#tsv 33

[tsvwords]

And in the quiet, we hear FAULKNER, whispering the prayer himself - but he says the words with love, and joy.

"I curse her. I curse her. I curse her."

He begins to half-chuckle under his breath as he says it, rejoicing in private as he participates.

And we hear the sound of the Drowning Song rise once more.

— Chapter 33: And Where Once Its Howling Forebears Walked.

[theboombutton]

GOD I need to stop listening to The Silt Verses right before bed

Not cause it's scary - I mean, it is scary in a way, in several ways, and frankly this episode (33) had its goddamn moments what the fuck - but because I get hype and want to come on here and verbally shake people until they understand.

I'm especially caught right now by the juxtaposition of the Roemont and Val scenes. Frankly, I'm really tired of people acting like how they're remembered is the important part of their lives, and it was INFURIATING to listen to Roemont wax poetic about all the things he's done for the Faith and how all of the work of his life will be undone if future editors of the Verses think Faulkner's story eclipses his, and cut him out as irrelevant. Like. Come the fuck on dude, the work of your life wasn't to do all these things, but rather to continue to receive acclaim for them centuries after you're dead? The complete lack of self-awareness or perspective is distasteful.

But then. The Last Word, the Retcon God. THIS is what it would be to have the work of your life erased. HE is the editor snipping events out of reality itself.

Roemont is whining about how someone he hates is gonna be more popular than him in a century or two, and up north Val is rewriting perceptions on the fly. Roemont is mad some people who never met him will forget that he gave the order to reclaim the Gulch, and up north Val is forcing a woman to forget that her husband and son ever existed, and because she said so, they actually didn't!

God I love this podcast.

[siltslut]

sometimes i get soo pissed at faulkner cause he does so many stupid things but you need to remember he’s just a kid. like he honestly can’t be older than 23. he’s the youngest katabasian and he’s just dug himself into this hole because he needed any form of validation. i’m glad he’s regretting all his actions and realizing he made some shit choices now but the boy just needs a break :(

[lunacias]

this is how it ends

[starsandwriting]

Inviting my besties to the tea party and it's the most depressed and suffering trio of prophets you've ever met

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Two venn diagrams. The first is about Faulkner and Paige and says, "I accomplished what I set out to do and it's the worst thing in my life. I hate the role I've trapped myself into" in the overlapping section.

The second diagram is about Val and Faulkner and says, "I've done a lot of bad things but it's fine, the end result will be worth it guys I promise this had to be done hey-"

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[rottingraisins]

bunch of silt verses chara design sketches i did trying 2 figure out how to draw them. listen to the silt verses BTW for the love of god

[mongeese]

My favorite character is Carpenter bc of her middle aged poor little meow meow swag, but my favorite duo is Paige and Hayward bc I love it when men are hopelessly devoted to hot cool competent women. Either way it's #feminism

[lights-at-night]

a chronological analysis of ranefall's relationship

alternately titled, 2373 words of me yapping about ranefall

long post. spoilers for all of tsv s3

on first impression, the relationship between faulkner and rane is that of a prophet and his disciple, a leader and his loyal advisor. rane's introduction is them driving faulkner back to the paraclete's gulch - an act of service, which sets a tone for the rest of their relationship. they say that "it was a true privilege to have seen it with [faulkner]". this establishes that rane and faulkner are not on equal footing, that rane's experience is elevated by faulkner's presence (or perhaps status). 

after this, faulkner persuades rane into telling him about their opinions of the katabasians' council by saying that they are on equal footing. of course, they aren't. but this illusion allows rane to feel like they are permitted to be open with him. faulkner doesn't return this courtesy, not answering rane's question of if legalisation is allowed and instead telling rane something appropriately shocking (a death threat towards him), to perhaps distract. 

 rane continues to act as faulkner's assistant in the next few episodes, bringing him news of the parish. however, chapter 33 marks a gradual change in rane and faulkner's relationship. faulkner's monologue in returning to the paraclete's gulch shows how far he has risen in status within the parish. he isn't just an ambitious fanatic in the eyes of the faith anymore, to them he is a prophet. and he is loved. 

