Google TurboQuant: Separating hype from reality

When Google unveiled TurboQuant on March 24, headlines declared the algorithm could slash AI memory use sixfold with zero accuracy loss and deliver eight times faster processing. Within days, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix shed billions in market value. Micron plunged nearly 10 percent. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 4.8 percent. Investors read the numbers and reached a simple conclusion: If AI needs far less memory, the companies making that memory are in trouble. Two weeks on,

By The Korea Herald