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NAND flash memory controller IC design houses believe that the market demand status is improving after having prices cut down back in June. Still, the growth seems to be only a small one. Most leading controller IC design houses see demand warming-up and are expecting to have double-digit sales growth during July. Sa... |
22 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Korean solid-state drive manufacturer Mtron has just announced a new solid-state device in its PRO 7500 series of professional drives. The new offering is primarily targeted at industrial environments, where solid-state drives play a key role, given the fact that their lack of moving parts makes them resistant to sho... |
16 May 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Despite the fact that solid-state drives are mostly purchased by a small niche of customers, Toshiba plans to boost its presence on the NAND-based storage market until 2010. The news was broken by the company's president and CEO, Atsutoshi Nishida, during a corporate strategy meeting."We aim to win at least a 50... |
9 May 2008
11:28 GMT |
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Hardware manufacturer Super Talent has just announced mass availability for its industry slimmest solid state drive that packs 256GB of storage space in a few square inches. Called the FSD56GC25H, the newest offering from Super Talent comes with a SATA-I interface and is completely interchangeable with any SATA-based... |
26 March 2008
10:53 GMT |
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US-based semiconductor startup Nanochip claims to have made significant progress in its array-based memory research that will result in soon-to-arrive storage prototypes with immediate shipment. According to Gordon Knight, Nanochip CEO, the new memory will be efficient for at least 10 generations.The new kind of flas... |
20 March 2008
11:47 GMT |
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Toshiba has just announced that it had started shipping 128 GB solid state drives built with the multi-level cell NAND flash technology, while other versions are still in the works. The newly released drives are far from the conventional 2.5-inch storage units, as they come in a 15 gram embedded module form factor.To... |
19 March 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Intel has launched its miniature Z-P140 PATA solid-state disks just before this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Both tiny and energy-efficient, the drives are suitable for the upcoming generations of ultra-mobile PCs and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) that are expected to kick in soon. It is true ... |
11 March 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Toshiba and SanDisk have jointly announced that they have inked a non-binding memorandum to set the basis of a production joint venture with a 300-mm wafer fabrication plant in Japan. The two companies will produce NAND flash memory using their proprietary technologies.The joint venture is still in an early stage, an... |
19 February 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Solid-state storage is continuously gaining more and more attention from the mobile enthusiasts. Flash-based storage is thinner, more energy-saving and has better access timings than the conventional hard-disk drives. They are the best pick for notebooks such as the ethereal MacBook Air or Lenovo's Thinkpad X300... |
15 February 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Nanochip Technology, a memory and storage research company has received $14 million in research funds to finish its work on some technology prototypes that will revolutionize the storage industry. The prototypes will be hopefully shipped to electronics device makers for extensive evaluations during the next year.The ... |
12 February 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Intel has successfully created a viable replacement for the nowadays NAND flash memory and now is shipping its first units of phase change memory chips. While SanDisk is desperately trying to revive the (already) old NAND flash technology and extend its capacity, Intel ships its first units of the "Alverstone" 256 Mb... |
7 February 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Hard-disk drives are a common appearance in any personal computer and have a long tradition, dating back in the late '50s. It was improved and enhanced over the time, but its basic operating principle has not changed much. The advent of the newer storage media, known as the solid-state drives is the first signif... |
7 February 2008
04:48 GMT |
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SanDisk has just announced a breakthrough in its three-bit-per-cell NAND flash memory manufacturing process. This is not all, as the company is cooking yet another surprise: it will start production of 43-nanometer multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory to replace its current 56-nanometer process.The 43-nanometer M... |
7 February 2008
03:29 GMT |
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The phase-change memory (PCRAM), also known as chalcogenide RAM or C-RAM is thought to be a viable alternative to the nowadays' non-volatile, memory-based technologies such as NAND flash. The NAND memory prices have dramatically dropped lately, but this type of memory is still expensive and has its limitations.... |
5 February 2008
04:06 GMT |
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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 |
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Remember the Asus Eee PC crisis that hit the market just before the Christmas shopping season? The Eee PC was really hard to snatch, and everyone was asking why Asustek had not produced even more units. Well, first of all, Asus was not aware of the device's popularity at that time. Secondly, although Asus had th... |
28 January 2008
06:33 GMT |
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Portable consumer electronics applications that need storage space have long since switched to NAND-Flash based devices, putting an end to the popular 1.8-inch miniature hard disk drives. Flash memory is more energy-efficient, offer faster access times and takes physical shocks better than the sinning platters.The mi... |
10 January 2008
11:40 GMT |
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OCZ has announced and demonstrated their first SSD drives to feature 32 GB and 64 GB storage capacities. The demonstration took place within the Consumer Electronics Show, and the company claimed that these two models are the beginning of a new line of solid-state products OCZ will develop soon.Although some solid-st... |
