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DDR4 Costs 60% More Than DDR5 on One Board of Five

TrendForce's spot board puts DDR4 at a 60 percent premium over DDR5. Its four other price layers do not agree, and one of them reverses the gap.

HardwareSep 3

The 2nm Node Has a 16nm Gate and Four Companies Behind It

The gate is 16 nanometres long. An EUV scanner averaged €237m last year. Four companies worldwide can still afford to build at the leading edge.

HardwareSep 3

Acer's 1,000Hz Predator Lists No Grey-to-Grey Spec

Flicker fusion saturates near 100Hz, so the eye was never the constraint on a 1,000Hz monitor. Pixel response is: one measured panel averaged 6.85ms.

HardwareSep 3

Copper's One-Metre Limit Is Pushing Optics Into the Package

IEEE's 200G objectives give copper a metre and fibre two kilometres, and co-packaged optics lives in the gap. Broadcom's 70% and a paper's 18% both hold.