The Cyberspace Administration of China has warned that it will not tolerate companies purchasing products from Micron Technology due to concerns of significant security threats to its critical infrastructures. The ban was placed as a protective measure against any network security glitches that may endanger national information security. Security experts raised questions about China’s true motives, while some critics suggested it was a backlash from the US’s firm stance on operations from Chinese companies. Reports have shown that the ban would have no significant impact as China can acquire similar memory chips from South Korea.
Micron Technology to Benefit from Growth in AI Market
According to an article on Motley Fool, technology manufacturer Micron is expected to benefit significantly from the growth of the global artificial intelligence market. Due to the increasing need for large data sets for the training and handling of AI algorithms, cloud providers are expected to invest significantly in higher quality memory solutions. The expansion of AI into different sectors such as finance, transportation, healthcare, and others are expected to require more investment in memory solutions, while AI-enabled applications such as autonomous vehicles will require memory for data processing and storage. Micron Technology is the only Western memory producer globally, making it strategically critical to both the United States and Europe. Additionally, the current trend towards deglobalisation is likely to help Micron with government policies such as subsidies to re-establish local memory production.
China Conducting Cybersecurity Review of Micron Technology
China has launched a cybersecurity review of US memory chipmaker Micron Technology over fears of the network’s security risks that may jeopardise national security. The review is intended to ensure supply chain integrity of China’s national information infrastructure and came after other similar actions against American tech companies. Micron Technology responded by stating that it was in touch with the Chinese Cyberspace Administration and would stick to its security promises. The move is speculated to exacerbate tensions between the US and China over issues related to Taiwan. Recently Japan added to the restrictions on exporting chip-cutting technologies targeted at Huawei over alleged theft of trade secrets from the US.
Micron Technology Launches 6500 ION 30.72TB TLC Arrayed SSD
Micron has brought its 6500 ION 30.72TB TLC Arrayed SSD to the market for competition against data centre offerings from QLC. With 232-Layer TLC flash, Micron positioned the new drive as an alternative to high-density QLC data centre SSDs, offering better performance, endurance, read quality, drive fill and real workload performance than comparable QLC SSDs from its competitors, but with similar pricing. The superior density enabled by 232-Layers allows Micron to offer TLC flash at a similar price per gigabyte to that of current 144-Layer QLC flash. TLC SSDs offer higher endurance, more power efficiency, and better performance than QLC SSDs. Micron designed the 6500 ION 30.72TB to redefine affordable, scalable NVMe storage for data centres.
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