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The already large collection of flash drives has now grown by one series, as Green House stepped forward and covered quite the sizable range of capacities, even some that might look out of place in this day and age.The NAND Flash storage technology, like any others, will, eventually, be surpassed by some new inventi... |
13 July 2011
08:56 GMT |
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There are things that can always be guessed at based on existing data, but it looks like the DRAM market is one whose outlook has companies divided between the optimistic and those not very so.Many users might not have made a habit of keeping tabs on the financial aspect of the IT market, but the fact remains that t... |
6 July 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Reports and rumors always emerge in regards to the probable marketing performance of a company or product, and it looks like Samsung is one of the latest to come under this type of scrutiny.Samsung may be seeing great results form its tablet initiative, but its other business outlets don't seem to be doing as w... |
5 July 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Even as demand continues to be weak for DRAM, makers of such memory solutions decided they can no longer reap any sort of benefit from letting prices slide any lower than they already are.It really does look like the DRAM market has still not recovered much, something that, one might say, makers of such chips figure... |
1 July 2011
09:17 GMT |
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There's been a lot of talk about Flash versus HTML5. While Adobe is trying to appease everyone and not start a format war, there is a clear need for Flash content to be displayed on devices that don't support it, which is why there are several projects that aim to convert Flash files into standard formats l... |
30 June 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Samsung may have covered the market of mobile devices when it unveiled its newest microSD card, but Delkin is the one who developed a product for photo cameras and video camcorders.End-users will have possibly spotted a certain bit of news trumpeting the fact that IBM created a new storage technology that, while not... |
30 June 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Even as it releases one new product and update after another, Samsung invested enough time, effort and resources into creating a memory card aimed at fourth generation smartphones.Samsung has been releasing hardware products and consumer electronics for quite a while now, so it has an established portfolio.One facet... |
30 June 2011
03:03 GMT |
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NAND Flash memory is, at the moment, seen as the fastest storage solution on the IT market, but IBM decided it would make short work of that very technology by inventing something that seriously trounces the competition.
Currently, the PC storage solutions market is divided between hard disk drives and NAND Flash... |
30 June 2011
02:34 GMT |
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It appears that cramming as much capacity as possible inside tiny packages has become quite the trend nowadays, with Kingmax now stepping forward to provide a sort of alternative to what most consumers might be used to.Nowadays, there are so many mobile devices on sale that it is practically impossible to count them... |
25 May 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Kingston is known for making all sorts of storage solutions, so it is no surprise that it would come out and reveal a new one for mobile devices, especially one with the high specifications implied by its rank on the Class rating system.When it comes to mobile devices, especially smartphones, storage space has to co... |
24 May 2011
07:57 GMT |
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While HDD makers are buying each other off, it looks like operations of this sort are happening on the SSD market as well, with SanDisk now announcing that it has stuck a deal with Pliant Technology.SanDisk is already known as a worldwide supplier of NAND Flash storage solutions, but it looks like it wants a more ac... |
17 May 2011
03:54 GMT |
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When it comes to predictions in a certain field of the IT market, those directly involved with it have just as much say, if not more, than market analysts, and it looks like one such prediction was made by Transcend.The thing about the NAND Flash and DRAM memory markets is that they are often taken together and spok... |
12 May 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The thing about storage units is that they are used in pretty much every device out there that has any measure of sophistication, if only so that the OS/program run by it can be stored on it, and Team Group has just delivered three new industrial-oriented. NAND Flash-based solutions.NAND Flash storage devices have p... |
11 May 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Google Instant Previews have been an interesting addition to the Google search experience and have proven quite useful in some occasions. Since introducing them, Google has expanded the feature, for example by adding support for videos and Flash content. However, Flash content can still be a problem and Google is now... |
6 May 2011
11:41 GMT |
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To some, it might feel that the 20nm manufacturing process started to be used just yesterday, but it looks like an even more advanced node has been developed, courtesy of SanDisk. NAND Flash memory became important when it started to be used in mobile devices, like phones and handsets. Still, the real push came wh... |
21 April 2011
02:28 GMT |
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It looks like, disaster or no disaster, the semiconductor industry is going forward, with Toshiba now announcing that it too has advanced to a better, 2xnm process, at least for its newest collection of MLC NAND Flash memory.Both DRAM and NAND, and the semiconductor segment as a whole, are expected to actually flour... |
6 April 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Scribd is taking the final step towards moving to a HTML5 based document reader. Introduced last year, it is now becoming available as an embeddable tool. What's more, all documents embedded around the web will be upgraded to the new HTML5 reader."Today, we are announcing the roll-out of HTML5 code for all websi... |
18 March 2011
09:52 GMT |
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With Flash storage getting more and more popular and widespread, it is not surprising to hear that more SSDs, in this case from Transcend, have made their way to the market, especially when they have one of newest and fastest connectivity capabilities in the industry.Transcend has been dealing in various types of st... |
16 March 2011
04:40 GMT |
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It appears that the worldwide market for NAND Flash memory chips did not get away unscathed after the natural disaster that struck Japan last week and left very serious problems in its wake.No doubt people will have already learned of the natural disaster that took place in Japan last week, namely an 8.9-magnitude e... |
14 March 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Although MRAM has been around for a while, this type of memory has been unable to reach the high speeds associated with its volatile memory counterparts, but this is going to change in the future as scientists have uncovered a way to significantly speed up its data transfer rates.
