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Corsair Unveils High-Performance X256 SSD

Corsair is a recognizable brand in the high-end memory market, providing computer enthusiasts with reliable products that are designed to deliver high performance levels. The company has expanded its portfolio with a couple of Flash-based storage solutions, including high-performance Solid State Drives. Just recently...

25 August 2009
08:42 GMT

Corsair Announces New Extreme SSD Series

Corsair, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based memory and storage solutions, has recently updated its line of high-performance Solid State Drives with the introduction of a new Extreme Series line. According to the company, its new family of high-end SSDs will be made available in storage capacities ...

16 July 2009
10:06 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

Rumor Mill: Intel 32nm SSDs to Be Announced in Two Weeks

According to reports on the Internet, the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant Intel is about to update its offering of Flash-based storage solutions with the addition of new products that will take advantage of its new 32nm-based NAND chips. Although these pieces were previously expected for a Q4 release, it now...

29 June 2009
02:11 GMT

Patriot Further Expands Its SSD Lineup with Torqx SSD Series

Earlier this month, Patriot Memory announced the latest addition to its line of Flash-based Solid State Drives, with the introduction of the new Fusion series. Following the Fusion series, Patriot Memory announced today the expansion of its SSD lineup with the introduction of the new Torqx SSD series, designed to pro...

12 May 2009
08:20 GMT

Apple Buying a 'World' of Flash RAM for New iPhone

It is being reported that Apple is buying a lot of NAND flash supplies for a next-gen handset. AppleInsider has spotted a report issued on the flash RAM market, indicating that Apple is inhaling supplies of memory components in preparation for the next generation iPhone. The move has allegedly caused part shortages a...

20 February 2009
03:52 GMT

Numonyx Announces 41nm NAND Flash Devices

Numonyx, a well known supplier of NOR flash memory, has announced the introduction of a series of NAND flash memory devices developed under the advanced 41nm and 48nm process technology. According to the company, the new products are meant to strengthen its position in the NOR and managed NAND markets, with the main ...

18 December 2008
02:55 GMT

Samsung to Mass Produce 65nm PRAM Next Year

Samsung Electronics is set to start the mass production of 512MB PRAM (Phase change RAM) during the first half of the next year, as the company works on keeping its leading position in the memory market. Samsung would be the first memory maker to start mass producing the 65nm 512MB PRAM in the first half of 2009. The...

12 November 2008
03:13 GMT

Violin Memory Takes SSDs to All New Heights

The solid state drive industry is growing significantly with each passing day, and, consequently, we are seeing better, more advanced and faster solutions being released on the market. The latest in the world of SSD storage comes from Violin Memory, a provider of the world's fastest and most scalable memory appl...

11 November 2008
08:55 GMT

Toshiba to Launch 43nm SLC Flash Memory

Toshiba, one of the leading manufacturers of computer NAND flash memory devices, has just announced that it plans to launch a new line-up of 43nm Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND flash memory solutions. The new devices are slated to debut on the market sometime in the first quarter of 2009. The new 43nm-built SLC NA...

29 October 2008
12:31 GMT

Super Talent Intros 0.85-Inch and 1-Inch SSDs

Super Talent is one of the leading makers of flash-based products, including solid-state drives, computer memory modules and other flash-based storage solutions. Earlier this month, the company introduced a new line of mini PCI-Express SSDs, specifically designed for ASUS Eee PC netbook systems, offering 16GB, 32GB a...

23 October 2008
04:41 GMT

Seagate to Enter SSD Market in 2009

Seagate Technology, one of the largest manufacturers of magnetic hard drives, is planning to enter the SSD market with a couple of flash-based storage solutions designed for the enterprise market. The company, which has a long story of creating traditional magnetic hard drives, is considering launching its first SSDs...

10 October 2008
09:47 GMT

Samsung Considering SanDisk Acquisition

Samsung Electronics, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, is planning to acquire SanDisk, a leading maker of flash memory card products. In an interview with Reuters and cited by the online newspaper eDaily, a representative for the South Korea-based company confirmed that Samsung was considering...

5 September 2008
08:58 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

INDILIX to Improve Upcoming SSDs

Solid State Drives are claimed to be the next best thing in the storage business, replacing the traditional HDDs, and despite recently reported issues, the upcoming flash-based storage solution is expected to improve performance and even come with a much more acceptable price tag.Indilinx, a Korean-based fabless semi...

11 August 2008
11:08 GMT

Toshiba Launches 32GB Embedded NAND Devices

Toshiba announced today the launch of the largest density NAND products, embedded flash memory devices of 32GB, which also feature full compliance with the eMMC and eSD standards. The new devices are designed for use in digital consumer products like mobile phones, video cameras, HDTV, personal navigation devices, PO...

