By Thomas Coughlin
Publication Date: 2026-06-12 16:23:00
High-tech data center with server racks
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Catch up on some recent storage industry announcements from Samsung, Kioxia and Peak:AIO and Los Alamos Laboratories.
Samsung said it has started shipping 12-layer HBM4E samples to major global customers. Earlier this year, the company began mass production of its HBM4 product. High-bandwidth memory, HBM, stacks DRAM on top of each other with massively parallel connectivity to maximize data bandwidth. HBM memory is used alongside GPUs and other domain-specific processors in a chiplet architecture, storing data to support AI training and inference workloads. Below are the front and rear of the HBM HBM4e.
HBM4E samples showing the front and rear of the HBM
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Currently, HBM memory is in high demand, there is not enough production to meet that demand, resulting in high prices and large users, such as hyperscale data centers, have long-term contracts with suppliers to obtain the HBM they…