as this is happening, rane takes over more and more of his responsibilities. thirteen sentences of this monologue are dedicated to repeating back what rane has told him. this shows his increase in reliance on rane to tell him about the parish and also likely means that rane is the one who has been finding out all this, giving them a more active role in the parish. at the end of this chapter, rane is the one arranging the ceremony to pray /derogatory for carpenter and they are the one preaching to the worshippers, which likely means that they were in charge of that ceremony and not faulkner. their relationship has become somewhat balanced, though not equal: rane obeys faulkner's orders since he is the high prophet, and faulkner obeys rane's stage directions for his performance. 

this episode is a turning point for rane and faulkner, with rane taking a more active role in leading the parish and faulkner confined to being a extremely prized decoration, an object of worship.

this is what their relationship seems to be at a surface level. but faulkner's monologue in chapter 33 also tells us that he views his status as a prophet as a "performance". he doesn't genuinely believe he is a mouthpiece of the trawlerman. the status that the parish has raised him to is somewhat undeserved. 

whether rane, too, believes that faulkner is in direct communion with the trawlerman is not revealed. they always act like it, but since the only lens we see them through is faulkner's, this is not necessarily an accurate representation of them. it would seem that  rane is loyal to faulkner, for example in their interactions with  roemont. the stage directions in this section state how rane is "placatory", and how in the first scene mentioned their tone is "polite". when asked what they see in faulkner by roemont, they say "i'm not sure i understand", which could be genuine confusion over how roemont doesn't see faulkner's glory, or a way to go forth in the conversation as neutral and not be accused by either side. from this, my guess is that rane has a genuine belief in faulkner, to an extent, but may be doing so only for the sake of politeness, or appearances. 

chapter 38 continues to have their dynamic be in limbo. greve's message to faulkner makes him all the more self aware about his deception. he is reminded unkindly that he is very much alone and no amount of love from his fanatics can change that. 

so faulkner tells rane about his childhood home, making the both of them feel like they are closer. without the pressure of leading the parish, they can pretend they could be friends. given faulkner repeating greve's monologue, i think he talks to rane as a way to remind himself he isn't as alone as she says he is. 

then faulkner tells rane to find him prayermarks to protect from gods. when asked if using the marks of another god is blasphemy to the trawlerman, faulkner replies with "it's not blasphemy if the high prophet does it,". he is still leveraging his title over rane despite his discontent with the role. to him, he says whatever will get him the prayermarks. to rane, it blends faulkner as a person with faulkner the high prophet even more.

at the end of the episode, rane saves faulkner from drowning himself. they ask him if he heard the music. this shows how their faith is at the forefront of rane's mind, not faulkner's wellbeing, and it always has and will be - an attitude they hold throughout the series and which faulkner acknowledges in the drowning scene. faulkner doesn't answer, which is a completely reasonable response in this situation. this is probably the most honest they have been with each other since their meeting, with rane saying what i assume they are thinking and faulkner not lying about his faith in the trawlerman. 

faulkner continues his descent, and rane can see this. they might be making an effort yo keep faulkner alive but the only actions we see them make are to repair faulkner's facade. for example, with sister cull, rane tells her to forget she heard any of that. even though the grand aquifer is run down and, as faulkner says, not grand at all, rane continues to pretend that this is what they've all been waiting for, that their sect of the faith is glorious and winning their civil war, which faulkner tells us. i think this is rane's way of showing care, of trying to lift the burden of performance from faulkner. in chapter 44, they say with honesty that they "saw [faulkner] falter" and that "it is [their] duty to pick him back up," which is what i believe their intentions to be when they carry on faulkner's performance. 

 previously, in e33, they found faulkner near to having a breakdown and faulkner told them it was because direct communion with the trawlerman was taxing. and since they found faulkner in the same place he first heard the trawlerman as a child,, it would be a reasonable assumption for rane to make that faulkner was doing that again. they might not genuinely believe this, but it could be a way for them to make sense of faulkner in a way that aligns with their view of him. so they accept this, try their best to make sure it cannot happen again, because what would be the point of all this if faulkner cannot be what everyone thinks he is? nothing is more important than the faith, and the high prophet is the basis of this entire faith. so they pick up the pieces of faulkner's cracked mask, and tell the devout that everything is fine and good. because of this, rane has completely taken over faulkner's responsibilities at this point. there's a quote from arcane that is applicable here: "when i ask [...] what [he's] up to, your name's the first out of their mouth." rane is practically leading the parish at this point, in all ways save titles. 

