{
  "id": 4838468,
  "title": "CXMT reportedly begins risk production of HBM3E memory in breakthrough for Chinese DRAM production — company could be in mass production in 2027",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/cxmt-reportedly-begins-risk-production-of-hbm3e-memory-in",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-01T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cxmt-reportedly-begins-risk-production-of-hbm3e-memory-in-breakthrough-for-chinese-dram-production-company-could-be-in-mass-production-in-2027"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "China's DRAM leader, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has initiated risk production of HBM3E memory, according to a report by The Information. While CXMT lags behind the top three memory manufacturers in terms of overall technology, the achievement of HBM3E marks their significant technological advancements. (AI data centers are consuming the world's memory and storage supply, and Samsung has unveiled three new next-generation memory technologies for AI data centers.)\n\nThe specifications of CXMT's HBM3E products remain undisclosed due to the nature of risk production. However, HBM3E modules employ a 1,024-bit-wide memory interface, support data transfer rates of up to 9.6 GT/s per pin, and can stack eight or twelve memory devices, providing up to 1.228 TB/s of memory bandwidth when using high-speed bins. The memory capacity varies depending on the number of DRAM dies used in a stack, with 24GB using an eight-die stack and 36GB using a 12-die stack with 24Gb DRAM devices.\n\nSeveral Chinese developers of advanced processors, such as Alibaba Group's T-Head and Cambricon Technologies, are currently evaluating CXMT's HBM3E for their processors, as per the report. If testing and qualification go as planned, these companies could begin incorporating CXMT's HBM3E in commercial products as early as next year. The production of HBM3E by CXMT will be crucial for several reasons, with CXMT's ability to manufacture usable HBM being more important than the HBM3E generation itself.",
  "summary": "CXMT is reportedly sampling its HBM3E memory with Alibaba Group's T-Head and Cambricon Technologies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 5,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September (Summer Zhen/Reuters)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/xiaomi-and-cxmt-say-the-xiaomi-18-fold-smartphone-will-debut-cxmts",
        "published": "2026-08-29T05:35:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/chinas-top-dram-maker-cxmt-sues-pentagon-over-its-blacklisting-argues",
        "published": "2026-08-30T11:30:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: CXMT has begun producing HBM3E memory chips in small quantities and plans to expand production in 2027, a major advance for China's chip industry (The Information)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/sources-cxmt-has-begun-producing-hbm3e-memory-chips-in-small",
        "published": "2026-08-31T14:05:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "China's CXMT makes breakthrough in advanced memory chips: report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/chinas-cxmt-makes-breakthrough-in-advanced-memory-chips-report",
        "published": "2026-09-01T07:45:38.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}