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Apple May Start Cutting Off Samsung from DRAM, Flash Supply Chain

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

New Smart Modular Enterprise SSD Works at 500 MB/s

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

Sony SxS PRO Memory Card Is a Super-Fast 64 GB Model

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

First mSATA SSDs from OCZ On Pre-Order

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

Toshiba Announces WiFi-Equipped 8GB Memory Card

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

Kingston Attends Gamescom in Force, NAND and RAM Rise

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

Kingston Expects Good Things of Its NAND Business

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

Silicon Power Completes Its Latest Flash Drive Unit

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

Toshiba Gives DDR Interface to eMMC Flash Memory

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

Transcend Also Delivers a Memory Card Reader

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

Company Decides to Give Up on DRAM Business

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

Green House Creates Metal-Clad, Sturdy Flash Drives

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

Samsung ReRAM Nonvolatile Memory Shames Flash Memory

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

Chip Inventories Rise for Seventh Consecutive Month

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

Unclear Whether Or Not Memory Prices Will Recover

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

Despite Falling Prices and Other Issues, Semiconductors Do Well in May

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

Next-Gen MacBook Airs to Boast SSDs Capable of 400-Mbps

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

Samsung's 2011 LCD and Flash Demand Is Weak

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

DRAM Makers Refuse to Let prices Go Any Lower

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

Samsung MicroSD Card for Smartphones Stores 32 GB

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

Lexar Media Ships Encrypted Echo MX and ZX Flash Drives

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

Lite-On IT Gets in the SSD Game, Starts in Third Quarter

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

Japan Disaster Effects Counterbalanced By Large Chip Inventories

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

Transcend Expects to Sell 100 Million DRAM and NAND Products

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

Buffalo Creates New SATA 6.0 Gbps SSD

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

Mach Xtreme MX-Katana Low Profile SSD Unleashed

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

Kingmax Steps in With Its Own Large-Capacity MicroSD Card

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

New Class 10 MicroSDHC From Kingston Is Fast and Capacious

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

TMS Shows Off 900 GB SSD With Speed of 2 GB/s

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

Corsair Puts SandForce to Work Again, Shows Force Series 3 SSDs

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

Leak Reveals July Release For New Intel Lyndonville SSDs

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

Desktop Memory Shortage Possible in the Second Half of 2011

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

SSDs Get Really Affordable in 2012, Gartner Says

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

Samsung Formally Touts DDR2 NAND Chips of 64 Gb

New memory chips are made quite often, and it looks like Samsung delivered on its status as semiconductor company by coming up with MLC NAND chips equipped with the DDR2 interface. Since solid state drives, smartphones, tablets and other Flash-using electronics could always do with more speeds, Samsung figured it...

12 May 2011
02:46 GMT

Three New Team Group Industrial SSD Lines Debut

The thing about storage units is that they are used in pretty much every device out there that has any measure of sophistication, if only so that the OS/program run by it can be stored on it, and Team Group has just delivered three new industrial-oriented. NAND Flash-based solutions.NAND Flash storage devices have p...

11 May 2011
08:26 GMT

Mach Xtreme Prepares RAM and NAND Products for Computex

With a certain electronics show coming in, companies are, understandably, hard at work preparing the product collections they plan to show off at the site, and Mach Xtreme is not about to fall behind.The past few months have been literally packed full with new hardware of practically all kinds, especially semiconduc...

9 May 2011
07:27 GMT

SIA Says Chips Sold Really Well During First Quarter

Companies or analysts may look at CPUs, DRAM and NAND chips individually when trying to figure out how well they sold, but SIA decided to look at the semiconductor market as a whole.The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), as its name implies, keeps track of all developments on the worldwide chip market.Turns o...

3 May 2011
10:19 GMT

Kingston Prepares for Strong Embedded NAND Flash Demand

It appears that the embedded market is seeing some serious movement lately, as various companies are either unveiling new devices or, in the case of Kingston, preparing for increases in product demand.The embedded market may not get as much attention from the media as the consumer front does, but it is, nonetheless,...

