Chips Out Loud Micron Technology

Guests Abe Tarapani, CEO, and Marshall Burke, Co-Founder of Atlas AI rejoin the podcast for a continuing conversation about the symbiosis between the companies as an investment of Micron Ventures. Jim Greene explores the impact of the CHIPS Act on infrastructure in the US and how Atlas AI plays a role for companies like Micron in that effort.
”Think about just the visionary nature of these investments, and how substantial they have the opportunity to be,” Abe imagines, “There is an opportunity for companies … to proactively think about how to direct the investment in a way that drives growth in the most sustainable way in these areas, to identify potential areas, to build capacity, whether that be human capacity or infrastructure capacity proactively, to mitigate unintended consequences of these investments, and to do it in a way that's entirely seamless with the core manufacturing investment and growth plans of the business.”
Jim investigates further about the awareness of impact when planning projects at a global scale and the lessons learned by AtlasAI from previous deployments in Africa.
Check out the new technology at www.micron.com and learn more about Atlas AI at atlasai.co .
Check out the recent publication in Nature: Using machine learning to assess the livelihood impact of electricity access at https://rdcu.be/cZOHV .
 

The Chips Out Loud podcast greets new guests Abe Tarapani, CEO, and Marshall Burke, Co-Founder of Atlas AI. Jim Greene discusses the mission alignment between the companies, with Atlas AI as an investment of Micron Ventures.
”I was wandering around in Sub-Saharan Africa, working with a number of organizations, both big and small, trying to understand how they could improve livelihood outcomes among lower income populations in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Marshall begins, “it was really rich data, but it was fundamentally just not very scalable and it got very frustrating for me in that we could only talk to a few households per day and after a few months, I would have a couple 100 households if I was lucky. And it just didn't feel like a scalable way to learn about the world.”
Jim investigates further about the evolution of Atlas AI, the customers who utilize geospatial analytics, and the use cases across non-profits, infrastructure, education and healthcare. Check out the new technology at www.micron.com and learn more about Atlas AI at atlasai.co . Check out the recent publication in Nature: Using machine learning to assess the livelihood impact of electricity access at https://rdcu.be/cZOHV .

As the supercomputing conference SC22 takes place in Dallas, Texas, Steve Pawlowski, Corporate Vice President Advanced Memory Systems, joins host Jim Greene on the newest edition of the Chips Out Loud podcast to discuss topics and trends in High Performance Computing.
”If you really try to break out the cost of the different compute structures versus the cost of moving data in order to be able to do a single floating point operation, you spend about 100 times more energy doing the data movement than you do actually doing compute, “ Steve confides, “And so the idea was, okay, instead of moving data to where the compute is, we're getting massive amounts of data and we keep the data resident and do what we can to move the computing closer and closer to the data to improve the bandwidth so that we can improve the performance of these systems and to lower the energy so that we can improve the energy efficiency as well.” 
Jim and Steve continue to discuss current challenges for high performance computing centers, Micron’s new technology offerings in the arena, and a future-looking assessment of the evolution of HPC.
Check out the new technology at www.micron.com .

Malcolm Humphrey joins host Jim Greene on the latest installment of the Chips Out Loud podcast. Malcolm serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Compute DRAM at Micron. Today the excitement surrounds the impact of the new generation DDR5 memory for data center customers. 
“DDR5 refers to Double Data Rate Generation 5 Dynamic Random-Access Memory, which is a mouthful,” Malcolm confides, “ I just call it D5 for short. But really what it is, it's the newest generation of high-speed memory standard, optimized for compute applications, and in particular, the data center.”
Jim investigates further into the system’s origins, as well as its components and development cycle. Malcolm shares examples of the promise the technology holds for data center and cloud workloads. They conclude with a look at the future of state-of-the-art memory offerings at Micron.
Check out the new technology at www.micron.com/DDR5 and learn more about Micron at www.micron.com/careers .

On the heels of the news that Micron has begun shipping QS-sampling LPDDR5X components developed on the new 1-beta process node to its smartphone customers, host Jim Greene welcomes Thy Tran, Vice President DRAM Process Integration, to the Chips Out Loud Podcast to discuss the emergent technology.
“One beta technology is our next generation of DRAM … which enables further shrink of our memory array cell size, as well as the rest of the circuitry in the die,” Thy reveals. “Besides over 35% memory bit density gain, our customers can expect approximately 15% in power savings and continuous node-to-node performance improvement.”
Ty further expounds on the innovations enabled by 1-beta and the effort by the DRAM team at Micron that’s behind the new offering. Jim queries Thy on the leading-edge process technology involved and the partnerships that make DRAM node advancement possible now and in the future.
Check out the new technologies at www.micron.com and learn more about Micron at www.micron.com/careers  .

Ross Dermott, Vice President, Mobile Product Line Management, Mobile Business Unit at Micron Technology joins Chips Out Loud host Jim Greene to talk about the new mNAND solutions for top-of-line smartphones, its intelligent vertical integration, and the roadmap for future-proofing the mobile experience. 
“The NAND-based products that we're building for mobile are a category called Managed NAND,” Dermott explains. “Managed NAND combines NAND technology with a controller and firmware. And that controller and firmware are really what help optimize the performance of that NAND device.” 
Host Jim Greene delves deeper with Ross on the micro and macro trends driving the market including short form video, mobile gaming, workflow and metavers, and how his team constantly analyzes the user experience to ensure Micron’s Memory and Storage solutions can further enhance the mobile experience for years to come.
Check out the new technologies at www.micron.com/mobile  and learn more about Micron at www.micron.com/careers  .