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Aptina Wants Micron's Fab as a CIS Production Site

Currently unable to quickly respond to short lead-time orders from customers, Aptina imaging seems to be interested in transforming Micron's Japanese semiconductor manufacturing plant into a producer of CMOS image sensors. Aptina CEO David Orton stressed the fact that the cause for this current inability was in ...

21 November 2009
07:21 GMT

Micron Announces New LRDIMMs for Increased Server Memory Capacity

Micron Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, has announced today that it has produced the industry's first DDR3 load-reduced, dual-inline memory module (LRDIMM), a product designed for the server market. In addition, the company also said that it would begin sam...

30 July 2009
09:31 GMT

Micron Starts Mass Production of 34nm NAND Chips

Micron Technology, one of the world's leading manufacturers of NAND flash solutions, has recently announced that it has started the mass production of the high-capacity 34nm NAND flash, which has been adopted by Lexar Media for the company's new flash memory cards. Designed to meet the growing demand for hi...

30 June 2009
06:21 GMT

Micron Unveils New Low-Power DDR3 Notebook Memory

There's a general trend in the IT industry for the development of more energy-efficient solutions that can enable increased battery life and higher-performance consumer devices and which can now be found in a series of hardware components, ranging from processors to memory and storage devices. On that note, Micr...

18 June 2009
09:13 GMT

Micron Validates DDR3 Server Memory for Intel's Nehalem Xeon CPUs

Intel's highly anticipated launch of the next-generation Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 processors has enabled a number of system vendors to roll out their latest offerings, powered by Intel's latest computing processing units. However, in order to take advantage of a high-performance server system, users require ...

9 April 2009
10:59 GMT

Micron Announces New High-Density MCP Solution for Handsets

Micron Technology, Inc. has announced today that it started the sampling of industry’s highest-density all-in-one NAND-based multi-chip package (MCP). The new solution includes 16GB of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND and is targeted at mobile phones. The MCP is able to enhance the company's 32 gigabit (Gb) 34-...

12 February 2009
05:42 GMT

Micron Posts $706 Million Loss

Micron announced a few days ago results of operations for its first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended on December 4, 2008. As the results show, the company registered net sales of $1.4 billion and posted a net loss of $706 million, which translates into $0.91 per diluted share. Micron generated $359 million in cash...

28 December 2008
05:22 GMT

Qimonda Completes Selling Inotera Shares to Micron

Qimonda has recently announced that the sale of its Inotera stake to Micron had been completed, as well as the receipt of the second tranche of $200 million in cash. Back in October, Qimonda and Micron inked an agreement through which Micron was to purchase Qimonda's shares in Inotera for $400 million in cash in...

28 November 2008
05:07 GMT

Micron Demonstrates 1 GB/s SSD

According to a video posted on Micron’s new blog, the company managed to develop a solid state drive that could reach the fastest speeds ever recorded by such a product. To be more specific, the video demonstrates a SSD that reaches data transfer rates of 800 MB/s while also being able to expand to apparently a...

26 November 2008
05:05 GMT

Micron Preps for Mass Producing 256GB SSDs

Micron Technology is set to launch a 256 solid-state drive early next year, while also getting ready to move into mass production with the drive for consumer use in March 2009. The announcement comes after the news that the company is preparing, along with Intel, to start a new manufacturing process, 34 nanometer, wi...

25 November 2008
02:24 GMT

Micron Announces New e-MMC with 32GB

Yesterday, Micron, one of the worldwide leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its latest e-MMC embedded devices. With 32GB, Micron's latest product, which is fully compliant with MMC standards, provides the highest densities available on today's market.The company also announced t...

14 August 2008
07:56 GMT

Micron Intros New Consumer and Enterprise SSDs

Micron, a flash-based products manufacturer, introduced yesterday its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives designed for enterprise computing and notebook applications. The company has brought to light two new models, the RealSSD P200 and the RealSSD C200, meant to bring about a boost in capacity, power and perf...

5 August 2008
07:55 GMT

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-...

29 May 2008
11:18 GMT

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 b...

22 April 2008
10:23 GMT

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 n...

16 April 2008
11:24 GMT

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 elemen...

2 April 2008
09:54 GMT

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 st...

27 March 2008
18:41 GMT

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...

3 March 2008
08:48 GMT

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.T...

21 February 2008
10:02 GMT

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...

11 February 2008
10:43 GMT

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 specificat...

1 February 2008
03:39 GMT

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 Cor...

21 January 2008
10:51 GMT

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 Twiste...

8 January 2008
09:15 GMT

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 millio...

21 December 2007
10:47 GMT

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 STMicroelectr...

14 December 2007
11:05 GMT

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 mm˛. This achievement was possible due to Micron's previous technology, called 6F2. Another key point o...

13 December 2007
02:57 GMT

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-...

4 December 2007
09:05 GMT

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 dri...

30 November 2007
05:08 GMT

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 im...

30 November 2007
03:10 GMT

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, t...

29 November 2007
09:31 GMT

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 mak...

3 October 2007
09:38 GMT

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. How...

4 May 2007
09:22 GMT

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 something unique on the market and includes an anti-shake fe...

13 April 2007
05:27 GMT

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 product...

26 March 2007
03:30 GMT

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,...

5 March 2007
11:11 GMT


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