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Memory Prices Finally Stabilize, Still Low Though

Looks like RAM has finally stopped dropping in price, much to the ease of mind of semiconductor makers. After over a year of nearly constant price decline, chip prices are finally stabilizing. Elpida, one of the major suppliers of such chips, decided to lower its output, to alleviate the oversupply problem. Thi...

18 November 2011
10:08 GMT

Verdict Reached on Whether Micron and Hynix Fixed Memory Prices

Rambus has been locked in a lawsuit against Micron and Hynix over whether or not the latter two conspired to keep its RDRAM out of the market through price fixing. Now, a verdict has finally been reached, one that, though it may and will be appealed, sided with the defendants. During the late nineties, Rambus was t...

17 November 2011
16:51 GMT

If You're Not Sure What to Get for Christmas, Buy RAM

Due to an only partially-foreseeable string of events, it so happens that, this year, random access memory (RAM) is the most convenient of purchases on the consumer tech market. The winter holiday shopping season is more or less upon us already, so, naturally, people are trying to decide how to make the best of it....

16 November 2011
10:53 GMT

Netlist Develops 32GB RDIMM Memory Module with Planar-X Technology

Netlist keeps expanding the capacity of its HyperCloud series of RDIMM memory and recently announced that it has developed a new DDR3 module that has reached a whopping 32GB in capacity.The memory module uses the standard 4Gb DRAM that is found in other high capacity DDR3 memory solutions, but packs no less than 72 ...

16 November 2011
08:26 GMT

Mach Xtreme 16 GB RAM Kit Doesn't Bash Wallets

Mach Xtreme didn't actually outright say what it was, but it promises that the price of the Urban Series Quad-Channel DDR3 memory kit will not be too hard on one's life savings. Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors have appeared and, with them, X79 motherboards with high aims for memory. Mach Xtreme i...

16 November 2011
05:10 GMT

HyperX Genesis Memory from Kingston Jumps High

Intel's launch of a new high-end CPU, as always, opened the metaphorical floodgates on memory offerings, so Kingston, naturally, launched a big new DDR3 kit. Kingston's new HyperX memory offer is made of more than one kit, though this isn't surprising, the same way it isn't surprising that the H...

15 November 2011
03:20 GMT

Avexir Core Series Memory Pulses with Light

G.Skill isn't the only company launching memory today, since Avexir is doing the same, although its own target market segment is somewhat different from the one of before. Rather than aiming for the absolute highest tier of the worldwide market, Avexir is, instead, looking at the bulk of the mid-range segment,...

14 November 2011
20:01 GMT

Seniors' Memories Do Not Improve After Sleeping

For years, scientists have been urging people to sleep or snooze at will, saying that this helps improve memory. However, a new study shows that the positive correlation does not hold true for seniors. The exact reason why this happens has not yet been clearly established, but scientists behind the new work say tha...

14 November 2011
14:11 GMT

Corsair Outs 32GB Quad-Channel Optimized Dominator and Vengeance DDR3 Kits

Corsair was one of the first memory makers to announce quad-channel memory kits for Intel's just released Sandy Bridge-E processors and a couple of moments ago the company has expanded its LGA 2011 DDR3 lineup to include several new solutions optimized for these CPUs.The more powerful of these new solutions were...

14 November 2011
09:19 GMT

G.Skill RipjawsZ Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Debuts

We did say G.Skill was building the RipjawsZ set of high-end random access memory and, sure enough, just as we published the review of a certain processor, the RAM has made its official entrance. The RipjawsZ memory kit is quite high on the performance and capacity scales, not that anyone expected any less. After...

14 November 2011
05:26 GMT

Perfect Memory Linked to Highly-Developed Areas of the Brain

People who are capable of remembering most of the things that happened to them throughout their lives in detail may be able to do so thanks to the fact that certain regions of their brains are significantly more developed than normal. According to a team of scientists, these individuals are able to recall so many d...

