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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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Intel has been busy at this year's IDF event, speaking of many things, even a certain memory solution that is supposedly vastly superior to existing DRAM chips.
People probably know that the DRAM segment hasn't been doing too well over the past year, since demand remained weak, causing repeated price dr... |
16 September 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Eager to equip set-top boxes, networking, automotive and various other sorts of applications with better memory, Micron has revealed its newest NOR memory devices.Micron has been making NOR flash memory for quite a while, so it is no shock to learn of a new line of such products.The company even went all out and mad... |
26 August 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Micron and Elpida are usually known as rivals on the market for semiconductor products, but if certain reports are true the two might end up joining forces in order to compete with a certain other strong presence in the field.Partnerships on the IT market can be seen as more or less just as common as lawsuits are fo... |
21 June 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Solid state drives managed to deliver a huge performance increase over their platter-based counterparts, but a team at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is determined to make these devices a lot faster by using phase-change memory (PCM).
The team, which includes both student and faculty members, plans ... |
6 June 2011
16:01 GMT |
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PCI Express solid state drives have proven to be extremely popular in the enterprise world, so Micron has announced a model of its own, the RealSSD P320h, which has now become the first drive to feature a native PCI-E SSD controller.
Usually, PCI Express solid state drives are built by connecting together a series... |
2 June 2011
08:14 GMT |
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As everyone pretty much expected, Intel and Micron have expanded their NAND Flash memory joint venture operations with the official opening of a third production facility, located in Singapore. The fab will manufacture 25nm NAND memory using 300mm wafers.
While the official opening of the facility just took place ... |
21 April 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Even though 25nm NAND Flash is just beginning to make its appearance in solid state disks, Intel and Micron have announced that they have begun sampling NAND Flash chips built using the 20nm fabrication process, which should enable SSD makers to deliver even cheaper drives.
The first 20nm NAND Flash is built at an... |
15 April 2011
02:39 GMT |
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After what can only be described as a long wait, Crucial has finally made the prices of its m4 solid state disks (also known as the Micron RealSSD C400) official and these closely resemble the cost of the company's previous SSD models while it offers faster sequential transfer speeds.
Right now, Crucial has o... |
6 April 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Tower Semiconductor has just announced that the company is seeking to buy a Micron Technology wafer fab that is found in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, for $140 million as the company seeks to expand its production capacity and presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tower Semiconductor is a specialty found... |
4 April 2011
09:24 GMT |
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It is no mystery that solid state drives are getting more and more widespread, but for those that would like to know better why this is happening, Micron touched on the subject during its weekly conference call with financial analysts. Solid state drives have several advantages compared to the more traditional hard d... |
25 March 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Micron's RealSSD C400 series of solid state drives has been keenly awaited by many computer hardware enthusiasts looking for a high performance storage disk, and the wait is now over as the first drives have already been listed and are available for purchase.
Announced at the beginning of January, the Micron ... |
18 March 2011
08:55 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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Unhappy with the transfer rates offered by the DDR3 technology, Micron has started to develop a new type of memory that promises to deliver 20 times more performance than the chips used in today's computers.
This new technology is called "Hybrid Memory Cube" and promises to tap in into the full performance of... |
14 February 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Micron has just announced that the company acquired Canon's stake in Tech Semiconductor Singapore for approximately $121 million, the memory chip vendor becoming the sole owner of the venture and its 300mm wafer fabrication facilities.Before this deal was signed, the Idaho-based semiconductor manufacturer held 9... |
31 January 2011
10:55 GMT |
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As solid state disks go down in price and raise in capacity, such solutions become ever more popular for notebook manufacturers, so Micron has just announced that it has developed a new SSD line that is specially designed for laptop use.
