As embedded systems are gaining more and more popularity, a certain degree of performance increase is expected from them. As the main quality of this systems over desktop and mobile computer solution is their lower overall costs and low power consumption, there are only a few things that can be done in order to incre...
After months and months of oscillating up and down, computer memory markets are finally getting more stable. Currently, DRAM memory transactions are rising in very small increments in China where computer system manufacturers and vendors are trying to capitalize of the soon to come Olympic Games.After a period of pri...
STMicroelectronics, a computer hardware company that specializes itself in the manufacture of flash based memory chips, announced today the immediate availability of a new circuit, the M25PX32, that is the first of the Serial Flash memory circuits to come with Dual I/O. The former family of circuits, the M25PE, stood...
When the solid state drives, SSDs for short, hit the market there were wild speculations about the imminent decease of the traditional long term storage solutions like hard disk drives, HDDs for short, as the new flash memory based drives offer a number of strategical advantages over the older solution. But as the in...
Nowadays NAND based memory chips are found in almost every electronic device from music players to data storage solutions and computers, so the entire NAND memory manufacturing industry is experiencing another booming expansion after a few months of shipments decline and uncertainty. The currently adopted NAND fabric...
Toshiba and SanDisk formed a partnership over eight years ago in an attempt to stay competitive on the fast growing and very volatile flash memory market. As the global demand for flash based memory solutions is increasing it put strains over the supply chain and flash manufacturers are trying to meet the demand by i...
After big names on the computer industry market encountered problems with the antitrust regulations and the state bodies that were designed to enforce them, it is the turn of another company to face a looming probe. While Intel and Microsoft are the traditional accused parties in just about every antitrust case in th...
While NAND flash-based memory chips are very popular these days as they offer pretty high data transferring rates along side medium sized storage capabilities, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania claim that they can do better with a new type of non-volatile memory technology that is more than 1000 times f...