Highlights of the day: New video games consoles to shore up NAND flash demand
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The video games console market is predicted to see distributors launch new units, intensifying competitors towards one another later this 12 months. The eager competitors means robust demand for NAND flash to help the consoles’ giant storage. Meanwhile, silicon wafer provider GlobalWafers stay upbeat in regards to the long-term demand for 12-inch wafers. GlobalWafers has simply damaged floor for development of recent manufacturing amenities in Taiwan. In the server sector, datacenters want extra environment friendly warmth dissipating options. Liquid cooling is the brand new favourite.
NAND flash demand to select up for recreation consoles in 3Q20: With Sony and Microsoft set to quickly roll out their next-generation recreation consoles that includes high-speed and large-capacity SSDs, NAND flash demand for recreation console functions shall be selecting up beginning the third quarter, in accordance with business sources.
GlobalWafers to broaden 12-inch silicon wafer capability in Taiwan: GlobalWafers has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the enlargement of subsidiary Taisil Electronic Materials, and can use offshore capital to fund the enlargement, which is ready to finish inside two years, in accordance with the Taiwan-based silicon wafer firm.
Cloud suppliers to more and more undertake liquid cooling expertise: With energy consumption of servers rising resulting from elevated CPU and GPU performances, conventional air cooling options have gotten much less environment friendly in warmth dissipation, prompting extra cloud computing companies suppliers to improve their machines to the most recent liquid cooling options, in accordance with sources from the server upstream provide chain.