This new drive family is available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, ran... |
4 January 2011
08:44 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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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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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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With the advent of pico projectors, more and more manufacturers have started to incorporate such devices into their products, cameras and camcorders being the first to step into this world, however Micron thinks there's even more room for improvement so it launched its new V100 LCOS solution that should enable m... |
20 October 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Micron issued the periodic update on its financial situation and it seems that the company has quite a few things to brag about, considering that it scored a solid revenue growth and a record sum in cash flows from operations. The 2010 fiscal year, for Micron at least, has now concluded and the company was quite pro... |
8 October 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Lawsuits in the IT industry are about as common as they are in any other field, and is seems that a new one has just sprouted between Oracle and Micron over alleged sales of overpriced memory to Sun Microsystems.It seems that releasing multi-core processors and planning on buying major chip companies is not all that... |
28 September 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Some time ago, Intel and Micron set up a joint venture known as IM Flash Technologies, meant to develop better NAND manufacturing processes, and it looks like the company is making the major step towards finally selling its latest and smallest chip to date.What the joint venture announced was that it has now started... |
18 August 2010
02:26 GMT |
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Micron Technology has been especially active on the Flash storage market lately, and has now unveiled the latest device it has come up with, namely the RealSSD P300, an enterprise-grade solid state drive capable of high random read and random write speeds.Solid state drives are gaining ground on not just the enterpr... |
12 August 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Now that analysts are predicting a rapid growth for both netbooks and tablets, it makes sense that all IT players would want to take advantage of this potential for growth one way or another. Micron is one of those companies, and the means by which it plans to make its mark seems to have taken the form of a speciall... |
27 July 2010
11:25 GMT |
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Micron has been periodically announcing its invention of some new type of memory chip or another, each time enabling the manufacture of better, larger and more power efficient flash-based storage devices or memory products. This time around though, the company decided to unveil its plans for a certain type of memory... |
1 July 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Back in 2006, after seeing how quickly Flash memory was growing in popularity, Intel and Micron decided to pool their resources and create a joint venture meant to conduct research and development of NAND Flash chips. This allowed both partners to become quite prominent on the SSD front, to the point where Intel deci... |
19 May 2010
02:37 GMT |
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Micron Technology, Inc. recently announced the sampling of monolithic 2-gigabit (Gb) low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) memory device aimed at offering battery life improvements and enhanced system performance to smartphones and smartbooks. According to the company, the new 2Gb LPDDR2 can be included in handsets either as a st... |
21 April 2010
04:21 GMT |
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Micron seems to be growing up quite fast now that its DRAM and NAND sales are picking up speed. In fact, instead of suffering further losses, similar to those incurred in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, the company has made quite solid profits during the quarter that ended on March 4 (the second quarter of FY... |
2 April 2010
08:54 GMT |
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Micron seems to be doing quite well for itself on the SSD market, especially considering that its C300 RealSSD has only recently been introduced. Despite its youth, the storage unit seems to have garnered a very positive response on the part of performance-demanding users, thanks to its very high data-transfer rates,... |
1 April 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Micron has announced that it is acquiring the innovative memory architectures and technologies of Numonyx Holdings B.V. This move will strengthen the company's position as a top-tier supplier of NAND, DRAM and NOR memory products, especially considering that Micron sees a great potential for Numonyx's portf... |
11 February 2010
04:00 GMT |
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It seems that Samsung isn't the only company developing advanced DRAM technologies. Not long after it launched the 30nm DRAM, Micron and Nanya are presenting their own advancement in this field, namely the 42nm process technology that enables the creation of DRAM modules of up to 16GB. This 42nm process allows f... |
9 February 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Micron announced its Crucial-branded C300 solid state drives back in early December, when it claimed that its SSDs would be able to reach read and write speeds of 355MBps and 215MBps, respectively, thanks to their compatibility with the SATA 6Gbps interface. More recently, the RealSSD C300 scored quite big when a rev... |
4 February 2010
05:33 GMT |
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IMFT is a joint venture between Intel and Micron, through which the two companies strive to bring about advancements in the area of flash storage. The joint venture already has a reputation for being the first to develop sub-40nm NAND, as well mass-producing it. More recently, the two companies further increased thei... |
1 February 2010
03:06 GMT |
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