Unlike DRAM and SRAM, Magnetic Ra... |
11 March 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Some end-users may be aware of the fact that makers of SSDs have begun to move to more advanced NAND Flash chips, and after some issues with lower capacities and performance, Micron decided to come forth itself and dispel certain concerns.Some time ago, OCZ was the first company to announce transition from 3Xnm proc... |
22 February 2011
10:33 GMT |
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While most people may see transitions to new process nodes as only beneficial, Mushkin does not share this opinion, being of the reported opinion that it has no real reason, yet, to advance to the 25nm technology.Consumers may be aware of the fact that some makers of NAND Flash storage have started to move their pro... |
21 February 2011
03:22 GMT |
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OCZ may have been the first out with the announcement that it was moving its SSDs to 2Xnm process technologies, but Corsair is not really that far behind, having made a similar decision.Advancing to a new manufacturing process, for solid state drives, means improvements to pretty much every feature, except (maybe) d... |
19 February 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Since new process technologies have been announced over the past months, makers of Flash-based storage units have been moving on to better chips, and OCZ just announced it has moved all its SSDs to the 2Xnm process.Solid state drives have been gaining traction quickly because, despite being less capacious and much m... |
16 February 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Since solid state storage is bound to go only forward and progressively eat away the share of HDDs (hard disk drives), Silicon power decided to enhance its portfolio by bringing out the V20 line. Some end-users may have heard or read about how SandForce managed to sell over 1 million SSD controllers over the course ... |
15 February 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Adobe has announced that the recently launched Flash Player 10.2 will be available on a myriad of mobile devices soon. At the same time, Adobe is also touting the adoption of the AIR platform. The company says it expects 200 million mobile devices to be able to run AIR apps by the end of the year."We are thrilled to ... |
14 February 2011
10:12 GMT |
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AMD and Adobe have recently announced that the company's recently released Fusion APUs fully support hardware acceleration for Flash videos and are able to playback content encoded at resolutions as high as 1080p.
Flash video files playback is one of the most taxing tasks that a CPU can run and low-power proc... |
9 February 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Even though it had become something of a usual phenomenon for NAND Flash prices to keep shifting, it seems that quotes remained more or less unchanged during the past two weeks, or so say reports.The semiconductor market has already been predicted to go through a fairly odd year.While the market mostly recovered in ... |
29 January 2011
06:51 GMT |
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It appears that makers of NAND Flash memory chips are quite bent on advancing their technologies as quickly as possible, Toshiba and SanDisk being among those that seem to be moving fastest in this respect.
As is the case with all semiconductors, the more advanced the manufacturing process, the better they are ov... |
29 January 2011
05:32 GMT |
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While Transcend is dealing with new solid state drives, SanDisk is promoting a different sort of Flash-based storage solution, namely a new SDHC memory card meant for photo cameras and video capture.The newest SDHC memory card that SanDisk came up with is dubbed SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I.It is based on the most... |
17 January 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Though the end of the year should end on a promising note, this may not happen for a certain join venture that Intel and Micron have been managing, IM Flash that is, whose existence may be in jeopardy.Fortunately, Intel and Micron haven't gotten into a lawsuit, unlike many IT players, but their collaboration ma... |
30 December 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Once again, market watchers have taken a look at the most recent developments on the semiconductor market, and it appears that the segment of NAND Flash memory, as far as MLC chips go at least, survived December without any major price changes.Over the past few months, the semiconductor market has been going through... |
29 December 2010
08:57 GMT |
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It would seem that any and all IT companies are eagerly releasing new products, and PQI has just made an announcement of its own, one that consists of the revelation that its portfolio now includes a new memory card reader.Memory card readers are, one might say, an arguably peculiar type of PC accessory.Nowadays, pr... |
28 December 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Since Intel and Micron have been collaborating on NAND Flash product development and manufacturing, it is not surprising to hear that they plan to open a new facility, especially considering that the opening of said facility is already more than two years overdue.The collaboration between Intel and Micron begun to p... |
17 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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After a time of experiencing decreasing prices, it seems that NAND Flash memory chips have broken out of the decline trend that DRAM is still subject to in order to start seeing their ASPs rise.It appears that all the recent events that occurred on the NAND Flash market, like Toshiba's power outage, have change... |
