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The times when prices of dynamic random access memory were in free fall are long past, and Micron, the world’s third greatest supplier, is proving all too eager to draw attention to this particular fact.
Had the suspicions of foul play degenerated into an outright legal action, Micron might not have come out... |
25 March 2013
05:23 GMT |
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Elpida's fall from grace is one of the more humbling occurrences on the technology industry. It is not every day that a previously famous maker of memory product suffers bankruptcy.
Back in November 2013, we learned that the Tokyo court had agreed, in principle, to allow Micron to buy Elpida.
It turns out, t... |
1 March 2013
09:33 GMT |
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There was a time when solid-state drives would not have even been considered viable for large-scale data storage applications, but things have changed so much that Micron has released an SSD made just for such things.
The reason solid-state drives were not seen as very good for data centers and mission-critical app... |
26 February 2013
11:13 GMT |
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When making a solid state storage drive, the maximum capacity ultimately depends on the individual capabilities of each flash chip, which is why Micron is going to cause a stir, however unnoticed by consumers at large. Being one of the greatest innovators in terms of flash memory (as well as DDR3 RAM, but that has ... |
15 February 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Laptops cannot exactly get smaller and thinner without components doing the same, and micron knows this well.
The company has just made the formal introduction of a low-profile single-sided, double data rate 3 (DDR3) SODIMM.
That means a small and thin memory module with chips on a single side.
Made out of 30nm DD... |
7 February 2013
09:27 GMT |
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SSDs may not be the first choice of data center builders, since HDDs are still much more capacious and stable, but they have gotten far enough along that their speed makes up for the aforementioned shortcoming. Micron is ready to build on that. Indeed, the company has launched a solid-state drive intended precisel... |
22 January 2013
09:55 GMT |
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Micron has added another firmware for its C400 SSD Series with 6 Gb/s data rate speed. It increases performance on all of Microsoft's operating systems but especially the latest, while also improving robustness in the event of a power loss and significantly reducing reboot time.The firmware corrects a minor stat... |
10 January 2013
08:52 GMT |
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Despite the PC market declining, not all sub-segment have suffered a drop in demand, solid-state drives least of all. True, the NAND Flash market hasn't been flourishing much lately, but that is in spite of SSDs, not because of them.
Unlike the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the NAND Flash seg... |
21 December 2012
03:42 GMT |
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The collapse of Elpida, a Japanese producer of random access memory, was one of the greatest company bankruptcies of the past few years, showing how low the memory market has fallen.
To avoid going completely out like a light, Elpida decided to let Micron buy it.
That was many months ago. The time between then and ... |
2 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Solid-state drives may have standard shapes and sizes, but Skyera and Micron didn't really care about meeting any sort of expectations, except their own perhaps, when they created Skyhawk.
The device isn't actually called a solid-state drive, but that is essentially what it is: a storage product made of N... |
17 October 2012
05:06 GMT |
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The falling price of NAND and subsequent downwards spiral of SSD unit prices have prompted Toshiba to attempt a price hike by stopping or reducing its output by an overall margin of 30% for a couple of months.The company hoped that such a move will lead to a modest breaking of the falling NAND prices, but some other ... |
30 September 2012
10:51 GMT |
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You'd expect that a company willing and capable of buying a rival with a greater market share than its own would have more promising news to give, but this does not seem to be the case.
Micron bought Rexchip and ELPIDA back in early July 2012, after Elpida ended up in a situation where it had to choose between... |
28 September 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Michael Rayfield clearly did a good job as overseer of NVIDIA's Tegra division. There is little chance that Micron would have so quickly snatched him otherwise.
Rayfield left NVIDIA just a month ago, after developing the strategy of the system-on-chip business, as well as executing his duties well enough to ena... |
19 September 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Since tablets and ultrathin PCs are bound to end up as the main driving forces of the consumer PC and electronics market, those who manufacture their components need to step up their game.
On the random access memory (RAM) market, SK Hynix was particularly fast, having already launched DDR3L-RS DRAM.
Micron is doi... |
19 September 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Just some months ago, Japanese electronics and semiconductor giant Toshiba was announcing that it was reducing its NAND production by up to 30% to try and rebalance the supply and demand ratio on the market.
The goal of the company was to increase NAND prices as that level of pricing was not profitable.
What most ... |
11 September 2012
04:01 GMT |
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We've been hearing about the Hybrid Memory Cube alternative to today's RAM for a while now, and we have to say that it was about time the specification got published.