a demonstration of how little faulkner's word matters is in chapter 43, where rane pressures faulkner into giving away the withermark and tells their audience to disregard faulkner's words, which the faithful do. this shows faulkner's deterioration not only mentally but also in the eyes of his worshippers. he is not what they believe him to be, and so his words are disregarded easily. as he says himself, the word's won't save [him]. they never could. this scene also works as a reversal of their first meeting, where faulkner pressures rane into telling their true opinions with his status. in contrast here, rane pressures faulkner into telling the truth of the withermark with their status among the faith. this is representative of how their positions are completely swapped, with rane holding significantly more power than faulkner. 

faulkner is aware that they are both performing to a degree. the drowning scene is important because in that scene, faulkner takes advantage of their mutual performance to force rane to drown. faulkner frames his discontent in the role of the high prophet, and hides himself from rane for the final time. he pretends that his rage at their indirect murder of carpenter was because he did not have the opportunity to do so himself: that his anger is out of betrayal from their disobedience and not the remnants of love for his sister. this makes sense to rane, it fits into their view of him - it is stated in the transcripts that "rane understands now." faulkner continues to fit within his persona in this scene - is it not fitting that a prophet name his closest advisor his successor, to give someone so close to him a role of importance? - i believe this is what makes rane realize that something is wrong. faulkner has not put on this role in a while - since his suicide attempt, he puts low to no effort into maintaining how he is regarded by the parish. to pivot from that to this is a drastic change, one that likely has reason put into it. faulkner then pressures rane to join him in the water using the role they made for themself. he calls rane is his "most faithful servant", and tells them that "i wouldn’t want you coming to resent me, sibling rane. not when you’ve worked so hard to get me where i am." he puts rane back into a place beneath him, pretending that rane is not the one in control. the next step in this scene would be, of course, for rane to join faulkner in the water. the transcript states, "rane hesitates. they are most definitely afraid for their life and unwilling to join faulkner in the water...but they don't know how to say it without completely shattering the shared performance of loyalty and trust." this demonstrates that rane is aware that this is a performance and that they are expected to play a role just like faulkner was. since neither of them can let up the performance in front of the other, rane is coerced into going into the water.

faulkner disrobes, symbolic of how he is in a way giving up the act. his high prophet clothes have been representative of his persona since ch33, where he describes the clothes that he wears as the high prophet. rane, previously, had told him that his disciples had sewn him a cassock. he says it is too big for him, and rane says they'll pad out his shoulders. this is a physical representation of how rane reshapes him to serve a purpose for the parish. in this scene, he sheds the physical form of the persona of the high prophet and as he drowns rane, he is once again honest with them. 

this scene also demonstrates well how faulkner views rane as a mirror of himself. rane has parallels to faulkner in season 2, with faulkner comparing him and rane to mason and him. rane is as faulkner once was, an eager disciple who thought they were special, but who now knows better. faulkner also asks rane if they would like to be him multiple times, and when drowning rane says many things that could be applicable as him talking to himself, such as "you’re meant to be born anew, sibling! that’s what this is all about! you’re meant to be DIFFERENT! you’re meant to be BETTER! why aren’t you becoming SOMETHING BETTER?" if we interpret this to be faulkner projecting really hard, in this he expresses frustration towards how becoming high prophet has not somehow shifted him into being a better, greater person. though he calls rane charlie in the final paragraphs of the scene, he could also be talking to himself - "we’re so close, you and I, we’re almost there, we can almost hear the music, and once we hear the music, we’ll understand what it was all about, we’ll finally understand, and all the pain will be worth it, everything will be worth it-" he clings onto the idea that there is something better in his future, and tells rane that as he drowns them. 

