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The more advanced a manufacturing node is, the faster and more power efficient semiconductors become, which is why all makers of NAND, DRAM and processing chips strive to advance as quickly as possible.
We've already seen Toshiba starting production of 19nm chips, and now we learn that SanDisk is doing the same... |
21 May 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Hybrid storage devices were few and far between last year, and almost unheard of prior to that, but now they are considered the next big thing on the storage industry, due to the price-capacity-performance ratio. WD and SanDisk are now pushing them faster.
Solid-state drives, made from NAND Flash memory chips, have... |
8 May 2013
03:05 GMT |
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SanDisk has released a firmware update for their Ultra+ SSD. Version X2306RL is installed with the help of a toolkit, provided by the manufacturer.
This update enhances UECC robustness in the event of an unexpected system power loss as well as thermal throttling responsiveness under high-temperature low-power states... |
22 April 2013
08:11 GMT |
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SanDisk has just announced at this year’s CES two new SSDs for those who don’t want to spend a fortune on a great mix of storage space and fast transfer speed.
The new Ultra Plus SSD aimed at the retail channel and the X110 SSD for OEM customers provide a peak read speed of 530 MB/s, while the writing pr... |
7 January 2013
10:26 GMT |
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The CompactFlash association has announced a new type of memory card, so SanDisk decided to quickly provide products based on it, even it is hasn't reached the point where it feels confident enough to mass-produce them.
The new memory card specification is called CFast2.0 and features a theoretical maximum tra... |
18 September 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Earlier, we detailed the PX-Series SSDs from Toshiba and mentioned how they were released on the same occasion as the 25th anniversary of the NAND Flash market as a whole, so we may as well make a proper note of this occasion.
Flash memory didn't become known on the PC front until a few years ago, when it bega... |
21 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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SanDisk turned out to have had a much more accurate sales forecast for the second quarter of the year (2012), but that isn't really a good thing, despite the seemingly optimistic press release. SadDisk's revenues fell by a great deal, both year-over-year and compared to the quarter prior to the one now un... |
20 July 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Since we covered the fastest flash drive from SanDisk, we may as well do the same for the thinnest and the one with the highest number of gigabytes.
We'll first go over the one who is neither of those things though: Cruzer Facet. Housed in a stainless steel frame, it has a faceted texture, various color option... |
19 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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SanDisk has just finished releasing several flash drive units, one of which is capable of the highest transfer speed ever. And by highest, we mean highest among SanDisk's devices, though you would be hard-pressed to find a quicker device of this sort anywhere else. Long story short, the transfer speed, over US... |
19 June 2012
10:56 GMT |
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We've seen that SanDisk has begun production of 19nm chips, but there are some products at its Computex 2012 booth that cater to more immediate concerns. The company's exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan covers all its business avenues, but we are only going to look at one right now: enterprise storage. SanDisk... |
7 June 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Much like Toshiba, SanDisk has started mass production of its latest and best NAND Flash storage chips, designed and built on the 19nm manufacturing process technology. SanDisk has begun its campaign on the nascent storage market segment rather differently than Toshiba did not long ago. The latter kicked things o... |
5 June 2012
03:10 GMT |
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SanDisk's Extreme-series SSDs are really awesome in terms of speed in their own consumer-oriented range, but issues started to be reported not long ago.
And SanDisk has not kept customers waiting in their unhappy state, but went forth and came up with a new firmware to have the problems fixed. Like with ... |
2 May 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Since devices running Windows 8 are going to come out a lot this year, SanDisk decided it would secure its future by tying it to theirs, so it set about forming as many alliances as it could.
The company has issued a press release in which it talks about its iNAND Extreme memory and how it has been adopted by Intel... |
27 February 2012
04:51 GMT |
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There is a new memory chip in the house, one that claims to be the world's smallest in its category, with a die size of 170 square millimeters.
The new chip, created jointly by SanDisk and Toshiba, is a TLC (three-bit-per-cell) NAND semiconductor device.
It is the sort of chip used in the making of USB flash... |
23 February 2012
04:27 GMT |
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We saw that SanDisk formed an exclusive partnership with Diskeeper and, now, the same company is revealed to have initiated the process for acquiring FlashSoft.FlashSoft is a developer of software for enterprises that want to make do with smaller and cheaper storage configurations but still operate optimally.Among ot... |
16 February 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Fresh from releasing not one but two new series of solid state drives, SanDisk has announced a partnership that will further extend its IP portfolio in NAND storage.