9 January 2008
04:23 GMT |
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The solid-state drives market has become the favorite place for companies to bully one another in a cut-throat competition for achieving the largest storage density. Few manufacturers managed to overcome the 100 GB barrier: Micron, Buffalo, STEC and the all-time champion, BiTMICRO. Now it's Ritek's time to ... |
7 January 2008
02:49 GMT |
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The hard-disk industry has returned to profitability in the third quarter of the last year, as the storage market has finally landed on firm ground. Research company iSuppli recently issued a report about the situation on the hard-disk storage market.The industry managed to ship about 138 million units in the third q... |
4 January 2008
09:13 GMT |
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We have told you about Intel's NAND Flash-based solid-state drive, called the Z-P140. Some may say that the drive is yet another one in a long row of solid-state drives. Well, Intel's NAND Products Group would heavily disagree here, as their disk managed to squeeze 16 GB of data on a surface the size of a p... |
4 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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The flash storage has been one of the technologies that have undoubtedly changed the face of consumer electronics appliances. It can store a large amount of data on a tiny surface, at the cost of only a few milliwatts. DRAM memory needs permanent refreshing to preserve its contents, but Flash storage can do without p... |
27 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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Although 16 GB UDMA CompactFlash cards are not exactly growing on trees, it seems that they're becoming increasingly popular among semi-pro and professional photographer, due to their high access speeds, large capacities and, more importantly, to the emergence of digital cameras that can actually take advantage ... |
7 December 2007
08:50 GMT |
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The South-Korean company Samsung is one of the world's most important manufacturers of NAND flash modules (as well as other types of memory chips as well), and it seems that, although its core production facilities are located in Korea, it's looking forward to opening new production lines elsewhere, amid an... |
22 November 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Size matters when it comes to your music, and big fish in the industry know that best. Creative keeps up the good work by popping out in the wild the first 32 GB flash jukebox. The news became official after somebody spotted an unintentional slip-up on the company's website for its home country of Singapore. On ... |
22 November 2007
04:56 GMT |
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Flash memory clearly represents the future of storage, as it provides certain very important advantages over its disk-based counterparts, as for example the reliability, size and even data transfer rates. And in order to further enhance the technical "prowess" of NAND modules, the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFi) Wor... |
15 November 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Installing the computer's operating system on a separate partition (or a separate drive altogether) has become a common practice among a lot of computer users around the world, as this configuration enables faster access speeds and a higher overall performance level of the respective PC or laptop. However, it se... |
14 November 2007
12:56 GMT |
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It's becoming quite clear that SSDs (or solid state drives) most likely represent the future of storage solutions, at least as far as mid-range portable and desktop computing solutions are concerned, as they provide relatively large storage capacities, as well as a higher level of resilience to shocks. And now t... |
5 November 2007
03:31 GMT |
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The Flash memory module market is a very crowded and busy one and there are quite a lot of companies out there that claim they're the original inventors, or "parents" of the Flash storage memory modules. One of these companies is SanDisk, who has decided to take some measures against its competitors and filed th... |
25 October 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Samsung is the world's largest supplier of NAND Flash memory modules and in order to maintain its position, the company's constantly trying to improve on the design of its chips, besides trying to make the manufacturing processes more efficient. And yet another proof of Samsung's sustained efforts come... |
23 October 2007
06:06 GMT |
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A while ago, Hacha manufacturers decided to slim down the PC20 portable media player to get to the mere 7.7mm in thickness. Back then, the company kept the technical specifications list secret, and revealed only some info regarding the 3 inches on the diagonal. But, today we're happy to give you the detailed fea... |
18 September 2007
04:56 GMT |
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Toshiba has announced that it has developed a new series of embedded NAND Flash memories for mobile phones that offer both a configurable single-level cell (SLC) memory area and a multi-level cell (MLC) memory area, allowing applications and data to be stored on the same chip. The new products will allow mobile phon... |
22 June 2007
09:26 GMT |
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As some of you might know, Toshiba is one of the first companies that worked on the development of NAND flash memory, actually claiming that it invented it back in 1986. Although it's not quite sure that they were actually the first (the beginnings of NAND flash are still shrouded in mystery, as many companies w... |
13 June 2007
01:32 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation and Qimonda have agreed to collaborate on providing a new mobile storage solution. The Multi-Chip Package (MCP) provided will use SanDisk's NAND flash and controllers, whereas Qimonda will provide low power mobile DRAM. Kin Wah Loh, Chief Executive Officer at Qimonda, declared that "Offering ... |
26 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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