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There is a new line of single-level cell NAND Flash memory chips running about, one that Macronix International has just officially announced.
The first-generation MX30LF Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash family, built with a 75 nm floating gate technology, has been formally revealed and is made up of two members,... |
10 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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We said that makers of memory products were doing poorly in terms of finances and, in tune with those reports, SanDisk is revealed to have decided to reduce the prices of its NAND products.
What Digitimes says about SanDisk is not so different from what Kingston was revealed to be doing a few days ago.
Basically,... |
7 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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We wrote that memory prices had finally stabilized, more or less, but the price point is quite low compared to what companies see as ideal.
Sure enough, reports are coming in about how makers of DRAM and NAND products have definitely seen better days.
During the month of January 2012, they saw their sales droppin... |
7 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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After losing a major patent against NVIDIA, Rambus has announced that it has acquired a privately-held memory technology company, complete with its own special portfolio.
Rambus has managed to get Unity Semiconductor to sign a deal through which the latter becomes part of the former in exchange for $35 million in c... |
6 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Though CPUs are still at the 32nm node, NAND Flash memory is actually further along, something SanDisk intends to make the best of.
SanDisk is one of the better known makers of NAND Flash products, such as memory cards, flash drives and SSDs.
It so happens that the company has begun production of memory based on t... |
30 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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2012's first couple of weeks have passed so, naturally, market watchers looked at what has been happening on the NAND Flash storage market.Apparently, product vendors decided to wait until after the Chinese New Year before committing to more orders.That allows NAND Flash chip prices to fall slightly, or so Digit... |
18 January 2012
16:37 GMT |
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The rumored Apple-Anobit acquisition is indeed going down, according to an Israeli newspaper that reports on the $500 million buyout today.Via All Things D comes word that Apple and Anobit have signed the papers by which the Cupertino giant gains full access to the latter’s flash memory technologies.Apple relie... |
20 December 2011
08:27 GMT |
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An Israeli paper reports that Apple is very much interested in buying a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in flash storage in the country. The purchase price is said to be in the $400-$500 million range.Tech news blogs and sites are pointing to a Calcalist report saying that the Cupertino company relying... |
13 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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The main advantage that companies have been saying will be possessed by TLC (triple-level cell) solid state drives (SSD) is the decrease in price, something OCZ wants to make the best of. Simply put, TLC NAND-based consumer solid state drives will be 30% less pricey than what we have today, and that is compared to ... |
4 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Saying that a product is the best at something is a bold statement, but MOSAID is mostly justified in its claim that the 256Gb HLNAND2 (HyperLink NAND) is the fastest in the industry.
After all, a chip that can work at 800 MB/s is not about to go by unnoticed, especially with a capacity of 256 Gb.
The HLNAND2, as ... |
4 November 2011
04:35 GMT |
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World-class developer of memory products, ADATA announced that it had finished making a new bunch of small memory cards for smartphones and anything else that can read microSDHC.
They are five in number, with capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, respectively.
Their greatest asset is the UHS-I (Ultra ... |
27 October 2011
08:58 GMT |
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The 830 series of Samsung solid state drives (SSDs) is one that showed up on the web a while ago but only now got officially launched by the company.
This line of NAND Flash-based storage products is entirely made by Samsung, this being the reason invoked by the company for their 'amazing performance.'
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26 October 2011
04:12 GMT |
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SanDisk issued a press release in which it said that it finished the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 on October 2, with better than average results, to put it lightly.
While the recession doesn't seem to be as bad as it was a couple of years ago, it still hasn't completely gone away.
As such, it is so... |
21 October 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Had Transcend not spent the past few years diversifying its business, it might have seriously suffered because of the DRAM demand problem but, as it is, September turned out to be quite the favorable period. Many users are probably tired of hearing about all the problems plaguing the DRAM market segment, even if th... |
8 October 2011
08:49 GMT |
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It isn't hard to guess that the chip market isn't doing so hot lately, but analysts have uncovered that things are somewhat worse than most would tend to believe.
One way of knowing whether or not demand for a specific IT segment is healthy is to look at the product stockpiles.
In other words, the Da... |
8 October 2011
06:22 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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South Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has just announced the availability of a high-performance 64-gigabyte (GB) embedded memory with 64Gb NAND, suitable for mobile devices like smartphones, tablet PCs, and more.
The new 64GB embedded multimedia card (e-MMC) will provide users with the highest performance avai... |
29 September 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Chinese tech industry sources are saying that Apple is slowly reducing its dependency on Samsung for key hardware parts, as tension between the two keeps building up, amid their ongoing patent lawsuits.The sources in question reportedly learned that Apple has recently increased its DRAM and NAND Flash orders beyond S... |
22 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Coming to offer a new product with a name that plays tricks on one's eyes and tongue, Smart Modular Technologies built a new solid state drive, one that it aimed at the enterprise sector. Solid state drives may not be too common on the enterprise front, but, as in every other eligible area of the IT industry, th... |
15 September 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Sony is building on its reputation as purveyor of all sorts of hardware products by bringing forth, according to reports anyway, a new memory card that is both very capacious and very fast.
If anything can be said about memory cards, it is that they are very varied, not just in terms of capacity and pricing, but ... |
9 September 2011
08:57 GMT |
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OCZ has once again made a move on the solid state drive market, creating a pair of product lines that aren't easy to tell apart by looks, though their insides to mark them as fairly distinct, what with different controller chips and capacity ranges.The solid state drive market is bound to keep growing, especial... |
8 September 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Toshiba is known for many things, from full-fledged PCs to batteries, and it looks like its IFA exhibition will be varied indeed, even including a special memory card of the SDHC variety.The IFA 2011 trade show in Berlin, Germany will take place between September 2 (tomorrow) and September 7.This means that many IT ... |
1 September 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Gamescom is well underway and Kingston is, unsurprisingly, present and accounted for, complete with a wide range of not just HyperX memory products, but also a number of flash products. Kingston, like various other companies, went over to Gamescom to show off an entire batch of products, memory and flash devices to... |
18 August 2011
04:31 GMT |
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There is much that can be said about the NAND Flash market segment, as can be discussed about a myriad of other things, but, this once, Kingston is taking its turn at the metaphorical microphone.Kingston is one of those IT companies that has a big stake in the semiconductor market, and this extends to both DRAM and ... |
12 August 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Silicon power has completed its latest flash drive unit, one that trades the high speeds of the latest USB interface in favor of a lower, albeit unspecified, price point, though it has other advantages, particularly physical ones.When it comes to the flash drive market, one could say that this segment is one that ha... |
5 August 2011
03:23 GMT |
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It looks like Toshiba tried its hand at hybridization when it built its newest eMMC devices, having decided to give these NAND Flash chips the DDR (double data rate) interface.There are multiple types of semiconductors and, for each type, there are subtypes and more subtypes still, each better suited to a specific t... |
4 August 2011
08:46 GMT |
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It appears that Kingston is not the only company with new card readers up for sale, as Transced also released one, more or less at the same time as its rival, though it seems to have an advantage as far as pricing goes.Most mobile computers nowadays usually have a built-in memory card reader, since it is not really ... |
2 August 2011
05:29 GMT |
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The past few quarters have seen much talk about how things have being going from bad to worse on the DRAM industry, and it looks like they might have gotten serious enough that ChipMOS decided to phase out its packaging and testing business altogether.
The semiconductor industry may not be doing too badly overall... |
16 July 2011
06:55 GMT |
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The already large collection of flash drives has now grown by one series, as Green House stepped forward and covered quite the sizable range of capacities, even some that might look out of place in this day and age.The NAND Flash storage technology, like any others, will, eventually, be surpassed by some new inventi... |
13 July 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Though NAND Flash memory has made a name for itself as the fastest storage solution currently in use, it might just be that Samsung has developed a technology that could make it look slow and weak.Solid state drives are getting cheap enough to challenge the significantly more capacious hard disk drives, while flash ... |
13 July 2011
08:28 GMT |
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Amidst attempts to rebuild stockpiles and less than stellar sales of DRAM, it looks like the worldwide supply of semiconductors ended up growing during the second quarter, in preparation for probable demand spikes.The past half a year was a period during which the Semiconductor market mostly grew, though not all chi... |
11 July 2011
10:34 GMT |
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There are things that can always be guessed at based on existing data, but it looks like the DRAM market is one whose outlook has companies divided between the optimistic and those not very so.Many users might not have made a habit of keeping tabs on the financial aspect of the IT market, but the fact remains that t... |
6 July 2011
09:13 GMT |
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One would think that, with all the news and reports about troubles on the DRAM and NAND markets, semiconductor sales wouldn't show a monthly increase, but SIA found that this is precisely what happened in May.The month of July has started and market watchers, as well as analysts, are looking to see what June br... |