8 August 2008
04:05 GMT

Samsung and Sun to Improve Server-grade SSDs

Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that they had managed to develop a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash memory device that was to be used in Solid State Drives. The drives that will feature the new SLC memory are expected to offer much higher endurance levels, compared with any other flash ...

18 July 2008
07:06 GMT

Solid State Drive Manufacturers Promise Better SSDs

Two days ago, we brought some news according to which Solid State Drives are not as power efficient as everybody thought they were. Even more, these flash-based drives consume more power than regular magnetic drives reducing laptop battery life. The news came from a Tom's Hardware article that put a series of SS...

4 July 2008
05:36 GMT

Seagate to Release SSD and 2-TB HDD in 2009

Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions, is seriously considering getting more involved in the SSD market. The company plans to introduce its first SSD storage next year, but the products will not be meant for the consumer market. Along with the release of its first SSD drives, Seagate also pla...

30 May 2008
07:13 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

Refurb iPhone Memory Recovered, Identity Exposed

An Oregon State police detective was able to "recover email, photos, and other user data" from an "out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone," tuaw.com is reporting. While the procedure indeed requires forensic tools to carry out, there's no telling who has access to them and who hasn't. Therefore, it is being sugg...

21 May 2008
10:33 GMT

50% Price Drop in Order for iPods and iPhone

Last year, the price for NAND flash memory dropped by as much as 60 percent, automatically plummeting the prices for devices that used them. As technology evolves adding price for different aspects, the same process is likely to be repeated this year, by almost the same margin.Analysts believe that "prices of NAND fl...

22 February 2008
08:58 GMT

Samsung's Massive Discounts May Make RAM Industry Collapse

Samsung have been reported to sell their 256 Mbit (16 Mb x 16) DDR2 graphics memory chip stock at a dangerously low price of $0.50 per unit. This situation occurs as the company is willing to unload its graphics memory stock, but it has set a price that is lower even than the competitors' manufacturing costs. Ac...

18 December 2007
11:00 GMT

Toshiba, to Join the 128 GB Solid-State Drive Startup

Toshiba has just announced that they will start manufacturing solid-state drives for their notebook PCs based on flash memory cells. The company unveiled their 32GB, 64GB and 128GB versions to be produced in three different form factors (embedded module, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes). Solid-state drives are the alter...

10 December 2007
04:47 GMT

One Terabyte Drive, Small Enough to Fit Into Your Pocket

A group of scientists at Arizona State University have managed to obtain a new and efficient type of solid-state storage memory that is alleged to be not only cheaper but also much more efficient than the current NAND pieces. This memory storage is powered by an undisclosed type of nanotechnology, which allows the cr...

6 December 2007
08:49 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

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

Electronic Chips Selling in Droves

Just like most industries, the computer and general electronics consumer ones are expected to post lower sales during the summer and high figures in the winter period when the Christmas shopping spree acts as a global catalyst increasing sales across the chart. This time, something went a little different as various ...

2 October 2007
11:09 GMT

Hynix and Ovonyx Joining Forces

Hynix Semiconductor just announced that it has signed an agreement with a number of rival companies, including Ovonyx, in order to develop a new breed of non-volatile flash memory modules that are supposed to bring greater data storage densities as well as faster access to information. The new breed of flash memory i...

2 October 2007
09:10 GMT

Toshiba and SanDisk Arguing About Simple Matters

Toshiba and SanDisk formed a partnership over eight years ago in an attempt to stay competitive on the fast growing and very volatile flash memory market. As the global demand for flash based memory solutions is increasing it put strains over the supply chain and flash manufacturers are trying to meet the demand by i...

8 September 2007
07:16 GMT

Hynix Storms The NAND Industry

Nowadays NAND based memory chips are found in almost every electronic device from music players to data storage solutions and computers, so the entire NAND memory manufacturing industry is experiencing another booming expansion after a few months of shipments decline and uncertainty. The currently adopted NAND fabric...

7 September 2007
05:22 GMT

Keeping Memory Prices Stable

After months and months of oscillating up and down, computer memory markets are finally getting more stable. Currently, DRAM memory transactions are rising in very small increments in China where computer system manufacturers and vendors are trying to capitalize of the soon to come Olympic Games.After a period of pri...

24 August 2007
06:12 GMT

Intel Announces 65nm NOR Flash

As embedded systems are gaining more and more popularity, a certain degree of performance increase is expected from them. As the main quality of this systems over desktop and mobile computer solution is their lower overall costs and low power consumption, there are only a few things that can be done in order to incre...

22 August 2007
08:47 GMT

NAND Shortages Coming

After the power outage that left six of the NAND chip production lines from Samsung in shambles, financial and market analysts predicted that the entire flash memory market will suffer from a shortage of spare chips during this time period. As the Korean hardware manufacturing company quickly restored production and ...

17 August 2007
08:15 GMT

Samsung Benefits from The NAND Market Conditions

After a long decline and recovery period, the NAND flash memory is finally beginning to get better and offer strong opportunities for memory manufacturers and vendors like Samsung Electronics. The Korean company used the favorable market conditions to increase its lead over its competitors on the NAND chips market, e...

