SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 SSD with 238L NAND Spotted at GTC
SK hynix is set to unveil their first Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup shortly, based on the products at display in their GTC 2024 booth. The Platinum P51 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD will take over flagship duties from the Platinum P41 that has been serving the market for more than a year.
Similar to the Gold P31 and the Platinum P41, the Platinum P51 also uses an in-house SSD controller. The key updates are the move to PCIe Gen5 and the use of SK hynix's 238L TLC NAND. Other details are scarce, and we have reached out for additional information.
| SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 NVMe SSD Specifications | ||||
| Capacity | 500 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | |
| Controller | SK hynix In-House (Alistar) | |||
| NAND Flash | SK hynix 238L 3D TLC NAND at ?? MT/s ('4D' with CMOS circuitry under the NAND as per SK hynix marketing) | |||
| Form-Factor, Interface | M.2-2280, PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0 | |||
| Sequential Read | 13500 MB/s | |||
| Sequential Write | 11500 MB/s | |||
| Random Read IOPS | TBD | |||
| Random Write IOPS | TBD | |||
| SLC Caching | Yes | |||
| TCG Opal Encryption | TBD | |||
| Warranty | TBD | |||
| Write Endurance | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
Only the peak sequential access numbers were available at the GTC booth, indicating that the drive's firmware is still undergoing tweaks. It is also unclear how these numbers are going to vary based on capacity. Availability and pricing are also not public yet.
This is a significant launch for the Gen5 consumer SSD market, where the number of available options are quite limited. The Phison E26 controller and Micron's B58R NAND combination is already in its second generation (with the NAND operating at 2400 MT/s in the newest avatar), but other vertically integrated vendors such as Samsung, Western Digital / Kioxia, and SK hynix (till now) are focusing more on the Gen4 market which has much higher adoption.
We will update the piece with additional information once the specifications are officially available.
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<td class="tlgrey" style="vertical-align:middle;">Capacity</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">500 GB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">1 TB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">2 TB</td>
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<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix In-House (Alistar)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix 238L 3D TLC NAND at ?? MT/s ('4D' with CMOS circuitry under the NAND as per SK hynix marketing)</td>
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<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Read</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">13500 MB/s</td>
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<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Write</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">11500 MB/s</td>
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<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Read IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
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<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Write IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">SLC Caching</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">TCG Opal Encryption</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Warranty</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Write Endurance</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<p>Only the peak sequential access numbers were available at the GTC booth, indicating that the drive's firmware is still undergoing tweaks. It is also unclear how these numbers are going to vary based on capacity. Availability and pricing are also not public yet.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_Crop_575px.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>This is a significant launch for the Gen5 consumer SSD market, where the number of available options are quite limited. The Phison E26 controller and Micron's B58R NAND combination is already in its second generation (with the NAND operating at 2400 MT/s in the newest avatar), but other vertically integrated vendors such as Samsung, Western Digital / Kioxia, and SK hynix (till now) are focusing more on the Gen4 market which has much higher adoption.</p>
<p>We will update the piece with additional information once the specifications are officially available.</p>
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<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="tgrey">
<td align="center" colspan="4" style="vertical-align:middle;">SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 NVMe SSD Specifications</td>
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<td class="tlgrey" style="vertical-align:middle;">Capacity</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">500 GB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">1 TB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">2 TB</td>
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<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Controller</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix In-House (Alistar)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">NAND Flash</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix 238L 3D TLC NAND at ?? MT/s ('4D' with CMOS circuitry under the NAND as per SK hynix marketing)</td>
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<td class="tlgrey">Form-Factor, Interface</td>
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<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Read</td>
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<td class="tlgrey">Random Write IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
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<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">SLC Caching</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">TCG Opal Encryption</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Warranty</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Write Endurance</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Only the peak sequential access numbers were available at the GTC booth, indicating that the drive's firmware is still undergoing tweaks. It is also unclear how these numbers are going to vary based on capacity. Availability and pricing are also not public yet.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_Crop_575px.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>This is a significant launch for the Gen5 consumer SSD market, where the number of available options are quite limited. The Phison E26 controller and Micron's B58R NAND combination is already in its second generation (with the NAND operating at 2400 MT/s in the newest avatar), but other vertically integrated vendors such as Samsung, Western Digital / Kioxia, and SK hynix (till now) are focusing more on the Gen4 market which has much higher adoption.</p>
<p>We will update the piece with additional information once the specifications are officially available.</p>
</p> Storage){kind=link}