It looks like SanDisk has a full set of solid state drive caching technology now to call its own, more or less.
Having formed an alliance with Diske... |
16 February 2012
05:58 GMT |
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IT appears that SanDisk has more than one product line to show, though the second one is of the same type as the X100 solid state drives revealed not long ago.
The second product collection that the company has officially introduced this week bears the name of SanDisk Extreme SSD.
As the name implies, the product ... |
15 February 2012
07:33 GMT |
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There is a new range of solid state drives on the market, one that SanDisk developed and equipped with not just high performance but also advanced error checking and recovery features.
The new series of SSDs from SanDisk is called X100 and is primarily aimed at client computers, particularly ultrabooks and other ul... |
15 February 2012
05:01 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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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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Those who believe that SSD sales will be lackluster have already said their piece, so SanDisk is taking its turn at painting a brighter picture for the storage devices.
SanDisk is one of the primary suppliers of solid state drives around the world, so it makes sense that it would look at its future in the most opti... |
26 January 2012
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SDXC cards are not exactly very many in number, but Silicon Power is eagerly playing its part in changing that, having completed its latest such item.
According to Silicon Power, the SDXC UHS-I 64 GB Class 10 memory card “brings absolutely the best of the transmission speed.”
That is about as bold as s... |
18 January 2012
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One would think that a new and promising memory card standard would be quick to get the support of all companies that would benefit from marketing it, but that does not seem to be the case for XQD.
Looks like only two of the four companies known to be planning on selling XQD cards are actually going to apply haste ... |
17 January 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Though already advancing faster than most other tech products, memory cards have accelerated in their evolution yet again, this time thanks to SanDisk, a company that just launched two new SDXC models. It is safe to say that SanDisk has just made the day of professional photographers with no financial constraints. ... |
10 January 2012
03:18 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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Today's smartphones and tablet PCs come with microSD memory card slots with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space, yet a time will come when more external storage will be supported by them. In fact, the first memory cards that offer more storage space than that are already available for purchase,... |
17 September 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Those who though SanDisk didn't have anything up its sleeve besides the memory Vault were sorely mistaken, as that particular item is actually in the minority, according to the new press release. SanDisk released a new storage drive, one that is aimed at holding important photos and videos for 100 years (we co... |
14 September 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Storage solutions meant to withstand time crop up from time to time, and it looks like SanDisk is the latest to offer something of the sort, in the shape of the Memory Vault flash drive.
When it comes to storing data, there are many means of doing it, each one with a different degree of reliability and affordabil... |
14 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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SanDisk may have actually outdone itself with its latest solid state drive standard, since it isn't every day that a product, which is already praised for power efficiency, gets to become so much less energy-hungry. Solid state drives have, so far, been gaining market share thanks to their high speeds and low ... |
13 September 2011
09:56 GMT |
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SanDisk is known for its many storage solutions, but it seems to be gathering more and more attention in a different field, that of consumer electronics focused on multimedia.The past few years have seen technology taking a turn for the high, even though the economy has not been all that favorable.As such, more or l... |
25 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Being the consortium of companies responsible with making sure the SATA interface keeps up with the times, SATA-IO issued a press release in which it reveals that it has finished the latest embedded SSD specification.Embedded NAND Flash is the sort of memory that is found in such mobile computing platforms as ultrat... |
10 August 2011
04:05 GMT |
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SanDisk has just announced the introduction of the Ultra series of solid state drives, which are designed to come as a quick upgrade path for users wanting to get more performance out of their laptop or desktop systems.