2 May 2011
05:48 GMT

SanDisk Creates 19nm-Based 64 Gb NAND Flash Memory

To some, it might feel that the 20nm manufacturing process started to be used just yesterday, but it looks like an even more advanced node has been developed, courtesy of SanDisk. NAND Flash memory became important when it started to be used in mobile devices, like phones and handsets. Still, the real push came wh...

21 April 2011
02:28 GMT

Active Media Products Designs Two DOM Flash Drives

Even though the words flash drive usually act as the name for those small, stick-like storage devices one plugs into an USB port, there are other sorts of flash devices, such as DOM, two of which were just unveiled by AMP.Active Media Products is one of the multitude of companies dealing in storage units based on NA...

12 April 2011
03:51 GMT

Toshiba SmartNAND Is ECC Embedded MLC Flash Based on 24nm

It looks like, disaster or no disaster, the semiconductor industry is going forward, with Toshiba now announcing that it too has advanced to a better, 2xnm process, at least for its newest collection of MLC NAND Flash memory.Both DRAM and NAND, and the semiconductor segment as a whole, are expected to actually flour...

6 April 2011
08:22 GMT

February Sees Semiconductor Sales Rising on Year

It seems that, once again, analysts have taken a close look at what state the semiconductor market is in, and while March results are still to come, SIA established how the month of February turned out.As its name implies, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is responsible with monitoring the happenings on ...

4 April 2011
09:53 GMT

Q4 2010 Shows Semiconductor Decline After Long Time of Growth

End-users will have likely heard of the ditch the DRAM industry slid into during the later parts of 2010, and which it more or less still is in, but it seems the effects of it were more pronounced than one might expect.As far as industrial decline goes, two of the more unfortunate developments on the IT segment are ...

2 April 2011
07:06 GMT

As Expected, Forecasts Says Memory Companies Grew in March

After so many months of constantly declining prices, March seemed like a breath of fresh air, albeit a very faint one, for makers of memory products, particularly DRAM, although it is truly a bitter irony that further growth comes at the expense of a natural disaster.The memory market is that part of the IT industry...

1 April 2011
09:57 GMT

New Samsung Memory Cards Perfectly Fine Underwater

When speaking of memory cards, one would expect the main subjects of discussion to be capacity and speed, followed closely by form factor, but it looks like Samsung found a certain other asset to add to its products.Nowadays, NAND Flash memory is very widespread across practically all segments o the IT market.Variou...

28 March 2011
08:51 GMT

OCZ Trumpets 1 Million Solid State Drive Sales

Whenever a company reaches any sort of milestone, it stands to reason that it would issue an announcement to celebrate, and this is exactly what OCZ just did on the SSD industry.Nowadays, solid state drives may not really be mainstream, but they are definitely far more widespread and capable of higher capacities and...

25 March 2011
05:12 GMT

25nm Intel SSDs Get Priced, Sell Starting 28 March

There seems to be some activity over at Intel's labs, only this time it is not centered around a new CPU or another, but around the newest set of solid state drives, built out of the company's most advanced type of NAND chips yet. Solid state drives are still nowhere near the most capacious hard disk dr...

21 March 2011
03:29 GMT

Professional SDXC Memory Card from Lexar Has 128GB Capacity

It seems that Lexar is as eager as ever to supply the industry with newer and better storage solutions, in this case a high-capacity memory card that should work best for professional photographers and the like.It is no mystery that the IT market is already packed with a drove of memory cards of varying capacities, ...

16 March 2011
04:04 GMT

NAND Flash Prices Skyrocket in the Wake of Japan Disaster

It appears that many things happened because of the recent disaster in Japan, even in regards to the different segments of the IT industry, one of which seems to be progressing in a positive direction, ironically enough.There are no words that can describe just how dismal the situation in Japan is at the moment, wit...

15 March 2011
11:03 GMT

Japan Quake Also Affects NAND Flash Market

It appears that the worldwide market for NAND Flash memory chips did not get away unscathed after the natural disaster that struck Japan last week and left very serious problems in its wake.No doubt people will have already learned of the natural disaster that took place in Japan last week, namely an 8.9-magnitude e...

14 March 2011
07:28 GMT


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