Intel and Micron Release 34-nm NAND device
	According to a recent press release, Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have released the world's first 34-nm, 32-gigabit multi-level cell chip. In doing so, they have succeeded in claiming the technical lead in the NAND flash memory market. Reportedly surpassing rivals Toshiba, Samsung and others, the Intel-Micron duo have introduced the first sub-40nm NAND flash device, with the release of the industry's first ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron and Nanya, Hand in Hand for Memory Joint-Venture
	Memory manufacturers Micron and Nanya have announced that they signed an agreement to form a new DRAM joint venture, called MeiYa Technology Corp. This will combine the two companies' experience on the DRAM market and is expected to open new opportunities in DRAM chips manufacturing. The two companies will join both their intellectual property and fabrication facilities. Nanya's Taiwanese manufacturing facility runni ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Digs For Faster DDR2, DDR3 Aspen Memory
	Micron has started shipping units of its energy-efficient Aspen series of DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules. According to the company, memory draws up to 15 percent of the total energy absorbed by modern servers, and the figures are expected to increase as more and more memory is required for server normal operation. The new memory offerings from Micron are the 1 Gigabit DDR3 modules certified to work at 1.35V and the 2 Gigabit DDR ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 11:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Starts Sampling 4 GB DDR3 Notebook Modules
	Micron has just announced that it started sampling units of its 4 GB DDR3 memory modules, built using 2-Gigabit DDR3 chips. The new memory offering is comprised of the highest-density DDR3 modules on the notebook market. The nowadays mobile technology asks for significant amounts of system memory, that is a key element for graphics-intensive and eye-candy operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows Vista. The new memory ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rambus Wins in Memory Patent Lawsuit Trial
	Memory chips manufacturer Rambus has just won in the patent infringement lawsuit against its competitors, after about ten years of trials. According to the jury investigating the case, Rambus was not found guilty of monopolistic practices against its competitors by patenting technologies that imposed themselves as standards. The lawsuit was filled back in 2000 by chip manufacturers Micron Technology Inc., Hynix Semiconductor I ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 18:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Joins Nanya for 50-Nanometer DRAM Development
	Micron Technology has just announced that it has joined Nanya for a DRAM joint-venture and a partnership in research and development on the 50-nanometer production node. The announcement puts an end to the rumors that have circulated since last month. The two companies jointly stated that they are expecting to sign an agreement in the next few months for a joint program in DRAM development and design at sub-50-nanometer nodes ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2008, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nanya to Dismiss Partnership With Micron
	Nanya Technology was reported to have entered a technology partnership with US-based Micron company. The allegations also claimed that the two companies were getting ready to enter a joint-venture for DRAM chips manufacturing. Nanya was also supposed to kick its German partner Qimonda out of their current business. The report alleged that Nanya had already inked the memorandum of understanding with Micron, and the two compani ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 10:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron to Introduce World's Fastest Mobile DRAM Memory
	Memory specialist Micron Technology announced that it has started sampling industry’s fastest 512 Mb Mobile DRAM component, that will power the upcoming notebook and ultra-mobile PC systems. Mobile applications are increasingly growing and demand more and more resources from a version to another, and memory becomes a critical element for the system's overall performance. Micron's Mobile DRAM meets the mobile users� ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel, Micron to Announce Revolutionary NAND Interface
	Intel and Micron announced their newest breakthrough that will dramatically improve the NAND flash-memory data transfer rates by up to five times than the nowadays technology. This is not a theory or a project anymore, as Micron rolled out its first working devices built on the new discovery. The interface specification is fully compliant with the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFi) Working Group. The ONFi group was formed back ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Corsair Dominator PC3 -The DDR3 Battleground Starts Heating Up
	Corsair was one of the undisputed leaders in the DDR2 memory market, and history seems to repeat itself on the DDR3 battleground. The Value Select memory modules brought all the best in the DRAM industry and packed them to meet the overclockers' needs. The Dominator series of DDR3 memory modules delivered by Corsair is built on the D9 IC variant of memory chips from Micron Technology. The Dominator memory is just the tip ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TwinMOS to Introduce Twister DDR3 Overclocking Modules
	The DDR3 memory standard continues to gain popularity with the advent of Intel's P35 and X38 chipsets. Major memory solution manufacturers have long since come up with working modules of the new memory type, but TwinMOS' raised the performance stake with their DDR3-1800 over-clocking DRAM modules. The Twister Overclocking series is comprised of DDR3-1600 and DDR3-1800 memory modules that are extremely adjustable. The ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 09:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron to Report Operational Loss for Q4 of 2007