14 November 2011
05:06 GMT

Exceleram Gives Sandy Bridge-E 32 GB of Grand RAM

Since Sandy Bridge-E CPUs are almost here, and with so many motherboards out or on the way too, Exceleram decided to introduce a memory kit that can keep up with everything the beasts can do. With latencies of CL 9-9-9-24 and frequency of 1,333 MHz, the modules that make up the 32 GB quad-channel Grand kit are four...

10 November 2011
19:41 GMT

Spansion to Lay Off 20% of Its Workforce

Flash memory chip maker Spansion has recently announced that it will cut 750 jobs, which represents about 20 percent of the company's workforce, in order to reduce operation expenses in a weak macroeconomic environment.The Sunnyvale, California-based company announced its move in a filing made with the U.S. Se...

7 November 2011
09:42 GMT

Micron Prepares High-Density 64GB Memory Module for Servers

Micron has just announced that it will soon expand its memory product portfolio with a new 64GB module that is specially designed to be used in server environments running memory intensive tasks.More specifically, the 64GB module was developed for cloud computing, high-performance computing, Web servers, transactiona...

7 November 2011
04:03 GMT

G.Skill Readies 16 GB RipjawsZ High-Grade Memory Kit

As the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors, and accompanying motherboards, near availability, G.Skill is preparing a memory kit that can keep up with them.  Called RipjawsZ, the RAM has a total of 16 GB capacity, being composed of four 4 GB modules. They operate at 2,133 MHz (PC3-17000) and latencies of 9-11...

4 November 2011
15:41 GMT

MOSAID Reveals World's Fastest NAND Flash Memory

Saying that a product is the best at something is a bold statement, but MOSAID is mostly justified in its claim that the 256Gb HLNAND2 (HyperLink NAND) is the fastest in the industry. After all, a chip that can work at 800 MB/s is not about to go by unnoticed, especially with a capacity of 256 Gb. The HLNAND2, as ...

4 November 2011
04:35 GMT

Samsung Hyper Memory Cube Set for 2012-2013

Samsung and Micron are working together on the hyper memory cube (HMC) and they seem to have finally decided on a time frame for when the first specification appear. The first hyper memory cube (HMC) products will be available in 2013, according to the most recent update on Samsung's part. This will be possi...

3 November 2011
04:26 GMT

4GB Memory Modules Still Cost Under $20

Consumers that still have the willingness to buy some new RAM can keep rejoicing over the fact that RAM is still very cheap, even though this only means that demand continues to disappoint.There were a few instances, in the recent past, when DRAM prices almost looked ready to start recovering, but this, alas, has no...

26 October 2011
11:20 GMT

Cannabis Causes Chaos in Concentration, Memory Centers

In a paper published in the October 25 issue of the medical Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Bristol, in the UK, say that cannabis has been demonstrated to cause adverse side-effects on concentration and memory in humans. After the plant is used, brain activity in areas where these traits a...

26 October 2011
03:58 GMT

iBuyPower Claims a World's First Title with 32 GB RAM-Equipped Systems

It was already known that the standard RAM capacity had doubled over the past year, but iBuyPower took things not a step, but a whole leap further with some of its gaming systems. The company actually issued a press release dedicated to claiming the title of “'first system builder to offer 32GB memory on...

26 October 2011
03:48 GMT

DRAM Market Starts to Stabilize, Maybe

Consumers don't have any reason to feel bad about low memory prices, but the makers of DRAM do, though they might finally be able to risk a hope, albeit a small one. The past year saw DRAM prices fall almost constantly, with the few episodes of rebound far between and just enough to torment memory makers wit...

13 October 2011
09:13 GMT

Corsair Outs Quad-Channel 32GB Dominator GT Kit For LGA 2011 Boards

Corsair just announced that it has expanded its range of Dominator GT products with the introduction of a new memory kit that features 32GB in capacity and is designed to be used with Intel's upcoming LGA 2011 processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture. The Dominator 32GB Quad Channel kit consists of f...

13 October 2011
08:08 GMT

HP and Hynix Start Using Memristors for Real

Memristors may still be a work in progress, but Hynix and HP seem to have reached the point where they can give a time frame, of sorts, for when products based on them will appear. Memristor is a shortened form of Memory Resistor, which has two distinct advantages over what is used on today's flash drives an...

