Weekly recap · Every Friday
News
The week in NAND, DRAM, SSDs, standards and the memory market. Each item links to the company, standards body, filing or paper it comes from; a press report appears only when an outlet had the news first, and says so.
Latest · week endingNovember 6, 2026Covers October 31 to November 6, 2026 · 22 items
Memory Moves Onto Logic, Kioxia Stays Out of HBF, and DRAM Costs Reach Hobby Boards
- Solidigm explains why its high capacity QLC drives stay on floating gate NAND
- Qualcomm says its first stacked HBC memory silicon works in the lab
- Marvell agrees to acquire Lumentum in an all stock deal
Every week
October 2026
- Week ending Oct 30 · 17 itemsRecord Memory Earnings, Solidigm Weighs US Capacity, and Kioxia Folds In a Fab
- Week ending Oct 23 · 17 itemsSolidigm Drops Its IPO, WD Posts a Strong Quarter, and SSD Wear Meets AI Caches
- Week ending Oct 16 · 13 itemsCXL Memory and Liquid Cooled SSDs Lead the Week, with Flash Moving into Compute
- Week ending Oct 9 · 16 itemsSamsung Signals a Strong Quarter While NAND Papers Look Past Today's Charge Trap Cells
- Week ending Oct 2 · 15 itemsMicron Closes a Record Year, SK hynix Answers on Solidigm, JEDEC Adds a Standard
September 2026
- Week ending Sep 25 · 8 itemsCXMT Starts a New DRAM Platform, Samsung Validates LPDDR6, and Flash Gets Papers
- Week ending Sep 18 · 10 itemsSK hynix and Intel Talks, Solidigm Eyes a US NAND Fab, and CXMT Looks at Flash
- Week ending Sep 11 · 12 itemsCXMT Ships LPDDR6, SK hynix Charts Its Memory Path, and HBF Research Piles Up
- Week ending Sep 4 · 9 itemsSamsung Sketches HBM5 and zHBM, and Micron Frames the Agentic Memory Wall
August 2026
- Week ending Aug 28 · 12 itemsHot Chips Turns to HBM Base Dies, Nvidia Adds NVHBM, and Kioxia and Sandisk Plan More Fabs
- Week ending Aug 21 · 6 itemsSK hynix Returns Cash to Holders, Micron Opens a Research Hub, and Sandisk Adds NAS SSDs
- Week ending Aug 14 · 9 itemsKioxia and Sandisk Show a New QLC Generation, and Sandisk Sets Its Long Term Plan
- Week ending Aug 7 · 14 itemsFMS 2026 Brings High Bandwidth Flash Specs, PCIe 6.0 Controllers and New QLC NAND
July 2026
- Week ending Jul 31 · 15 itemsRecord Memory Results from Samsung, SK hynix and Kioxia, and NVMe Ships a Spec Wave
- Week ending Jul 24 · 9 itemsAMD Launches HBM4 Accelerators, TrendForce Sees NAND Easing, and Korea Teases Memory Deals
- Week ending Jul 17 · 9 itemsJEDEC Publishes SPHBM4, Micron Locks In Car Supply, and Silicon Motion Eyes PCIe Gen7
- Week ending Jul 10 · 8 itemsSamsung Ships a PCIe 6.0 SSD, SK hynix Lists in New York, Micron Widens US Plans
- Week ending Jul 3 · 8 itemsKioxia and Sandisk Start 10th Generation Flash, and SK hynix Maps Its Next Fabs