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Samsung's zNAND-O mock-up shows NAND flash stacked directly on a logic die and linked to an NPU over UCIe. Samsung claims up to 7x read bandwidth and 7x read energy efficiency versus conventional NAND, with mass production targeted for 2028.
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Korea has no Foxconn. But a group of mostly mid-sized companies — Wellmade, KTNF, Solum, Global TopNet, Hanwool, eSlim Korea, Lian System and Elice — is now trying to build the Korean AI server, from the motherboard and chassis to the power supply and the cold plate.
As AI racks push beyond 100 kW and infrastructure requirements evolve at unprecedented speed, interoperability is becoming a strategic necessity. Michael Schill of the Open Compute Project Foundation explains how community-driven open designs are reshaping power, cooling, networking and AI cluster deployment — and why Korea and the broader APAC ecosystem are positioned to play a larger role in defining the next generation of AI infrastructure.
As AI racks approach megawatt-scale power, efficient distribution from the facility to the GPU becomes critical. 800 VDC reduces current, conductor size and power losses, but where should voltage conversion occur? This article compares rack-level, mid-rack and near-load conversion, examining efficiency, complexity and why future AI architectures may move high-ratio DC-DC conversion closer to compute.
Every night, 8 billion people create stories that have never existed. Yet the AI industry is busy mining old books and discarding the paper. What does that give humanity, AI, the Earth or the universe? A column on why the future belongs to people who write down their dreams.
A date-by-date guide to 21 AI, data center and semiconductor events from October to December 2026, including SEDEX, SEMICON West, OCP, SC26, AWS re:Invent and SEMICON Japan, plus corporate events from Samsung SDS, Kakao, NVIDIA, TSMC, Oracle and Microsoft.
The Open Compute Project's flagship event returns to San Jose, California, October 12–15, 2026, now expanded to four days, bringing the global open hardware community together around AI-era data center infrastructure. Event details and registration
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An Asian industry perspective on the infrastructure challenge behind AI expansion. Oliver Lien examines how power availability, rising rack densi…
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Generative AI is moving beyond chatbots and into the industrial stack. Rajnish Pandey explores how AI is adding reasoning and orchestration above…
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What makes data center safety different from conventional field service? A critical-facility engineer explains why redundancy is about more than …
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As generative AI makes creative production almost limitless, the scarce resource is no longer output but judgment. Vedran Obradović explores why …
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