6 July 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Apple is said to have adopted a 400-Mbps interface ‘Toggle DDR 2.0’ NAND flash memory for new MacBook Air, according to an Asian electronics component maker quoted by Japanese blog Makotakara. Built in a 19nm process, ToggleDDR is a NAND interface for high-performance applications which supports data rea... |
5 July 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Reports and rumors always emerge in regards to the probable marketing performance of a company or product, and it looks like Samsung is one of the latest to come under this type of scrutiny.Samsung may be seeing great results form its tablet initiative, but its other business outlets don't seem to be doing as w... |
5 July 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Even as demand continues to be weak for DRAM, makers of such memory solutions decided they can no longer reap any sort of benefit from letting prices slide any lower than they already are.It really does look like the DRAM market has still not recovered much, something that, one might say, makers of such chips figure... |
1 July 2011
09:17 GMT |
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Even as it releases one new product and update after another, Samsung invested enough time, effort and resources into creating a memory card aimed at fourth generation smartphones.Samsung has been releasing hardware products and consumer electronics for quite a while now, so it has an established portfolio.One facet... |
30 June 2011
03:03 GMT |
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When it comes to flash drives, they can perform a number of tasks and fill various roles, and it looks like Lexar went for secure backup when it built and sent out the Echo MX and ZX models.Lexar Media, being the maker of memory and NAND Flash storage devices that it is, was, naturally, not going to let too much pas... |
14 June 2011
10:14 GMT |
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It looks like more and more makers of storage units are entering the solid state drive market now that SSDs are getting cheaper and overall better than ever, with Lite-On IT being among the latest to take such a stance.Solid state drives did start out as fairly promising projects, but it was only after the TRIM... |
4 June 2011
05:15 GMT |
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It appears that, at least so far, the disaster that struck Japan in the month of March hasn't had too great an effect on the semiconductor industry, although disruptions may still emerge in the short to mid-term.The natural disaster that hit Japan on March 11 will always be remembered because of the immense dea... |
3 June 2011
04:42 GMT |
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It seems that analysts and companies are being fairly vocal about finances as of late, with Transcend being, apparently, one of the companies that intends to see is sales grow by a fair bit this year.It appears that the year 2011 really is being looked upon with hope and ambition, at least as far as some IT segments... |
27 May 2011
10:46 GMT |
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The past week has definitely seen its share of new storage solutions, especially of the external variety, but it appears that things are hardly over on this front, with Buffalo making its move as well.External storage solutions have definitely been getting bought lately, although this is hardly surprising considerin... |
26 May 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Coming to build upon its long experience in the field of memory products, Mach Xtreme has developed what it calls the MX-Katana solid state drive, one that does not exactly qualify as a common SSD.The word common can be applied to a great many things on the IT industry, from events to products, depending on the crit... |
26 May 2011
08:40 GMT |
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It appears that cramming as much capacity as possible inside tiny packages has become quite the trend nowadays, with Kingmax now stepping forward to provide a sort of alternative to what most consumers might be used to.Nowadays, there are so many mobile devices on sale that it is practically impossible to count them... |
25 May 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Kingston is known for making all sorts of storage solutions, so it is no surprise that it would come out and reveal a new one for mobile devices, especially one with the high specifications implied by its rank on the Class rating system.When it comes to mobile devices, especially smartphones, storage space has to co... |
24 May 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Solid state drives have been getting faster and more capacious, and it looks like Texas Memory Systems figured this was a good time to have one make good use of the PC Express interface.Solid state drives have been getting quite popular ever since they were first developed several years ago, and it looks like their ... |
23 May 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Corsair may already have a complete bunch of solid state drives running around the worldwide market, but this did nothing to stop it from unleashing yet another collection, known as Force Series 3.In the history of solid state drives, SandForce is one company that will be remembered for a long time as the creator of... |
16 May 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Even though Intel is still best known for its central processors, its SSD business seems to be picking up speed, or at least getting more of a push, with a roadmap suggesting that July is when a new storage unit of that sort will arrive.If anything, solid state drives have been getting overall better, meaning that p... |
16 May 2011
03:10 GMT |
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When it comes to predictions in a certain field of the IT market, those directly involved with it have just as much say, if not more, than market analysts, and it looks like one such prediction was made by Transcend.The thing about the NAND Flash and DRAM memory markets is that they are often taken together and spok... |
12 May 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The price problem that solid state drives have has not yet gone away, but a certain analyst firm believes it will be resolved by next year, meaning that the mainstream market will finally have an easier time of integrating them.Solid state drives, those storage units, usually of the 2.5-inch form factor, which are b... |
12 May 2011
05:34 GMT |
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