![](https://web.whatsapp.com/send?text=SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 SSD with 238L NAND Spotted at GTC <p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_575px.jpg" alt="" /></a></p><p><p>SK hynix is set to unveil their first Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup shortly, based on the products at display in their GTC 2024 booth. The Platinum P51 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD will take over flagship duties from the <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/17393">Platinum P41</a> that has been serving the market for more than a year.</p>
<p>Similar to the Gold P31 and the Platinum P41, the Platinum P51 also uses an in-house SSD controller. The key updates are the move to PCIe Gen5 and the use of SK hynix's 238L TLC NAND. Other details are scarce, and we have reached out for additional information.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="tgrey">
<td align="center" colspan="4" style="vertical-align:middle;">SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 NVMe SSD Specifications</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tlblue">
<td class="tlgrey" style="vertical-align:middle;">Capacity</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">500 GB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">1 TB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">2 TB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Controller</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix In-House (Alistar)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">NAND Flash</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix 238L 3D TLC NAND at ?? MT/s ('4D' with CMOS circuitry under the NAND as per SK hynix marketing)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Form-Factor, Interface</td>
<td align="center" colspan="4" rowspan="1">M.2-2280, PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Read</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">13500 MB/s</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Write</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">11500 MB/s</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Read IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Write IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">SLC Caching</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">TCG Opal Encryption</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Warranty</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Write Endurance</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Only the peak sequential access numbers were available at the GTC booth, indicating that the drive's firmware is still undergoing tweaks. It is also unclear how these numbers are going to vary based on capacity. Availability and pricing are also not public yet.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_Crop_575px.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>This is a significant launch for the Gen5 consumer SSD market, where the number of available options are quite limited. The Phison E26 controller and Micron's B58R NAND combination is already in its second generation (with the NAND operating at 2400 MT/s in the newest avatar), but other vertically integrated vendors such as Samsung, Western Digital / Kioxia, and SK hynix (till now) are focusing more on the Gen4 market which has much higher adoption.</p>
<p>We will update the piece with additional information once the specifications are officially available.</p>
</p> Storage | https://compbuddey.blogspot.com/2024/04/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with_5.html){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 SSD with 238L NAND Spotted at GTC <p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_575px.jpg" alt="" /></a></p><p><p>SK hynix is set to unveil their first Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup shortly, based on the products at display in their GTC 2024 booth. The Platinum P51 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD will take over flagship duties from the <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/17393">Platinum P41</a> that has been serving the market for more than a year.</p>
<p>Similar to the Gold P31 and the Platinum P41, the Platinum P51 also uses an in-house SSD controller. The key updates are the move to PCIe Gen5 and the use of SK hynix's 238L TLC NAND. Other details are scarce, and we have reached out for additional information.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="tgrey">
<td align="center" colspan="4" style="vertical-align:middle;">SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 NVMe SSD Specifications</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tlblue">
<td class="tlgrey" style="vertical-align:middle;">Capacity</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">500 GB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">1 TB</td>
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;">2 TB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Controller</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix In-House (Alistar)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">NAND Flash</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">SK hynix 238L 3D TLC NAND at ?? MT/s ('4D' with CMOS circuitry under the NAND as per SK hynix marketing)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Form-Factor, Interface</td>
<td align="center" colspan="4" rowspan="1">M.2-2280, PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Read</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">13500 MB/s</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Sequential Write</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">11500 MB/s</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Read IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Random Write IOPS</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">SLC Caching</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">TCG Opal Encryption</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Warranty</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3" rowspan="1">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tlgrey">Write Endurance</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
<td align="center">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Only the peak sequential access numbers were available at the GTC booth, indicating that the drive's firmware is still undergoing tweaks. It is also unclear how these numbers are going to vary based on capacity. Availability and pricing are also not public yet.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/21313/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with-238l-nand-spotted-at-gtc"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/21313/SKh_P51_GTC_Crop_575px.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>This is a significant launch for the Gen5 consumer SSD market, where the number of available options are quite limited. The Phison E26 controller and Micron's B58R NAND combination is already in its second generation (with the NAND operating at 2400 MT/s in the newest avatar), but other vertically integrated vendors such as Samsung, Western Digital / Kioxia, and SK hynix (till now) are focusing more on the Gen4 market which has much higher adoption.</p>
<p>We will update the piece with additional information once the specifications are officially available.</p>
</p> Storage&body=https://compbuddey.blogspot.com/2024/04/sk-hynix-platinum-p51-gen5-ssd-with_5.html){kind=link}
At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by a dedicated RAID card, a simple write request in, say, a RAID 5 array would involve two reads and two writes to different drives. In cases where there is no hardware acceleration, the data from the reads needs to travel all the way back to the CPU and main memory for further processing before the writes can be done.