this scene is faulkner subjecting rane to what he feels they've done to him. faulkner locking him and rane in the dreaming pools together represents how they are both trapped in their respective roles. faulkner twists his words to force rane into a role that isn't them in a mirror of rane persisting the high prophet facade. by drowning rane, faulkner feels as though he is drowning himself, which gives him some degree of satisfaction, given his suicidal ideation. but all he has achieved is to make himself more alone. 

though faulkner views rane as a perfect mirror, a "better version of [him], perhaps, who falters less and says the right words at the proper time," what rane really is to faulkner is a shadow. faulkner cannot see rane for who they are because he is too caught up in himself, as demonstrated in the drowning scene. we only see rane without faulkner on one occasion, with roemont, and even that is brief. a shadow is an imitation always seen with the one who casts it - as is rane. since rane never gets their own point of view written in the series, what faulkner is to rane is deliberately nebulous. due to faulkner's unreliable narration. rane is viewed through layers of paranoia, self-loathing and projection. we can never truly know what faulkner was to rane, but we can guess. my personal opinion is that rane did care about faulkner, but their idolization of him and prioritisation of the faith made it impossible to form a true bond. 

thanks for reading!

[covid-safer-hotties]

COVID vaccine efficacy against severe illness just under 50%, per early estimates from 2023 - Published Aug 20, 2024

Two European observational studies estimate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the COVID-19 XBB.1.5 vaccine approved in fall 2023 against hospitalization, the first one finding 49% overall VE in adults, and one showing good protection—but uneven uptake—among pregnant women.

Steep declines in VE after 1 month For the first study, published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, researchers with the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group conducted a test-negative case-control study on the VE against hospitalization of the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine in the first months of its rollout from October 2023 to January 2024.

The XBB.1.5-like+F456L variant was dominant in Europe from fall to mid-December 2023, when BA.2.86 supplanted it.

The participants were 622 adults hospitalized for COVID-19 and 3,457 control patients admitted for a different severe respiratory infection to 41 hospitals at 7 sites participating in the Vaccine Effectiveness, Burden and Impact Studies (VEBIS) study. In total, 27% of COVID-19 patients and 44% of controls had been vaccinated after fall 2023, most with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

The median time between vaccination and symptom onset was 58 days for COVID-19 patients and 52 days for controls.

Overall VE was 49% against hospitalization (range, 69% at 14 to 29 days to 40% at 60 to 105 days postvaccination), although confidence intervals overlapped for all estimates, indicating uncertainty. VE was over 70% in adults ages 65 years and older up to 1 month after vaccination. VE in patients ages 80 and older declined from 76% in the first 29 days to 39% after 60 days.

The study authors noted that their VE estimates are lower than those of three previous European studies but in line with a fourth, except for a greater decline in VE with increasing time since vaccination (TSV), proposing that the differences could be attributed to different TSVs bands.

"The findings of our study suggest that the adapted COVID-19 XBB.1.5 vaccines provided protection against hospitalisation in the first 3.5 months post vaccination, by reducing the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation by approximately half among the vaccinated individuals," they concluded.

Uptake highest in those with chronic conditions The second case-control study, published in Vaccine, included all 47,046 pregnancies ending from June 2021 to August 2022 among 39,213 women seen at Northwest London general practices. In 57% of pregnancies, the mother had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine during their pregnancy, with 91% of them receiving a second dose.

Pregnant women, the study authors noted, are at higher risk of COVID-19 complications such as hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death.

"They are also at increased risk of pregnancy-related complications such as preeclampsia and emergency cesarean delivery, and their infants are at higher risk of being preterm or stillborn," they wrote, adding that uptake has been suboptimal.

Most pregnancies (80%) were among women aged 25 to 39 years, those who were White (39%) or Asian (34%), and those living in areas in the second (35%) or third (29%) most deprived quintiles of socioeconomic deprivation. The most common of the five risk factors studied was asthma (9.9%), and chronic heart disease was the least common (0.68%).

A total of 180 women were hospitalized for COVID-19. Admission for COVID-19 was much less likely among vaccinated women than among the unvaccinated. A conditional logistic regression model suggested a five-fold decrease in the chances of COVID-19 hospitalization in vaccinated women, compared with their unvaccinated peers (odds ratio [OR], 0.22).

