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The University of California in San Diego (UCSD)-based San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) was recently awarded no less than $20 million, in order to start constructing its new supercomputer, entitled Gordon. The money was awarded to the Center via a special grant from the United States National Science Foundation ... |
5 November 2009
19:41 GMT |
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After almost six months of being stuck in a patch of loose soil on the surface of the Red Planet, the rover Spirit has begun experiencing a new bout of amnesia, its controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) say. This behavior was recorded in four different instances this year, and so experts have been t... |
31 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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One of the most widespread types of memory today is the “flash” one, the kind that can be found in the average USB drive. The popular, non-volatile technology is, however, beginning to reach its limits, as efforts to fit more data into smaller devices are becoming increasingly difficult. That's why I... |
23 July 2009
07:00 GMT |
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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 |
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OCZ Technology Group, the worldwide leading provider of innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, has recently announced the introduction of its new Gold Series Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) flash memory cards. The fresh OCZ parts are meant to deliver unmatched performance to professi... |
15 December 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Lately, flash memory solutions manufacturer Super Talent has made quite a few interesting announcements, related mostly to solid-state drives (SSDs). However, the company's not ignoring its flash drive business, either, and introduced a new series of such devices, dubbed Luxio, which combines a very attractive e... |
23 October 2008
08:41 GMT |
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Ever since the first product from this family arrived in stores, Corsair's Voyager drives have been quite renowned for providing fairly large storage capacities in a very tough and shock-resilient body. And that is also the case with the company's latest product, which packs no less than an amazing 64 GB of... |
1 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Now, before going any further, this is not at all a top, simply because I haven't been looking all over the Internet for weirder stuff... besides, choosing the most uncanny thing from a heap of other bizarre ones is a rather difficult task. Nevertheless, I've encountered some very funny USB drives, some of ... |
26 September 2008
09:27 GMT |
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As some of you might remember, Pretec launched back at CES one of the world's largest CompactFlash cards, providing 48 GB of storage space. Then, at CeBIT 2008, one of the company's representatives talked to Softpedia about the speed of their cards, which was far superior even to SanDisk's most impress... |
23 September 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Flash memory is becoming the favorite storage media for a lot of devices nowadays, including here professional video cameras (while digital photo cameras have used it since they first appeared on the market). For this reason, SanDisk, one of the world's largest manufacturers of flash-based storage solutions, has... |
12 September 2008
15:51 GMT |
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The SD (Secure Digital) is among the world's most popular types of memory card formats, if not the most popular. The number of electronic devices that use SD cards for storage purposes is absolutely huge, and that's the reason why the SD Card Association has decided to make a step forward in the format'... |
12 September 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Texas Memory Systems will demonstrate a huge tower rack at the Siggraph convention in Los Angeles. This rack is able to make every digital animator or movie producer on a few miles radius envy the company, as the machine comes with 64 TB of high-speed flash memory. 800,000 input/output instructions per second can be ... |
14 August 2008
03:01 GMT |
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It would seem that there's some sort of competition between the various manufacturers of USB flash drives for the title of "world's smallest drive", one of the most important contenders for this title being the Super Talent company. Over time, they've come up with several "record-breaking" models, and ... |
14 August 2008
02:39 GMT |
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Intel has tried to make the last version of its Turbo Memory do some things that Windows Vista doesn't seem capable of: it can transparently optimize Windows for the use of flash memory storage. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, the chip giant will be demonstrating the newest version of Turb... |
14 August 2008
01:57 GMT |
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Transcend Information Inc. announced today the introduction of its all-new 64GB high speed SLC 2.5-inch Solid State Disk (SSD). The new Transcend SSD offers all the benefits of the solid-state technology (the reliable NAND flash memory that is not susceptible of mechanical failure as it has no moving parts), along wi... |
12 August 2008
05:50 GMT |
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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 |
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SSDs (or solid state drives) will represent the next big boom in storage, and for this reason, the main players on the market are already ramping up their production capacities in order to meet future demand. And in order to prove their commitment to this market segment, the Korean giant Samsung has announced that it... |
9 July 2008
01:37 GMT |
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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 |
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Two renowned companies have recently announced their co-developing of a new super-fast NAND (non-volatile computer memory) flash chip. Comparing it to a car, this here is the Bugatti Veyron in flesh. Well, in solid flesh. Actually, it's just solid. Intel and Micron's partnership is to bring the fastest read... |
4 February 2008
03:28 GMT |
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USB Flash Drives are probably the most popular means of data transportation around, but, for the time being, their storage capacities are quite far from the ones provided by HDDs. However, it would seem that things are about to change radically, as the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CA... |
29 October 2007
13:56 GMT |
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The Alzheimer's Disease (also known as A.D or simply Alzheimer's) is one of the worst debilitating conditions that very seriously affect the elderly population, leading to such symptoms as memory loss or dementia. Although there's no cure for it, at least for the time being, quite a lot of associations... |
13 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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It's becoming somewhat of a trend among memory makers to come up with their own Flash-based memory storage devices, including here USB drives or memory cards. And it seems that the people over at OCZ have decided to join this very competitive market, as they've just announced the release of their microSD me... |
28 August 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are more commonly known), represent the future of storage solutions for portable computing systems, as they provide high data storage capacities in relatively small and shockproof form factors. This is the reason why Samsung has developed their 1.8-inch, 64GB SSD, which could prov... |
25 June 2007
06:23 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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The security of one's data is a very important element nowadays and this is the reason why most portable storage solutions launched lately come packed with their own hardware or software data protection systems. And this is also the case with SanDisk's latest models, announced in June 2007, the Cruzer Profe... |
5 June 2007
02:27 GMT |
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Even though the SSD market is just at the beginning of the road, some of the manufacturing companies have already taken a great deal of interest into this technology, and assume that in the near future all of the desktop and mobile computers will feature an SSD. Who am I to argue on how the market is going to evolve,... |
27 March 2007
09:33 GMT |
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