Kioxia has proposed the use of the PCIe direct memory access feature along with the SSD controller's controller memory buffer (CMB) to avoid the movement of data up to the CPU and back. The required parity computation is done by an accelerator block resident within the SSD controller.
In Kioxia's PoC implementation, the DMA engine can access the entire host address space (including the peer SSD's BAR-mapped CMB), allowing it to receive and transfer data as required from neighboring SSDs on the bus. Kioxia noted that their offload PoC saw close to 50% reduction in CPU utilization and upwards of 90% reduction in system DRAM utilization compared to software RAID done on the CPU. The proposed offload scheme can also handle scrubbing operations without taking up the host CPU cycles for the parity computation task.
Kioxia has already taken steps to contribute these features to the NVM Express working group. If accepted, the proposed offload scheme will be part of a standard that could become widely available across multiple SSD vendors.
Storage
Intel Sells Its Arm Shares, Reduces Stakes in Other Companies
Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced its holdings in Astera Labs, all as part of a broader effort to manage costs and recover cash amid significant financial challenges.
The sale of Intel's 1.18 million shares in Arm Holdings, as reported in a recent SEC filing, comes at a time when the company is struggling with substantial financial losses. Despite the $147 million generated from the sale, Intel reported a $120 million net loss on its equity investments for the quarter, which is a part of a larger $1.6 billion loss that Intel faced during this period.
In addition to selling its stake in Arm, Intel also exited its investment in ZeroFox and reduced its involvement with Astera Labs, a company known for developing connectivity platforms for enterprise hardware. These moves are in line with Intel's strategy to reduce costs and stabilize its financial position as it faces ongoing market challenges.
Despite the divestment, Intel's past investment in Arm was likely driven by strategic considerations. Arm Holdings is a significant force in the semiconductor industry, with its designs powering most mobile devices, and, for obvious reasons, Intel would like to address these. Intel and Arm are also collaborating on datacenter platforms tailored for Intel's 18A process technology. Additionally, Arm might view Intel as a potential licensee for its technologies and a valuable partner for other companies that license Arm's designs.
Intel's investment in Astera Labs was also a strategic one as the company probably wanted to secure steady supply of smart retimers, smart cable modems, and CXL memory controller, which are used in volumes in datacenters and Intel is certainly interested in selling as many datacenter CPUs as possible.
Intel's financial struggles were highlighted earlier this month when the company released a disappointing earnings report, which led to a 33% drop in its stock value, erasing billions of dollars of capitalization. To counter these difficulties, Intel announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs and implement other expense reductions. The company has also suspended its dividend, signaling the depth of its efforts to conserve cash and focus on recovery. When it comes to divestment of Arm stock, the need for immediate financial stabilization has presumably taken precedence, leading to the decision.
CPUs
Kioxia Demonstrates Optical Interface SSDs for Data Centers
A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year's FMS, Kioxia had their optical interface on display.