Vaccine uptake was lowest in women ages 18 to 24 years (33%), Black women compared with White (37%; OR, 0.55), and those in socioeconomically deprived areas (50%). Coverage was higher among women with chronic conditions, with the greatest uptake among those with chronic heart disease (75% for first dose, 94% for second).

Among women with chronic conditions, women with asthma (OR, 1.20), chronic heart disease (OR, 2.34), diabetes (OR, 1.54), and morbid obesity (OR, 1.15) had significantly higher odds of receiving at least one vaccine dose during pregnancy, compared with those without the condition.

The probability of receiving a first dose of the vaccine was nearly six times higher in the 45- to 49-year) age group than in those ages 25 to 29, compared with 18- to 24-year-olds.

Second-dose patterns were similar. Hospitalized women were much less likely to have been vaccinated than those not hospitalized (22% vs 57%; OR, 0.22). "This association reinforces evidence on the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and consequent hospital admission among pregnant women," the researchers wrote.

"COVID-19 vaccine uptake among pregnant women is suboptimal, particularly in younger women, Black women, and women in more deprived areas," they added. "Interventions should focus on increasing uptake in these groups to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Future vaccination programmes should engage pregnant women earlier and communicate with them clearly and carefully."

Link to study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irv.13360

[emberdune]

tsv ch.33 revealing at the end that val was broadcasting the whole time is absurdly funny

[tsvwords]

Because I know that I will be alone in my chamber one day soon and they will come to me with the news that Carpenter is dead. Killed upon my direct and specific order; her body desecrated.

And I will have to outlast that moment when the news is brought to me. I will have to maintain my calm and my composure.

I must remain holy, and pure, and they must not see a flicker of doubt or guilt or sorrow upon my face.

I remind myself over, and over, that she was a necessary sacrifice. 

That I had no other choice and only a few seconds in which to react; that she was already an outcast to the faith; that if anyone had a hope of getting away from the Gulch alive, it’d be her.

— Chapter 33: And Where Once Its Howling Forebears Walked.

[tsv-einheit1912]

Jugendturnier TSV Reichartshausen am 29. und 30.06.2024

Rekordbeteiligung; leider spielte das Wetter nicht mit

Insgesamt 124 Mannschaften aus 3 Sportkreisen hatten sich dieses Jahr für unser Jugendturnier angemeldet. Dies bedeutet Rekordbeteiligung für unser Jugendturnier. Leider machte das Wetter dieses Jahr nicht mit. Samstags bei den E- D- und C-Juniorenturnieren herrschten tropische Temperaturen und alle stöhnten unter der extremen Hitze. Das krasse Gegenteil am Tag darauf. Zwar gab es keine Gewitter, aber es regnete fast die ganze Zeit. Während die beiden F-Juniorenspielfeste am Morgen und am Mittag noch gespielt werden konnten, brachen bei den Bambinis alle Regendämme. Und man musste schweren Herzens nach den ersten Partien das Bambini-Spielfest abbrechen bzw. die 2. Gruppe ganz absagen. Wenn alles normal gelaufen wäre, hätten sich an diesem Wochenende über 1.000 Mädchen und Jungs auf unseren beiden Sportplätzen getummelt. Fußball ist aber eben ein Sport im Freien und das Wetter kann man nicht beeinflussen. Trotzdem sahen die zahlreichen Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer gute, faire und teilweise sehr spannende Spiele und oftmals entschieden Kleinigkeiten über Sieg oder Niederlage.

Bei den Turnieren kam es zu folgenden Platzierungen.

C-Junioren ​(12 Mannschaften)

1. Platz ​1899 Hoffenheim 1

2. Platz​JSG Reichartshausen/Neckarbischofsheim/Helmstadt 2

3. Platz​JSG St. Ilgen/Leimen

4. Platz​JSG Reichartshausen/Neckarbischofsheim/Helmstadt 1

D-Junioren​(15 Mannschaften)

1. Platz ​FC Zuzenhausen

2. Platz​TSV Reichartshausen

3. Platz​SG Waibstadt

4. Platz​SG Auerbach

E-Junioren​(30 Mannschaften)

1. Platz ​TSV Reichartshausen 1

2. Platz​SG Kirchardt

3. Platz​FC Zuzenhausen 1

4. Platz​SG Waibstadt 1

Bei den F-Junioren (33 Mannschaften) sowie bei den Bambinis (34 Mannschaften) fand ein Spielfest ohne Turnierform statt bzw. hätte stattgefunden.

