| Intel and STMicro Joint Venture Delayed for Lack of Cash |
 | Numonyx, the Flash joint venture between Intel, Francisco Partners and STMicroelectronics has been rescheduled for March 28, 2008 due to the companies' facing "significant turmoil" in the financial markets.
The decision has been confirmed by all the chip manufacturers involved in the Numonyx project. The original announcement stated that the new flash memory venture was to start on January the 1st 2008. The th ... [read more >>] |
| 27 December 2007, 09:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Serial Flash Memory Gains Speed |
 | STMicroelectronics, a computer hardware company that specializes itself in the manufacture of flash based memory chips, announced today the immediate availability of a new circuit, the M25PX32, that is the first of the Serial Flash memory circuits to come with Dual I/O. The former family of circuits, the M25PE, stood up because of its high granularity, while the new M25PX family stands out thanks to its guaranteed high-speed perf ... [read more >>] |
| 28 August 2007, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 units.
"The Commission found that strong competitors are present for each of these products and customers would ... [read more >>] |
| 14 August 2007, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |