A report by The Information claims that the world’s biggest chipmaker is considering adding memory back into its portfolio, starting with next-generation 3D DRAM. With demand still outpacing supply and prices sky-high, the outlet says it could compete with memory giants Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix to develop and produce 3D DRAM technology that stacks chips vertically for increased bandwidth, capacity, and power efficiency. [Link: TSMC Weighs Making Advanced Memory Chips to Capture More AI Spending | https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tsmc-weighs-making-advanced-memory-chips-capture-ai-spending?rc=v4bmzs | The Information]
    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Sure thing. If you’ve ever purchased Crucial memory, that’s their “consumer” brand, where they make the DIMMs themselves, so you’ll have some of their memory chips. There was a lot of outrage on here that they stopped doing that during the RAM shortage, prioritized filling B2B demand first.

      There are also third-party DIMM manufacturers like PNY (also US-based) that make DIMMs with chips from memory chip manufacturers, and they might be using Micron memory chips as well.

      If you’re on Linux, you can check what’s in your system at the DIMM level without pulling it open with:

      $ sudo dmidecode -t memory

      I don’t know if there’s a way to see where the chips on a third-party DIMM come from — like, potentially Micron, with a third-party manufacturer — without actually looking at the chip.