bit shipments, but still ranks fifth by revenue due to heavier exposure to lower-value products.

Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world
— racks up 19x quarterly increase in profit
Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined,
due to increased memory and storage prices
https://www.…

Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world
DS president Kim Yong-Kwan told staff the unit's 2026 operating profit will top everything it has earned since Samsung entered the memory business.

from my link log —
What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-dollar400-million-startup-wants-…

A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.

Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/ai-cloud-company-cor…

from my link log —
What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

Sources: Nvidia is considering lower-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to potential issues securing enough HBM, and has tested at least three versions (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-weighs-radical-idea…

Nvidia Weighs Radical Idea: Less Rubin Ultra Chip Memory
Nvidia is weighing a radical step to deal with a shortage of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips: using less of it than planned in its next-generation graphics processing unit, the Rubin Ultra. Over the past few weeks, Nvidia has been testing at least three versions of the Rubin Ultra GPU, some ...

US chip, memory, and storage stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with Sandisk down 13%, Seagate 10%, Western Digital 9%, and Intel and Micron 6% each (George Steer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c92a5a36-55a0-4d04-b84c-d1705976987b

Sources: CXMT has begun producing HBM3E memory chips in small quantities and plans to expand production in 2027, a major advance for China's chip industry (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-cxmt-makes-breakthrough…

China’s CXMT Makes Breakthrough in Advanced Memory Chips
China’s leading memory-chip maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, has begun producing advanced high-bandwidth memory in small quantities, a milestone that could ease a key constraint on the country’s development of homegrown AI processors. CXMT is making HBM3E, an advanced type of high-bandwidth ...

from my link log —
NBR: neutralization based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14542
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/03IIM.html

NBR: Neutralization Based Reclamation
Safe memory reclamation (SMR) algorithms suffer from a trade-off between bounding unreclaimed memory and the speed of reclamation. Hazard pointer (HP) based algorithms bound unreclaimed memory at all times, but tend to be slower than other approaches. Epoch based reclamation (EBR) algorithms are faster, but do not bound memory reclamation. Other algorithms follow hybrid approaches, requiring special compiler or hardware support, changes to record layouts, and/or extensive code changes. Not all …

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps | TechCrunch
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/03/apple-paying-400-more-for-iph…

Apple paying 400% more for iPhone 18 Pro memory, says TrendForce
A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than...

Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/jefferies-warns-memory-pric…

Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
Memory prices are all set to rise further in the coming quarters of 2026 as persistent shortages continue to grip the market.

Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/27/memory-crunch-shaking-ap…

The memory shortage shaking Apple and Microsoft is 'existential crisis' for smaller players
While Apple and Microsoft raise prices on key devices to help cover the soaring costs of memory, smaller consumer electronics companies are in dire straits.

Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/china-tech/hp-asus-and-acer-…

HP, Asus and Acer begin using CXMT chips amid memory shortage
But PC makers careful to avoid angering top suppliers Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix

Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027 (Ming-Chi Kuo)
https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/the-memory-supply-demand-gap-will…

The memory supply-demand gap will keep widening through 2027.
The memory supply-demand gap will keep widening through 2027. That is the real reason Apple is lobbying the White House to keep CXMT off…

Positron, which is designing an AI processor called Asimov with a "memory-first architecture" and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/positron-value

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-h…

Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34% (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260810-13172.html

iPhone 18 Pro BOM Cost Expected to Surge Nearly 40%, Leaving Apple to Sacrifice Margins to Sustain Shipments, Says TrendForce
TrendForce’s latest smartphone industry research reveals that escalating component costs—led by memory—are expected to significantly raise production expenses for Apple’s next iPhone 18 series. For the 256 GB model, the BOM cost is estimated to increase by about 38% YoY, making higher retail prices unavoidable. Apple may offset some of these costs by reducing gross margins to prevent weakening consumer demand, aiming to keep prices manageable, maintain shipment volumes, and grow market …

Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks liquidity after billions in share buybacks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/kioxia-is-s…

Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html

Apple stock drops 6% on MacBook and iPad price hikes due to memory crunch
Tim Cook said last week that Apple would hike prices due to surging memory and storage costs.

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/china-smartphone-market-decline…

Why Huawei and Apple Grew While China’s Smartphone Market Fell Again in Q2 2026
China smartphone shipments fell 4.3% in Q2 2026 while Huawei and Apple grew nearly 20% each. IDC breaks down the vendor shift and outlook.

Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/kalshi-r…

PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/apple-prismml-ai-compression-iphone.html
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Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone
PrismML says its compressed version of Alibaba’s Qwen model uses up to 15 times less memory, potentially advancing Apple’s AI push.

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/blogs/2

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share (Shilpi Jain/Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone…

Q2 2026 Global Smartphone Shipments Slump to Lowest Q2 Level in 13 Years as Memory Crisis Deepens
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 2026 reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013 as the DRAM and NAND shortage intensified.

Sources: Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from 7M-8M previously, and 80M iPhones in total across new models (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/apple-…

Apple to launch 5 new iPhone models to gain market share amid memory crunch
Company raises production target for first foldable phone to about 10 million units

Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031 (Henry Siu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/samsung-races-add-chi…

Samsung Races to Add Chip Capacity, Moves Up Plant to 2029
Samsung Electronics aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, by 2029, bringing the timeline forward by up to two years, according to a Samsung spokesperson. The move comes amid a surging demand for memory chips and the AI infrastructure boom. The facility, part of South Korea’s planned Yongin National Industrial Complex, was previously

Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Foreign investment in Japan's chip industry has reached ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

Sony, TSMC deal brings overseas investment in Japan chipmaking to $37bn
Tokyo's subsidies help, but US tech and AI giants are powerful draw

Bank of Korea: South Korea's monthly memory chip output is set to grow by ~600K wafers by 2028, widening its lead over China's CXMT, set to grow by ~300K wafers (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/exclusi

Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs
The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox.

Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components

New HBF spec outlines tech that can give GPUs terabytes of extra memory — Sandisk and SK hynix unveil spec with up to 16-Hi NAND stacks, 3 TB/s bandwidth, UCIe
The specification is here, but what about the interest?