This isn't the final form of the specification, just an initial draft but, even so, it describes an interface protocol and short-reach... |
17 August 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Intel is not really satisfied with the current mSATA SSDs that have been integrated in its thin UltraBooks. The standard sets specific limits to the PCB size and this poses a problem for manufacturers wanting better performance. The main issue is the fact that, when you want more performance from an SSD, you integra... |
6 August 2012
02:19 GMT |
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Two weeks after releasing the v4 mSATA solid-state drive series, Crucial, one of Micron's global SSD brands, has formally introduced the 2.5-inch v4 line.
We'll say it upfront that the 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB SSDs aren't high-end products. They don't even possess the SATA III 6.0 Gbps in... |
31 July 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Micron buying Elpida was a foregone conclusion, even with all the reports and counter-reports on the matter, but, now that it has happened, some parties are concerned about what may come next. The analysts at IHS iSuppli have studied the acquisition of Elpida by Micron, and the status of both before and after the f... |
26 July 2012
04:55 GMT |
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We reported about Plextor’s new M5S SSD product line here and we presented you the technology in detail here. Besides launching exclusive limited editions of its products like the one we reported here, Plextor is now giving away new M5S SSDs to let people know about its fast and quality drives. The M5S series ... |
24 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Micron announced today the availability of the world’s first mobile phase change memory in a dual-chip/multi-chip package for mobile devices. There is a lot to say about PCM memory, but the shortest definition is that it is a flash memory replacement with very high write speeds and great durability. Like we ju... |
18 July 2012
20:51 GMT |
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Every SSD enthusiast was impressed by the Plextor M3 Series SSDs. The company is now officially launching the new M5S Series of drives in the Western world. The M5S Series are powered by the same 88SS9174 Marvell controller just like the M3 product line. The new series are manufactured by Philips & LITE-ON Digital ... |
11 July 2012
23:11 GMT |
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After impressing most SSD enthusiasts with its M3 Series SSDs, Plextor is now getting ready to launch the new M5 Series of drives. The M5 Series are powered by the same 88SS9174 Marvell controller just like the previous product line. The new series will be manufactured by Philips & LITE-ON Digital Solutions (PLDS) T... |
4 July 2012
21:51 GMT |
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Micron surprised those less familiar with the insights of the memory industry and actually acquired Taiwanese memory manufacturer Rexchip along with ELPIDA. Now, Micron has increased its memory manufacturing capacity by about 50 percent. The first and most important aspect of the deal is that it offers Micron better... |
3 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Idaho-based memory manufacturer, American company Micron Technology is the final buyer for the memory production facilities and I.P. belonging to the bankrupt Elpida. Micron has reportedly finalized the deal and will pay a total of 2.5 billion dollars for the Japanese memory maker. There were many rumors regarding t... |
2 July 2012
02:21 GMT |
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The other times we wrote about micron DRAM, we usually referred to the likelihood of new chips being employed in better notebook and desktop modules, but the company is aiming for something else this once.
Sure, its new DDR3 devices will be perfectly possible to use in normal DIMMs and SO-DIMMs, but as secondary pu... |
12 June 2012
10:02 GMT |
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You'd think a company that filed for bankruptcy and is about to be bought by another wouldn't have much to show in terms of product sales, but surprises never cease.In a paradoxical turn of events, Elpida managed to get the third spot in terms of DRAM market share during the first quarter of 2012.The compan... |
26 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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It was only a few days ago that we reported on who was left to bid for Elpida and, now, we finally have confirmation: Micron will acquire the company entirely.
From being one of the prime suppliers of semiconductors, Elpida has somehow fallen to the level of bankruptcy very quickly over the past year and a half.
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11 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Elpida put itself up for auction a while ago, but bidders have been backing out of the deal one after another, the latest to do so being SK Hynix.
Now, according to DRAMeXchange, Micron is the company most likely to win out of the remaining interested parties.
Getting Elpida's assets would allow it to truly ... |
8 May 2012
08:57 GMT |
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The next generation of computer dynamic random access memory is getting closer with each passing day, and now we get to see Micron's first module based on it. Micron isn't the first company to demo a DDR4 memory module. Hynix went first, last month, even before JEDEC revealed some key details about the sp... |
7 May 2012
08:40 GMT |
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There is a new line of solid state drives up and selling, or they will be soon enough. Long story short, Micron has finished its RealSSD C400 solid state drives. The products feature the mSATA interface and will serve notebooks, or any other compatible application. That said, the capacity range is 32 GB to 256 GB,... |
11 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Marking one of the rare cases when an antitrust lawsuit actually ends instead of being started, Micron and Oracle have reached a settlement in their antitrust battle. With all the legal fights going on, there are few occasions where we can actually sit back and say that progress is being made. As such, Micron and... |
30 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Intel and Micron set up the IM Flash joint venture a while ago, but their cooperation went through some transformations since then and it is doing so again.