For this demonstration, Kioxia took its existing CM7 enterprise SSD and created an optical interface for it. A PCIe card with on-board optics developed by Kyocera is installed in the server slot. An optical interface allows data transfer over long distances (it was 40m in the demo, but Kioxia promises lengths of up to 100m for the cable in the future). This allows the storage to be kept in a separate room with minimal cooling requirements compared to the rack with the CPUs and GPUs. Disaggregation of different server components will become an option as very high throughput interfaces such as PCIe 7.0 (with 128 GT/s rates) become available.
The demonstration of the optical SSD showed a slight loss in IOPS performance, but a significant advantage in the latency metric over the shipping enterprise SSD behind a copper network link. Obviously, there are advantages in wiring requirements and signal integrity maintenance with optical links.
Being a proof-of-concept demonstration, we do see the requirement for an industry-standard approach if this were to gain adoption among different datacenter vendors. The PCI-SIG optical workgroup will need to get its act together soon to create a standards-based approach to this problem.
Storage
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – world of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.
For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor. It’s fittingly poetic, but it is also a testament to the fact that we’ve spent the last 27 years doing what we love, covering the chips that are the lifeblood of the computing industry.
A lot of things have changed in the last quarter-century – in 1997 NVIDIA had yet to even coin the term “GPU” – and we’ve been fortunate to watch the world of hardware continue to evolve over the time period. We’ve gone from boxy desktop computers and laptops that today we’d charitably classify as portable desktops, to pocket computers where even the cheapest budget device puts the fastest PC of 1997 to shame.
The years have also brought some monumental changes to the world of publishing. AnandTech was hardly the first hardware enthusiast website, nor will we be the last. But we were fortunate to thrive in the past couple of decades, when so many of our peers did not, thanks to a combination of hard work, strategic investments in people and products, even more hard work, and the support of our many friends, colleagues, and readers.
Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech to wrap up its work, and let the next generation of tech journalists take their place within the zeitgeist.
It has been my immense privilege to write for AnandTech for the past 19 years – and to manage it as its editor-in-chief for the past decade. And while I carry more than a bit of remorse in being AnandTech’s final boss, I can at least take pride in everything we’ve accomplished over the years, whether it’s lauding some legendary products, writing technology primers that still remain relevant today, or watching new stars rise in expected places. There is still more that I had wanted AnandTech to do, but after 21,500 articles, this was a good start.
And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. Even without new articles to add to the collection, I expect that many of the things we’ve written over the past couple of decades will remain relevant for years to come – and remain accessible just as long.
The AnandTech Forums will also continue to be operated by Future’s community team and our dedicated troop of moderators. With forum threads going back to 1999 (and some active members just as long), the forums have a history almost as long and as storied as AnandTech itself (wounded monitor children, anyone?). So even when AnandTech is no longer publishing articles, we’ll still have a place for everyone to talk about the latest in technology – and have those discussions last longer than 48 hours.
Finally, for everyone who still needs their technical writing fix, our formidable opposition of the last 27 years and fellow Future brand, Tom’s Hardware, is continuing to cover the world of technology. There are a couple of familiar AnandTech faces already over there providing their accumulated expertise, and the site will continue doing its best to provide a written take on technology news.
So Many Thank Yous
As I look back on everything AnandTech has accomplished over the past 27 years, there are more than a few people, groups, and companies that I would like to thank on behalf of both myself and AnandTech as a whole.
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Intel Sells Its Arm Shares, Reduces Stakes in Other Companies
Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced its holdings in Astera Labs, all as part of a broader effort to manage costs and recover cash amid significant financial challenges.
The sale of Intel's 1.18 million shares in Arm Holdings, as reported in a recent SEC filing, comes at a time when the company is struggling with substantial financial losses. Despite the $147 million generated from the sale, Intel reported a $120 million net loss on its equity investments for the quarter, which is a part of a larger $1.6 billion loss that Intel faced during this period.
In addition to selling its stake in Arm, Intel also exited its investment in ZeroFox and reduced its involvement with Astera Labs, a company known for developing connectivity platforms for enterprise hardware. These moves are in line with Intel's strategy to reduce costs and stabilize its financial position as it faces ongoing market challenges.