Die Jugendabteilung möchte sich noch einmal bei allen Helferinnen und Helfern bedanken, ohne die eine solche Mammutveranstaltung nicht durchführbar wäre. Ein Dank gilt aber auch den Eltern für die vielen Kuchen- und sonstigen Spenden und der Mithilfe in der Cafeteria und im Ausschank sowie den Jugendbetreuerinnen und Jugendbetreuern, die teilweise die kompletten 2 Tage auf dem Sportplatz verbrachten und besonders Dagmar Schilling, welche die komplette Organisation der Cafeteria und der Schichten übernommen hat. Und zu guter Letzt natürlich dem Schirmherrn unseres Jugendturniers Emil Eckert, der wieder alle Pokale und Medaillen für das Jugendturnier gespendet hat.

[siltslut]

i’ll admit this is my first time really paying attention to the greve/roemont stuff and i just picked up on this line from greve

[transarchivist]

hmm. i think chapter 33 might be the most viscerally upsetting tsv episode ive listened to yet.

[volleytimes-com]

Austria: Waldviertel last semifinalist! Ried defeated in straight sets. Klagenfurt ok in relegation Round

🇦🇹| Waldviertel last semifinalist! Ried defeated in straight sets. Klagenfurt ok in relegation Round March 3, 2024 | Quarterfinals Game 3: • Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel - UVC McDonalds Ried/Innkreis 3-0 (30:28, 33:31, 25:21) Relegation Round: • VBK Wörther-See-Löwen Klagenfurt - St. Polten 3-1 (25:19, 21:25, 25:13, 25:19) Read more here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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[lanshengic]

Product introduction roadmap and agent information of the world's top five storage vendors

Followings are some datas collected from Lansheng Technology.

1. Samsung

As the world's leading electronics company, Samsung Electronics' business covers consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, equipment solutions, etc., especially in the field of DRAM and NAND Flash semiconductor storage, Samsung Electronics has long ranked first in the world.

According to TrendForce data, Samsung's global market share in the DRAM and NAND markets will reach 43% and 33% respectively in 2022, making it the core supplier of the global memory chip industry.

Samsung Electronics was founded in 1969. It developed 256Kb DRAM in 1984, successfully developed the world's first 64Mb DRAM in 1992, developed the first 1Gb NAND flash memory in 1999, successfully developed 3D V-NAND technology in 2013, and mass-produced it in 2018. LPDDR5 DRAM, currently Samsung’s 10nm process and extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) technology has developed a large-capacity 512GB DDR5 memory module. At the same time, its 8th generation V-NAND memory layer number has reached 236. The company’s storage technology is at Global leading position.

2. Micron Technology

Micron Technology was founded in the United States in 1978. As one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor storage and imaging products, its main businesses include DRAM, NAND flash memory, NOR flash memory, CMOS image sensors, etc.

In 2022, Micron Technology ranked third in the global DRAM market with a market share of 25%, and ranked fifth in the global NAND market with a market share of 12%.

Micron completed the design of 64K DRAM in 1979 and launched the first 64K DRAM product in 1981. In 1984, it launched the world's smallest 256K DRAM. In 2021, Micron launched the industry's first 1α node DRAM. In 2022, the company began to Customers are shipping samples of their 1β node DRAM products, taking the lead in entering the 1β stage, with EUV technology expected to be available in 2024. In terms of NAND, the company achieved mass production of the world's first 176-layer 3D NAND in November 2020, and will achieve shipment of 232-layer NAND products in 2022.

3. SK Hynix

SK Hynix is the world's leading storage company. The company is committed to producing DRAM, NAND Flash and CIS non-memory semiconductor products. It has four production bases in South Korea, Wuxi and Chongqing in China.

SK Hynix's predecessor was Hyundai Electronics; after the merger of Hyundai Electronics and LG Semiconductor, it was independently renamed Hynix in 2001; in 2012, SK Group acquired Hynix, and it became SK Hynix as it is known today.

On October 20, 2020, SK Hynix and Intel jointly announced the signing of an acquisition agreement in South Korea. According to the agreement, SK Hynix will acquire Intel's NAND flash memory and storage business for US$9 billion. The acquisition includes Intel's NAND SSD business, NAND components and wafer business, and its NAND flash memory manufacturing plant in Dalian, China. Intel will retain its unique Intel OptaneTM business.

On December 29, 2021, Solidigm announced its official establishment and became an independent subsidiary of SK Hynix in the United States.

In 2022, SK Hynix ranked second in the global DRAM market with a market share of 28%, and ranked fourth in the global NAND Flash market with a market share of 13%.

In 1984, SK Hynix successfully trial-produced 16Kb SRAM for the first time, acquired LG Semiconductor in 1999, successfully developed NAND Flash products in 2004, and developed the world's first TSV technology HBM in 2013. In 2019, it became the first time in the industry to successfully develop 128-layer 4D NAND. Enterprise, at this stage, SK Hynix has successfully developed the world's first 12-layer stacked HBM3 DRAM new product. Its DDR5 uses EUV lithography's 1αnm technology. In terms of NAND, in 2022, the company successfully developed 238-layer 4D NAND flash memory in 2023. It demonstrated its latest 300-layer 3D NAND product prototype, which is expected to be available in the 2024-2025 period.

4. Kioxia

Toshiba Memory officially changed its name to "Kioxia" on October 1, 2019, and its Chinese name is "Kioxia".

In 2007, as 2D NAND reached its scale limit, Toshiba took the lead in proposing the concept of 3D NAND structure. However, due to Toshiba's financial difficulties, this part of its core business had to be sold to a consortium led by Bain Capital, an American private equity investment company, in 2018. Toshiba only held about 40.6% of Kioxia's shares. In October 2019, the new company started afresh as Kioxia Holdings Co., Ltd.

Toshiba invented NAND flash memory in 1987. In April 2017, Kioxia's predecessor, Toshiba Memory Group, was spun off from Toshiba, creating advanced storage solutions and services that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future storage methods for many high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automobiles, and data centers.

5. Western Digital Western Digital

Western Digital is a world-renowned storage manufacturer. It was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in California, USA. It has branches around the world and provides storage products to users around the world.

In 2011, Western Digital acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) for US$4.3 billion, which acquired IBM's hard drive division for US$2 billion in 2002.

On October 22, 2015, Western Digital announced that it would acquire flash memory manufacturer SanDisk for US$19 billion in cash and stock. In May 2016, Western Digital completed its acquisition of Sandisk for US$16 billion. In December 2018, Western Digital officially announced that it would conduct a round of integration of its storage sub-brands. Enterprise and business-class storage product brands will abandon the HGST, SanDisk, tegile and WD brands and use the Western Digital unified brand. Including brands, the brand of consumer terminals will not change. Then Western Digital and SanDisk jointly announced that starting from January 1, 2021, the SanDisk brand will be renamed Western Digital, and the company's operating entity and brand name will be changed to "Western Digital GK" and "Western Digital Co., Ltd." On April 18, 2022, Western Digital officially released a new brand logo.

In November 2016, Western Digital and Tsinghua Unigroup established Ziguang Western Digital Company in Nanjing with a registered capital of US$158 million, of which Western Digital and Tsinghua Unigroup each hold 49% and 51% of the shares. In September 2017, Western Digital acquired Toshiba's semiconductor business for US$18.3 billion.

Now, Western Digital is preparing a new transformation plan and plans to sell its storage business to Kioxia Holdings.

According to reports, the two parties have held in-depth negotiations and plan to establish a new holding company after the merger. Western Digital will retain 50.1% of the assets, and the remaining 49.9% will be owned by Kioxia. The president of Kioxia will manage the new company's business, while the Japanese representative company will occupy the majority of the board of directors. The new company will be registered in the United States but will be headquartered in Japan and its shares will be listed on the U.S. and Tokyo stock exchanges.

If the merger is successful, the two parties will surpass South Korea's Samsung Electronics in global market share in the NAND field and amount, ranking first in the global memory market sales.

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