With sequential read speed of up to 10,300 MB/s and sequential write speed of up to 10,000 MB/s, along with random read and write performance reaching up to 1.4 million and 1.3 million IOPS respectively, the KIOXIA BG8 Series enables responsive system performance across a wide range of client workloads.

Nextorage has announced the launch of its G Series EEA solid-state drives, available in four capacity options, including 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB. It features a PCIe Gen4 × 4 interface and utilizes 3D QLC NAND flash Memory while its overall architecture adopts a DRAM-less HMB+SLC Cache design. Although Nextorage provides in-warranty write endurance of no less than 400 TBW per TB for the G Series EEA SSDs, the warranty period is only one year.

JEDEC previewed a set of new features planned for incorporation into the next version of its JESD209‑6 LPDDR6 standard. It has been working to enhance the next version of the standard to extend LPDDR6 beyond mobile platforms to support selected data center and accelerated computing workloads. Planned features for the upcoming LPDDR6 update include as follows: narrower per-die interface (x6) enabling higher capacities; flexible metadata carve‑out intended to minimize impact to peak data throughput; 512 GB density on the horizon; LPDDR6 SOCAMM2 module standard in development. In addition, JEDEC is also nearing completion of a standard for LPDDR6 Processing‑in‑Memory (LPDDR6 PIM) technology.

On April 21, Kioxia announced the launch of its EG7 series solid state drives (SSDs) for PC OEM customers. As the company's first client solution based on BiCS8 QLC technology, the DRAM-less KIOXIA EG7 Series leverages mature Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology, supports PCIe® 4.0 specification compliant and incorporates NVMe™ 2.0d support. It is available in three capacities, including 512GB, 1024GB, and 2048GB, with maximum sequential read and write speeds of 7,000 MB/s and 6,200 MB/s, respectively. The EG7 Series is currently sampling to select PC OEM customers, with PC shipments equipped with the SSD expected to begin from the second quarter of 2026 onwards.

Over the past month, trading prices of mainstream consumer-grade SSDs and UDIMMs in the channel retail segment have continued to decline. Lacking genuine buying interest, there are currently no signs of stabilization. The pressure of reverse price spreads (where spot prices fall below procurement costs) in the channel market is intensifying. Coupled with the persistent slow decline in low-end channel resources, channel vendors are offering small price concessions to actual order customers to facilitate transactions. This week, UDIMM and channel SSD prices generally continued to fall.

Recently, China's first domestically developed automotive-grade, advanced-process multi-domain fusion chip, the "Hongqi 1," has been successfully developed. The chip is a joint effort by China FAW and several local tech companies. It achieves hardware-level integration of five major functional domains — including intelligent driving, cockpit infotainment, and body control — marking a critical step forward for China in the field of high-end automotive central compute chips.

April 15 – Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on social platform that the company's next-generation AI5 autonomous driving chip has successfully completed tape-out. Musk expressed gratitude to partners including TSMC and Samsung, and stated that the AI5 "will become one of the highest-volume AI chips in the world." He also revealed that multiple chips, including the AI6 and Dojo 3, are in parallel development.

DJI has unveiled the Osmo Pocket 4, an all-new 1-inch sensor pocket gimbal camera. While retaining the portable form factor of its predecessor, the device features upgraded imaging performance. It supports 4K/240fps high-frame-rate recording, comes with a built-in 107GB storage, and offers ultra-fast export speeds of up to 800MB/s without the need for an additional Memory card. The Osmo Pocket 4 Standard Combo and Ultimate Combo are priced at RMB¥2,999 and RMB¥3,799 respectively.

On April 16, Honor unveiled two laptops, the MagicBook 14/16 2026, which feature the self-developed YOYO Claw on-device AI agent for the first time. The agent can perform complex tasks through natural language commands, while also supporting cross-device sharing and self-evolution with long-term Memory. Additionally, the laptops come with 32GB LPDDR5X DRAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, with prices starting from ¥5,949.15 after government subsidies. MagicBook 14/16 2026 will be available for purchase across all channels starting April 16.

Some traders who previously hoarded inventory at high prices are now eager to sell to recover capital, accelerating shipments at lower prices and causing localized "stampedes" among traders. The Memory spot market is generally chaotic. Despite frequent sell-offs in the channel trading side, the relatively low-priced Memory products have not attracted channel customers to resume stocking. Instead, it has made the market more opaque and customers more cautious. The channel market is enduring a painful period under the continuous impact of trading activities, and prices of Channel SSDs and UDIMMs have generally seen subtle declines this week.

April 15, 2026 – ASML Holding N.V., the global leader in semiconductor equipment, today released its first-quarter 2026 financial results. Driven by sustained investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, the company’s performance exceeded market expectations across the board, and it raised its full-year outlook. ASML reported first-quarter net sales of €8.8 billion (approximately RMB 70.7 billion), net income of €2.8 billion (approximately RMB 22.5 billion), and a gross margin of 53.0%. Due to seasonal factors, revenue declined sequentially from the fourth quarter of 2025, but rose 13.3% year-on-year.

In the first quarter of 2026,Nanya Technology reported revenue of NT$49.087 billion, representing a 63.1% increase quarter-over-quarter and a 582.9% increase year-over-year. Operating net profit was NT$30.111 billion, up 155.6% quarter-over-quarter, marking a return to profitability compared to the same period last year. Dr. Pei-Ing Lee believes that DRAM prices in Q2 will be better than those in Q1, with the increase confirmed to be in the double-digit range. Although future price increases may moderate, the overall upward trend remains solid. In terms of supply and demand dynamics, the current tight supply situation in the DRAM market is expected to continue through 2027.

At the High-Level Forum on Smart Electric Vehicle Development, Shan Jizhang, Founder and CEO of Black Sesame Technologies, fully unveiled the all-new lineup of the Huashan A2000 family to the industry for the first time. The family includes four chips, covering full-scenario computing power needs ranging from AI-enabled cockpits to L4-level Robotaxis. On the core technology front, the A2000 family features a proprietary near-Memory computing architecture, equipped with a 100-megabyte-level dedicated high-speed on-chip cache with 8 TB/s bandwidth, dramatically reducing processing latency. Shan Jizhang stated that the company's business grew by 73.4% in 2025, and is expected to surpass that growth rate in 2026, with chip shipments projected to far exceed 10 million units in 2026.

Maxio Technology announced that it plans to raise up to 2.062 billion yuan through a private placement, which will be used for the R&D project of its next-generation data Memory controller chip series products for data centers and intelligent terminals. It includes enterprise-grade PCIe Gen6 SSD controller chips, enterprise-grade PCIe Gen7 SSD controller chips, consumer-grade PCIe Gen6 SSD controller chips, UFS 5.0 embedded storage controller chips, as well as to supplement working capital.

According to Aju Daily, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have decided to sign 3-5 year long-term supply contracts with major global technology companies, moving away from one-year short-term agreements. Samsung Electronics previously stated that it is pushing to convert its supply contracts from annual or quarterly terms to multi-year agreements lasting three to five years, and is expected to stably supply three-year Memory products to key customers such as Microsoft and Google. It is said that SK hynix is in discussions with Google regarding a five-year long-term supply contract for general-purpose DRAM in order to maximize supply stability. This move aims to establish a stable, high-margin business model through strategic cooperation with customers in the early stages of AI Memory development.