Despite the divestment, Intel's past investment in Arm was likely driven by strategic considerations. Arm Holdings is a significant force in the semiconductor industry, with its designs powering most mobile devices, and, for obvious reasons, Intel would like to address these. Intel and Arm are also collaborating on datacenter platforms tailored for Intel's 18A process technology. Additionally, Arm might view Intel as a potential licensee for its technologies and a valuable partner for other companies that license Arm's designs.
Intel's investment in Astera Labs was also a strategic one as the company probably wanted to secure steady supply of smart retimers, smart cable modems, and CXL memory controller, which are used in volumes in datacenters and Intel is certainly interested in selling as many datacenter CPUs as possible.
Intel's financial struggles were highlighted earlier this month when the company released a disappointing earnings report, which led to a 33% drop in its stock value, erasing billions of dollars of capitalization. To counter these difficulties, Intel announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs and implement other expense reductions. The company has also suspended its dividend, signaling the depth of its efforts to conserve cash and focus on recovery. When it comes to divestment of Arm stock, the need for immediate financial stabilization has presumably taken precedence, leading to the decision.
CPUs
Intel Sells Its Arm Shares, Reduces Stakes in Other Companies
Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced its holdings in Astera Labs, all as part of a broader effort to manage costs and recover cash amid significant financial challenges.
The sale of Intel's 1.18 million shares in Arm Holdings, as reported in a recent SEC filing, comes at a time when the company is struggling with substantial financial losses. Despite the $147 million generated from the sale, Intel reported a $120 million net loss on its equity investments for the quarter, which is a part of a larger $1.6 billion loss that Intel faced during this period.
In addition to selling its stake in Arm, Intel also exited its investment in ZeroFox and reduced its involvement with Astera Labs, a company known for developing connectivity platforms for enterprise hardware. These moves are in line with Intel's strategy to reduce costs and stabilize its financial position as it faces ongoing market challenges.
Despite the divestment, Intel's past investment in Arm was likely driven by strategic considerations. Arm Holdings is a significant force in the semiconductor industry, with its designs powering most mobile devices, and, for obvious reasons, Intel would like to address these. Intel and Arm are also collaborating on datacenter platforms tailored for Intel's 18A process technology. Additionally, Arm might view Intel as a potential licensee for its technologies and a valuable partner for other companies that license Arm's designs.
Intel's investment in Astera Labs was also a strategic one as the company probably wanted to secure steady supply of smart retimers, smart cable modems, and CXL memory controller, which are used in volumes in datacenters and Intel is certainly interested in selling as many datacenter CPUs as possible.
Intel's financial struggles were highlighted earlier this month when the company released a disappointing earnings report, which led to a 33% drop in its stock value, erasing billions of dollars of capitalization. To counter these difficulties, Intel announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs and implement other expense reductions. The company has also suspended its dividend, signaling the depth of its efforts to conserve cash and focus on recovery. When it comes to divestment of Arm stock, the need for immediate financial stabilization has presumably taken precedence, leading to the decision.
CPUs
The Endorfy Fortis 5 Dual Fan CPU Cooler Review: Towering Value Standard CPU coolers, while adequate for managing basic thermal loads, often fall short in terms of noise reduction and superior cooling efficiency. This limitation drives advanced users and system builders to seek aftermarket solutions tailored to their specific needs. The high-end aftermarket cooler market is highly competitive, with manufacturers striving to offer products with exceptional performance.
Endorfy, previously known as SilentiumPC, is a Polish manufacturer that has undergone a significant transformation to expand its presence in global markets. The brand is known for delivering high-performance cooling solutions with a strong focus on balancing efficiency and affordability. By rebranding as Endorfy, the company aims to enter premium market segments while continuing to offer reliable, high-quality cooling products.
SilentiumPC became very popular in the value/mainstream segments of the PC market with their products, the spearhead of which probably was the Fera 5 cooler that we reviewed a little over two years ago and had a remarkable value for money. Today’s review places Endorfy’s largest CPU cooler, the Fortis 5 Dual Fan, on our laboratory test bench. The Fortis 5 is the largest CPU air cooler the company currently offers and is significantly more expensive than the Fera 5, yet it still is a single-tower cooler that strives to strike a balance between value, compatibility, and performance.
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