	Micron Technologies has reported a quarterly loss after a full year of profit. The largest manufacturer of memory chips in the United States has been terribly affected by the free-falling prices that could not even cover the manufacturing costs. Previously, Micron reported first fiscal quarter net loss of $262 million, which translated in shares dropping about 34 cents per unit. Last year reports posted a net profit of $115 ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 10:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Zelenograd to Deliver Smart Card Integrated Circuitry
	Rusian provider of telecommunications and consumer electronics equipment, JSC Sitronics, has started production of chips using the 0.18-micron node. The chips to power smart cards are produced in Zelenograd, Russia. Mikron, the Sitronics subsidiary, bought the current technology from the French company STMicroelectronics for $200 million. According to the company's roadmap, Micron was supposed to start producing chips in December ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 11:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Goes Small on DDR2 Memory Chips
	Micron Technologies have announced that they have begun shipping world's smallest DDR2 memory chip. The new one-gigabyte DDR2 chip is built on 68-nanometer technology and features a die coating of only 56 mm². This achievement was possible due to Micron's previous technology, called 6F2. Another key point of the product is the reduced power consumption, as the 68-nanometer process asks for about 20 percent less ener ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 02:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Solid-State Drives: 256 GB and Up
	Shortly after Micron has announced their new series of solid-state drives (SSD) to comprise 32 or 64 GB of storage space, Super Talent Technology takes the capacity to a new peak. The company has launched a set of 256GB Serial ATA (SATA) solid state drives, also known as FSD56GC35M. These discs, like the other solid-state equipments, can entirely substitute a had-drive without performing hardware modifications or adaptations. ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Solid-State Drives, Rare and Expensive Next Year
	Although solid-state technology has already begun to wink at portable gadget manufacturers, such as laptops, mobile phones and most of all, portable MP3 players, they are still a borderline product between the actual and the future technology. Micron Technologies have already revealed their new line of solid-state drives that function like normal HDDs and require no extra adapters of hardware changes for their usage in a notebook. These ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron to Even DRAM Scores
	Micron Technology is somewhat misleading, at least in terms of name; their technology may be "micro", but the company is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Among the four largest memory chip makers in the industry, the company provides customers with all the memory and storage areas, such as imaging, telecommunications or networking. Most of their products are sold on the Asia/Pacific market, whil ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Solid State Drives Are the Future of Storage
	Micron will produce two new series of 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch solid-state drives for notebooks and desktops joined under the new RealSSD brand. Solid Storage Drives use solid-state memory to permanently store data and can replace conventional hard-disk drives in any application. These disks lack mobile part and thus, they are more power-aware and run noiselessly. As customers' necessities in the storage area are rapidly evo ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Computer Memory Price Declines Further
	This summer was a very bad time for the manufacturing companies that are active in the production of both computer memory chips and NAND flash based non-volatile memory solutions, as price tags fluctuated widely, with a general tendency of pointing downward. One of the most important computer and NAND memory chip making company, Micron Technology, announced a quarterly loss as the company was hit by a massive price decline for pr ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Boosts DDR2 Perfomance With New 1066 Mb/s Modules
	I personally dislike the DDR2 memory modules. The first mainstream solutions were quite sluggish and came close to their DDR ancestors. OK, they do support higher frequencies, but how about memory timings and overclocking potential? Not particularly mesmerizing, I'll tell you: certainly not worth the money. However, Micron is willing to change all this with their recent release of 1 Gigabit DDR2 DRAM chips that operate at 1 ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Micron Introduces 3 Megapixel Camera Sensor For Mobiles
	Micron technologies, the company that is said to be producing the camera for the iPhone, is now presenting a quarter of an inch 3-megapixel camera system-on-chip sensor for mobile phones in order to improve the quality of photos taken. The SOC sensor brings so ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DDR3 for The Masses, But Not from Samsung
	The introduction of DDR3 memory modules comes at the same time as Intel is preparing its chipsets that support the new 45nm processors. AMD has said that it will use DDR3 memory, but now, they probably decided that they will not wait as long as they have done with DDR2, before they use the technology on their products; but when are they going to actually use these memory types, that remains to be seen. Micron Technologies and ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone Camera Sensors Will Be Produced by Micron
	Last week, I spoke about the manufacturers that will put together the iPhone, hopefully be June, as announced. I was saying then the names that are likely to win the manufacturers competition are Hon Hai for assembling, Samsung for its NAND memory, Marvell for supplying the iPhone's 802.11 wireless connectivity, Catcher Technology for the iPhone casing, Micron for its camera, CSR for Bluetooth chip-sets, Intel (or Japanese R ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 11:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia