Google Announces TurboQuant Reduces Memory Requirements

Google announced TurboQuant last week, a compression algorithm that it says can reduce memory requirements for some LLM tasks by at least 6x. Shares of Micron, Western Digital and SanDisk fell significantly as investors priced lower DRAM and SSD demand. Industry watchers including TrendForce warn that supply-chain bottlenecks, power-infrastructure limits and geopolitical disruptions could limit near-term impacts on prices and capacity.