SanDisk's new SSD line comprises three drive models, which offer 60GB, 120GB and 240GB of ... |
26 July 2011
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It appears that SanDisk figured this was a good time for its collection of enterprise solid state drives to expand, so it presented six new 6 Gb SAS models based on either SLC or MLC NAND Flash memory.Apparently, SanDisk finished its newest batch of enterprise solid state drives, which definitely don't resemble... |
20 June 2011
10:20 GMT |
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It appears that SanDisk's recently released set of solid state drives, or at least some of them, have already found a home in the new series of ASUS ultraportable laptops known as the UX line.Since Computex 2011 turned out to be the same visitor magnet as every other year, ASUS delivered quite a few different p... |
1 June 2011
08:26 GMT |
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It appears that SanDisk, like so many other companies, decided to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the Computex 2011 trade show to come forth and deliver some new solid state drives.Since the 2011 Computex trade show is underway, many IT players have or will soon grab attention thanks to their newest pr... |
1 June 2011
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While HDD makers are buying each other off, it looks like operations of this sort are happening on the SSD market as well, with SanDisk now announcing that it has stuck a deal with Pliant Technology.SanDisk is already known as a worldwide supplier of NAND Flash storage solutions, but it looks like it wants a more ac... |
17 May 2011
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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 |
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SanDisk seems to be especially eager to please at this edition of the Mobile World Congress, as its solid state storage portfolio seems to include more than just newer and more compact embedded SSDs.Not long ago, SanDisk issued a press release in which it announced how its next-generation iNAND and iNAND Ultra embed... |
14 February 2011
03:58 GMT |
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With all the new tablets coming out, SanDisk figured it was high time it revealed its newest generation of embedded iNAND storage, one that places emphasis on physical compactness, so as to enable thinner and lighter form factors.Tablets may not have been practical a few years ago, but the development of better touc... |
14 February 2011
03:28 GMT |
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While Transcend is dealing with new solid state drives, SanDisk is promoting a different sort of Flash-based storage solution, namely a new SDHC memory card meant for photo cameras and video capture.The newest SDHC memory card that SanDisk came up with is dubbed SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I.It is based on the most... |
17 January 2011
09:30 GMT |
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The advanced photo and video cameras currently available on the market require plenty of space for storing HD videos or large-size photos, not to mention some high data transfer rates as well, and that's exactly the reason why SanDisk brought to this year's CES a brand-new CF card model, delivering extreme ... |
6 January 2011
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After a long time when solid state drives were arguably too expensive for most applications, compared to HDDs, SanDisk and NDS claim that, by combining the SanDisk P4 SSDs with the latter's MediaHighway STB software, a new range of low-cost set-top boxes with DVR functionality can be created.According to the tw... |
9 September 2010
05:41 GMT |
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SanDisk seems to have struck again on the flash storage market, because not only has it developed a new type of solid state drive, but it actually made it capable of storing up to 64GB of data while being only slightly larger than a fingernail and almost weightless. Basically, SanDisk created a 64 GB chip that will ... |
18 August 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Over the past few months, Flash storage solutions developers brought out a significant number of flash drives with high storage capacities or very advanced encryption protocols. They all excelled in one or multiple areas, whether they dealt with security, performance and reliability. Still, SanDisk decided it was tim... |
27 July 2010
10:31 GMT |
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In order to keep up with the advancements in power efficiency and performance, chip makers need to periodically move to more advanced process technologies. SanDisk is right in the middle of its transition to the 32nm manufacturing node, and reports say that it is already seeing high yields. What is more important, ho... |
23 July 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Now that it has, more or less, finished with the largest part of new PC releases, Toshiba seems to have decided upon focusing on a different aspect of its business. Apparently, the company figured it was time for a serious boost to its NAND Flash memory offering. As such, it approached SanDisk, another major NAND Fl... |
14 July 2010
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With OCZ unleashing a new line of PCI Express SSDs, SanDisk was not about to just sit idly by, which is why it put together a pair of solid state modules of its own. Unlike those from its competitor, these are designed for the SATA 3.0Gbps interface, and, thus, while not as fast or capacious as the RevoDrive, are mor... |
1 June 2010
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Leading provider of in flash memory cards SanDisk Corporation announced today the launch of the first 32 gigabyte (GB) SanDisk microSDHC card, the world’s highest-capacity removable memory card available at the moment for mobile phones. The new microSDHC card comes with a high level of freedom and flexibility ... |
23 March 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Even though the actual shipments weren't supposed to start for some time, SandDisk has somehow managed to get its G3 Series solid state drives up and running ahead of schedule and is now shipping them to North American and European retailers. Aimed as a “compelling alternative” to 7,200 RPM hard driv... |
23 February 2010
09:41 GMT |
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SanDisk has announced that its highest capacity SD card has finally started shipping. The SanDisk ultra SDXC is intended as a successor to the SDHC card format and is based on the newly introduced SD 3.0 specification. With its capacity of 64GB, the card can store large video files, even in 1080p HD format, which can... |
22 February 2010
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