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California-based SSD company STEC Inc. has just announced the new CellCare technology, on its official website. CellCare is a combination of hardware and software that enables affordable SSDs to last over 40,000 P/E cycles. A P/E (program erase) cycle is writing data on every memory cell in your SSD and then erasing... |
16 May 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Well-known professional storage solution manufacturer Fusion-io reportedly found a way to make MLC flash NAND behave like SLC cells. Many thought it was a scam, or an expected marketing trick, but it really seems the company’s experts are on to something. Currently, flash NAND-based storage is the fas... |
7 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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People and companies seeking storage devices that can withstand wider temperatures than normal might want to check out the new module SATA SSDs that Apacer has formally launched.
We have only just written about Team Group's commitment to create RAM that handled extreme temperatures, or at least temperatures hi... |
5 May 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Taiwanese company Max Xtreme Technology has just announced the new MX-KATANA 6Gb/s Series low-profile SATA3 SSD modules, on its official website. These are low-profile SSDs with capacities ranging between 240 GB and 480 GB. MX-Katana SSDs are powered by SanForce’s SF2281 controller and come with the same tech... |
3 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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It looks like Intel didn't let Easter go by without a new product release, so out came the SSD 330 Series of storage devices made of MLC NAND Flash chips. Intel continues to hold that solid state drives are the best thing that can happen to anyone's personal computer, assuming the PC doesn't already ... |
17 April 2012
03:11 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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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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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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As is the case with all sorts of semiconductors, NAND Flash chips and the technologies used to make them are getting better, and Samsung has just issued a press release to announce that it has begun manufacturing new chips based on its latest process.As the manufacturing process technologies get more advanced, the c... |
13 October 2010
04:50 GMT |
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While DRAM prices are falling because of continuously weakening demand, NAND Flash chips have actually been getting more expensive, especially those of 16Gb capacity, though it seems that this trend may finally be discouraged.NAND Flash memory chips, whether of the single-level cell or multi-level cell variety, are ... |
18 September 2010
07:03 GMT |
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With rival companies optimizing their storage offerings both in terms of speed and capacity, Transcend decided it would do the same, so it refreshed its collection of 2.5-inch solid state drives with a new, unspecified controller, while also boosting maximum capacity to 512GB.As end-users know, solid state drives ar... |
2 September 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Though a hardware or PC maker usually has a strict plan when it comes to future product releases, it is not unheard of for that roadmap to suffer changes. Products can be canceled or moved up in anticipation of rivals' tactics or certain technologies can be postponed in order to allow resources to be used for m... |
16 June 2010
09:37 GMT |
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Hard disk drives are still the main choice of most consumers and even enterprise users, but solid state drives are becoming increasingly popular, no doubt because of their high speeds and tendency to go on existing when the laptop that houses them falls off a building. In fact, SSDs appear to be quite a promising ven... |
16 June 2010
08:54 GMT |
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Even though moving to smaller processes is getting increasingly difficult and seems likely to somewhat slow down over the next few years, Moore's Law is still very much dictating the rate at which technology advances. As such, it is not exactly surprising to hear that Samsung has managed to complete its 20nm cla... |
19 April 2010
02:30 GMT |
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With solid state drives (SSDs) so rapidly growing in popularity, it is no longer a surprise to see new models and new companies developing more storage solutions. Eager to implement the high-speed data transfer advantages that flash memory has over the storage technology used by hard drives, the Japanese company Gree... |
25 February 2010
08:19 GMT |
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Intel has generally been mainly known for its central processing units, as its storage products have not exactly been a significant part of the company's marketing plans over the years. Even so, however, the Santa Clara chip maker seems rather aggressive in its development of solid state drives, with one of the ... |
19 February 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Unlike nature, man doesn't go into a deep slumber during winter and, as such, neither does the IT industry, which seems to be very much alive and kicking. Among the various segments, the section of this industry that seems to be doing rather well for itself is that of solid state storage. Just days before the cu... |
28 December 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Minutes after it announced the mass production of 3-bit MLC NAND chips, Samsung revealed that it had also been working on implementing Asynchronous Double Data Rate (DDR) interface into its NAND memory, effectively creating 32 gigabit MLC NAND memory chips based on the 30nm process. This development comes only eight ... |
1 December 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Korean company Samsung opened up a new possibility for growth in the area of flash memory when it introduced the first 50nm-class, 16Gb multi-level-cell NAND memory device back in 2005. This advancement allowed for flash memory devices to reach performance higher than that of SLC (single-level-cell). After that, flas... |
1 December 2009
02:41 GMT |
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San Jose, California-based OCZ Technology has just announced the launch of its latest line of affordable, Flash-based Solid State Drives, designed to provide mainstream users with a choice for a high-performance storage solution that takes advantage of the increasingly popular NAND flash technology. The new series, d... |
12 August 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Corsair has announced today the expansion of its line of flash memory products, with the launch of the new P256 high-performance solid state drive, featuring a total storage capacity of 256GB. Designed using Samsung MLC flash memory and Samsung Controller IC, the new P256 from Corsair is said to be capable of deliver... |
12 May 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Despite the rapid and impressive growth of Solid State Drive technology, the market for SSDs is still marked by the higher price tag of these Flash-based solutions, compared with the traditional hard disk drives. The situation is equally present in both the server and the consumer market, two segments that are mainly... |
13 April 2009
08:20 GMT |
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SanDisk, one of the leading vendors of Flash-based storage devices, has announced today the introduction of its third-generation family of solid-state drives (SSDs). The new SanDisk G3 Series has been designed using a multi-level cell NAND flash memory technology, which enables higher levels of performance in the SSD... |
8 January 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced that the company planned to deliver an affordable 512GB solid-state drive until 2009. According to the company, SSD shipments are expected to take off, as more than 25 percent of the shipped notebooks are alleged to come factory-equipped with the new medium.At the moment, the c... |
24 April 2008
12:03 GMT |
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Flash memory products are part of many of today's applications, and Intel Corporation and Micron Technology have announced they are sampling 50 nanometer Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash products.One of Intel's many collaborations within the computer industry is closely related to NAND flash memory product... |
26 April 2007
03:57 GMT |
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In the flash products industry there have been basically two major types of memories, the Single Level Cell (SLC) based memories and the Multi Level Cell (MLC) based memories. Both of these are currently being used in all kinds of flash memory based products from memory cards to portable memory devices, to hard drive... |
27 March 2007
08:00 GMT |
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The two companies have signed a memorandum through which they begin the collaboration in the development, manufacturing and selling process of NAND memory and NAND related products. In this new project, they are undertaking both companies will invest equal amounts of money.O.C.Kwon, Senior Vice President of Hynix Sem... |
21 March 2007
11:35 GMT |
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