16 December 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Now here's a special Christmas present for all of you Linux enthusiasts out there, as Mandriva announced the availability of its portable USB Mandriva Flash Drive. It is based on the KDE4 Edition of the Mandriva Linux 2010 distribution (released on July 8th, 2010) and it's available as an 8GB USB flash driv... |
16 December 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Kingmax figured now would be as good a time as any to introduce its newest collection of flash drive units, so it issued a press release in which it details the PD-30 and PD-33 lines.Since it already has a bunch of different flash drives on sale, Kingmax figured it would make its newest lines varied both in terms of... |
15 December 2010
09:59 GMT |
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It seems that low demand is not the only issue that the semiconductor market is facing, at least not the only one anymore, as Toshiba has gone through a more or less unfortunate experience that will significantly reduce its shipments for the month. After getting cheaper and cheaper over the course of November, NAND ... |
13 December 2010
03:51 GMT |
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Since capacity is really the only reason, besides pricing in some instances, that has prevented Flash-based storage from becoming even more prominent than it already is, Micron figured it would release a number of high-capacity NAND products.Micron just issued a press release to announce its family of ClearNAND devi... |
2 December 2010
06:54 GMT |
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It seems that, while not exactly over, the troubles on the NAND Flash market have more or less settled down, at least to some extent, because spot prices of NAND Chips managed to stabilize.The past few weeks have been filled with reports about how the semiconductor industry is not doing very well.Both the DRAM and N... |
1 December 2010
07:09 GMT |
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It appears that ADATA decided it was time for it to release a product that is not exactly a new DRAM memory or NAND Flash product, so it came up with its newest Micro Memory Card Reader.Consumers will well know that most any laptop nowadays, from tablets and netbooks to the highest-end notebooks, have their own card... |
29 November 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Even though certain market watchers foresee that the prices of NAND chips will keep falling for months, it seems that, at least for now, prices managed to rise somewhat, thanks to the situation on the Korean market.Those keeping track of such developments will know that the market for semiconductors has not exactly ... |
26 November 2010
09:20 GMT |
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It seems that, much like what seems to be happening on the DRAM market, the segment for NAND Flash storage is suffering from the same acute price crisis and will keep doing so for months to come.For those in need of a reminder, DRAM prices are dropping, have been dropping for a time and will keep dropping until they... |
26 November 2010
07:09 GMT |
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It seems that the USB 3.0 standard is seeing its own share of advancements lately, in the form of new controller chips, and Super Talent appears to already be reaping the benefits with its RAIDDrive. Super Talent has long been a supplier of DRAM products and flash storage solutions, for the consumer and enterprise m... |
23 November 2010
08:17 GMT |
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After quite a while of continuously decreasing prices, it appears that NAND Flash chips have finally managed to go up instead of down, even if it is just temporary.With all the odd things happening on the IT market, prices of various products have been on the decline, particularly those of DRAM and NAND chips.T... |
19 November 2010
10:25 GMT |
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There is not a soul on this planet that hasn’t heard of Apple’s negative stance towards Adobe’s Flash platform. Many should also be aware that, starting this October, the Mac maker is shipping its computers Flash-free, because it reportedly overloads the CPU, while draining MacBook batteries faster.... |
18 November 2010
09:10 GMT |
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Though NAND prices have been falling over the past few months, the fact remains that revenues in this sector will be much higher than those of 2009, and iSupply sees tablets as one of the main factors in this performance.Most recently, a report arose stating that NAND Flash chips had gotten even cheaper in November,... |
17 November 2010
10:11 GMT |
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Apparently, though it is not exactly a fortuitous occurrence as far as NAND Flash makers are concerned, NAND Flash chips have been getting even cheaper in the first half of November.Those keeping track of developments on the semiconductor market will be aware that prices have been falling for months.Both DRAM and NA... |
17 November 2010
09:13 GMT |
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For many years, web developers were faced with a tough decision, they could either build a site optimized for search engines or one offering a rich experience, which at the time meant using Flash. This is because Google along with other search engines could only index little Flash content or none at all. This changed... |
12 November 2010
11:44 GMT |
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It seems that the popular SSD controllers developed by SandForce have one again been found useful, this time as part of the latest solid state drive developed by Micro Center.While SandForce did recently release the SF-2000 series of controllers, the SF-1200 are still going strong.This is mostly because the 2000 lin... |
12 November 2010
09:58 GMT |
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