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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

562 points · 458 comments · giuliomagnifico

  1. ricardobayes · · focus · HN ↗
    The article features a truck that the chips get loaded onto. This quote from Tanenbaum immediately jumped into mind:

    "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

    1. rpozarickij · · focus · HN ↗
      I wanted to mention AWS Snowmobile [0], but after looking it up I found that apparently it was discontinued [1]. It seems that nowadays there are more economical/efficient alternatives (I guess theoretically you could still beat these alternatives in certain metrics, e.g. by using more trucks at once to get more bandwidth).

      [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...

      [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;aws-stops-selling-snowmobile-truck-for-cloud-migrations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;aws-stops-selling-snowmobile...

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