Intel ships Optane chips to partners
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Thanks for the memory 

Chipzilla has revealed that it has started shipping its Optane memory DIMMs to partners for testing.

Plextor shows plenty of SSDs at CES 2017 show
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Including an NVMe PCIe M8Se SSD series

Plextor came to the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 in style, unveiling a couple of new SSDs including the high-end NVMe PCIe M8Se series that will be available in both M.2 and half-height PCIe card form factors.

Tsinghua expands IC plants
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Investing $70 billion 

China's Tsinghua Unigroup is set to put the fear of god into the chip industry by rapidly expanding its chipmaking capability.

4GB DDR3 module prices increase
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Up by nearly a third

Beancounters at DRAMeXchange have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that contract prices for 4GB DDR3 modules have risen by nearly a third.

G.Skill announces new DDR4 memory for Intel Z270
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Brings tighter latencies

G.Skill has announced its new DDR4 memory specifications designed for Intel's new 7th generation Core processors and Z270 motherboards, which will be a part of its well-known Trident Z series.