16 August 2007
08:29 GMT

The Intel - STMicro Partnership

Intel and STMicroelectronics decided sometime ago to enter a partnership with the stated intention of developing, manufacturing and selling flash memory chips. As Intel already faced monopoly charges in Europe, the two companies waited for the European Commission's approval before merging their flash memory unit...

14 August 2007
08:22 GMT

Flash Memory Replacement

As the flash memory chips are very popular these days, hardware manufacturers seek new ways to increase their data transferring performance and capacity. The problem is that while traditional NAND based flash memory chips are pretty good in terms of both performance and storage capacity, current manufacturing techno...

10 August 2007
02:43 GMT

Beware of Memory Prices

For a while now computer memory prices are going up, one little step at a time, after a long period of free falling that created numerous financial problems among most manufacturers. Now, DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise through the rest of August, even more so after the power outage that hit the Korean prod...

9 August 2007
08:14 GMT

Flash Memory Can't Go Any Further

Flash memory chips are very popular nowadays as they can be found in almost all electronic devices that are making our lives easier. From the portable music and media players, flash based data sticks, to the solid state drives, NAND chips are expanding their reach. They become very popular due to low overall costs an...

9 August 2007
06:55 GMT

Samsung Speeds Up Production

Samsung Electronics announced that it will speed up production in order to meet its monthly targets, after the last week's incident led to the complete halt of the NAND memory chip production. The power outage forced Samsung to shut down six of its NAND production lines and discard most of the flash memory chips...

7 August 2007
07:44 GMT

Samsung Restored NAND Production

After a power outage at a NAND chip production plant in South Korea that left Samsung with almost no flash production capabilities and the entire industry that depends on NAND chips in the air, the memory manufacturer reports that all lines are now fully operational. The incident at the Kiheung production plant, near...

6 August 2007
05:04 GMT

SanDisk and Micron Ride the Wave

SanDisk Corp and Micron Technology received an unexpected boost of their combined market share of flash memory chips after the main NAND memory chips producer Samsung Electronics had to stop some of its production of flash memory chips after the facility near Seoul was hit by a power outage, according to InformationW...

4 August 2007
04:37 GMT

A Replacement for Flash Memory?

Flash memory is found nowadays in a lot of electronic consumer devices like cell phones and memory sticks, but the flash memory could advance even further according to a company called Nanochip. This small company recently received VC funds from Intel, according to the news site News.com and they say that by 2010 a n...

2 August 2007
05:09 GMT

Silicon Motion Technology's Record Shipments

Silicon Motion Technology is an integrated circuits design and engineering company that just announced that its sales for the second quarter of the year 2007 reached the mark of $44.1 million which represents an increase of 111 percent from the same period during the last year and a 23 percent increase over the first...

31 July 2007
09:36 GMT

NAND Memories Are Here to Stay

Flash based memory chips are becoming more and more popular as their price drops and their storage capacity and relative performance climbs. Nowadays, flash memories can be found in many computer hardware parts (flash memory sticks, solid state drives - SSDs) and in cell phones and just any kind of mobile gadget that...

31 July 2007
03:16 GMT

One More Player on a Crowded Field

Powertech Technology Inc is a company that focused mostly on integrated circuits for memory packaging and while its business shows signs of steady growth, the company announced that it will start investments in order to expand to logic IC packaging. Mass production is expected to start the following year, according t...

27 July 2007
09:04 GMT

DRAM And NAND Memories Getting Expensive

After a long descent that left most memory manufacturers wondering if they should adopt a new line of work, the price for both DRAM computer memory and NAND flash chips rises slowly but steady. According to figures posted by DRAMeXchange and cited by the Web based news site Digitimes, after seeing the price of a 512M...

26 July 2007
11:56 GMT

Brightly Colored USB Flash Drives

USB flash drives are becoming a more popular short term storage solution by the day, mainly because they are versatile, ultra portable and shock, water and dust resistant. As their popularity grows, so does the offering from several hardware manufacturers, and the product offering is very diverse, both in terms of st...

26 July 2007
10:32 GMT

SanDisk Has Some Problems

SanDisk Corporation is one of the world's largest supplier and producer of flash storage cards. The company announced today its results for the second year's quarter that ended on the first of July. The end results are not very good as officials from SanDisk declared that, excluding the impact of acquisitio...

20 July 2007
09:07 GMT

Flash Chips Are Getting Scarcer

Two of the largest Flash manufacturers in the world, Samsung and Hynix, are having trouble producing enough NAND chips to meet demand, says vnunet.com. The Taiwan based Internet news outlet, Digitimes, cited sources from within the two major companies, and the conclusion is that the two Korean manufacturers are havin...

12 July 2007
09:08 GMT


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