The two companies have signed a new agreement, through which Intel's stake in IM Flash is reduced, even though the Santa Clara giant will continue to part... |
29 February 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Micron has many sorts of memory up for sale, but it has invented a new type of DDR3, one that focuses on low energy use without crippling performance or increasing costs overmuch.
The new RAM (random access memory) chips that Micron has made are called DDR3Lm and come in 2 Gigabit and 4 Gigabit capacities.
Both of... |
10 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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It was just days ago that Micron's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Appleton, was reported dead after suffering a plane crash.The company has now decided who the new chief executive is going to be, namely D. Mark Durcan, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Micron since 2007.He will also serve on Mic... |
6 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Micron definitely has no reasons to rejoice today, and neither does the semiconductor industry at large: Steve Appleton, Micron's chief executive officer, has passed away.
News of someone's death is disheartening by default, but Steve Appleton is going to leave many people mourning, not just his wife and ... |
4 February 2012
04:12 GMT |
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In a move that is quite common on the worldwide IT industry, and every other industry really, Micron has announced that it is taking over ownership of Virtensys.
Micron already has an extensive collection of solid state drive storage units, but its enterprise collection could do with some enhancements.
It has bee... |
23 January 2012
04:39 GMT |
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When Micron announced that it has turned to the 20nm fabrication process for manufacturing its next-gen NAND Flash memory, many in the industry have feared that the smaller production node will lead to a decrease in endurance, but Micron has recently put these worries to rest when it said that 20nm Flash will be just... |
22 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Micron has been working with both Intel and IBM on 3D memory chips and, now, the company has begun a close collaboration with JEDEC for the standardization of the 3DS DRAM interface and die-stacking technology.
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, formerly known as the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Coun... |
17 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Intel and Micron announced earlier today that the two companies have started mass production of 64Gb NAND memory chips built using the 20nm node which will be used in Solid State Drives, tablets, smartphones, and other devices.The chips, which entered test production in April of this year, are built BY IMFT (Intel Mi... |
6 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Intel and Micron has just announced that the companies have managed to develop the world’s first 20 nanometer 128 gigabit (Gb), multilevel-cell (MLC) NAND device that will enable SSD manufacturers to build more spacious drives at lower price points.The chip was actually developed by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT)... |
6 December 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The memory market is in the ditch, so a nice breakthrough might be just what it needs to climb back up, a breakthrough like the one Micron and IBM are developing.
Technically, the idea for the new memory technology appeared some time ago.
Known as 3D memory chips, it, or they, are a something that more than one ch... |
2 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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The DRAM market may have done poorly over the past year, and the past two quarters in particular, but that doesn't mean that all companies were in as much of a difficulty as the others.
In fact, Samsung and Micron actually thrived, even unlike Toshiba and Elpida, which are so overstocked that Kingston felt itse... |
28 November 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Rambus has been locked in a lawsuit against Micron and Hynix over whether or not the latter two conspired to keep its RDRAM out of the market through price fixing.
Now, a verdict has finally been reached, one that, though it may and will be appealed, sided with the defendants.
During the late nineties, Rambus was t... |
17 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Micron has just announced that it will soon expand its memory product portfolio with a new 64GB module that is specially designed to be used in server environments running memory intensive tasks.More specifically, the 64GB module was developed for cloud computing, high-performance computing, Web servers, transactiona... |
7 November 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Samsung and Micron are working together on the hyper memory cube (HMC) and they seem to have finally decided on a time frame for when the first specification appear.
The first hyper memory cube (HMC) products will be available in 2013, according to the most recent update on Samsung's part.
This will be possi... |
3 November 2011
04:26 GMT |
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Micron and Samsung Electronics just announced the formation of an open consortium for OEMs, enablers and integrators that will collaborate in developing and implementing the interface specifications for Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC).This technology brings together DRAM memory and logic processes into just one package to o... |
7 October 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The NAND Flash storage market may not exactly be as bad off as that of DRAM, but it doesn't seem to be doing too great either, as evident from how Micron, a big supplier of such chips, incurred a loss during the latest fiscal quarter.
Micron Technology has just completed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year... |
4 October 2011
05:43 GMT |
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With OCZ focusing on versatility and combinations between storage technologies, Micron chose to explore some of the possibilities in the area of data security, eventually making a special sort of secure solid state drive.
The solid state drive market is in no way something that can be easily ignored by the consum... |
21 September 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Micron has more to brag about than just its recent collaborations with Intel, as the company issued a new press release not long ago, one that goes into its activities on the enterprise segment.
Micron has been in the memory/storage market for years now, this being one of the reasons Intel called upon its experti... |
16 September 2011
05:30 GMT |
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