Gavin Bonshor

Both Samsung and SK Hynix have working LPDDR6 silicon. Just seven months after the JEDEC specification was ratified. The effective bandwidth at 14.4 Gbps is 38.4 GB/s per die. SK Hynix chased bandwidth, Samsung chased efficiency. The shmoo plots tell the story on where the silicon is right now. This is just the first generation of LPDDR6 silicon.

Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan's most powerful AI supercomputer. The project, centered on the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Supercomputing Center, will be underpinned by Nvidia's Blackwell architecture to deliver over 90 exaFLOPS of "AI computing power" which these days is code for "ever-lower precision". In this case, FP4.

Five things you need to know before reading: This is not a GPU, and it is not trying to be. Spyre is a 75 W single-slot PCIe inference card, designed to fit in IBM Z and Power systems. Spyre is already shipping in systems. This overview is a summary of a detailed technical disclosure at ISSCC 2026. The 8-year development timeline is real and deliberate. IBM ran five generations of silicon across three process nodes before releasing the production chip.