10 October 2011
02:36 GMT

Transcend Bypasses DRAM Woes with Strong NAND Sales

Had Transcend not spent the past few years diversifying its business, it might have seriously suffered because of the DRAM demand problem but, as it is, September turned out to be quite the favorable period. Many users are probably tired of hearing about all the problems plaguing the DRAM market segment, even if th...

8 October 2011
08:49 GMT

ADATA Launched Premier Pro DDR3 Memory Tweaked for Improved Stability

Memory specialist ADATA has just announced the introduction of a new line of DDR3 computer memory, called the Premier Pro Series, that targets IT professionals and promises to deliver outstanding stability and compatibility.Compared to standard memory, these new Premier Pro series modules are built only with DRAM chi...

7 October 2011
09:20 GMT

Super Talent Intros Green-Line of VLP Server Memory

Energy efficiency is a highly valued commodity in the server market, so Super Talent developed a new series of green DDR3 memory modules with low-power consumption that should decrease the power costs associated with operating servers.These new eco-friendly DIMM modules were designed to feature lower voltages, as wel...

7 October 2011
08:45 GMT

Micron and Samsung Join Forces to Create Next-Gen Hybrid Memory

Micron and Samsung Electronics just announced the formation of an open consortium for OEMs, enablers and integrators that will collaborate in developing and implementing the interface specifications for Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC).This technology brings together DRAM memory and logic processes into just one package to o...

7 October 2011
04:47 GMT

Brain Wave Rhythm Dictates Memory Efficiency

Investigators from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have determined that the efficiency with which we remember things is directly correlated to the frequency our brain waves operate at when we are exposed to the new data, scenarios, people, emotions or places. This is the first time such a study ...

4 October 2011
10:56 GMT

Corsair Intros 8 GB DDR3 Vengeance and Vengeance Value Modules

Corsair has again made good on its reputation as supplier of high-quality memory products, its newest press release introducing two new Vengeance series DDR3 modules of 8 GB each. It may have run into a little snag with a few Hydro H100 coolers, but Corsair is nothing if not undeterred in its continued push on th...

4 October 2011
08:47 GMT

Micron Loses $135 Million (102 Million Euro) in Q4 of FY 2011

The NAND Flash storage market may not exactly be as bad off as that of DRAM, but it doesn't seem to be doing too great either, as evident from how Micron, a big supplier of such chips, incurred a loss during the latest fiscal quarter. Micron Technology has just completed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year...

4 October 2011
05:43 GMT

The Average 4 GB RAM Module Costs Under $20 (14.74 Euro)

We may have reported that DRAM chips momentarily gained in price a short time ago, but that was a shirt-lived reason to rejoice for makers of such things, as the situation isn't really improved overall. It was only a few days ago that we learned of how DRAM pricing increased a bit after months and months of al...

30 September 2011
03:13 GMT

Rats Know How Teleportation Feels

A group of experts at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim were recently able to explain the teleportation effect rats feel. It was determined that certain neurons in the rodents' brains compete for dominance for precise periods of time. The effect can be seen as the animals scamper...

30 September 2011
03:07 GMT

Samsung Goes Green at Mobile Solutions Forum

For those who do not know, Samsung kicked off the Mobile Solutions Forum event in Westin, Taipei, where it revealed several things that both consumers and product developers may find interesting. By now, many people will no doubt be aware of the fact that the IT industry is placing a significant emphasis on green...

29 September 2011
19:51 GMT

Samsung 4Gb LPDDR3 for Mobile Devices Is Based on 30nm

Samsung released a whole bunch of products for the mobile market not long ago, one of which was a new, small memory module of the LPDDR3 variety, which has a capacity of 4 Gb. Samsung describes its 4 Gb LPDDR3 DRAM as “the industry’s first” monolithic LPDDR3 (low power double-data-rate 3) memory...

29 September 2011
04:02 GMT

Experts Hint at New Form of Human Memory

Investigators from the Michigan State University (MSU) discovered numerous differences between conscious and sleep-time memory processes, which they say is indicative of a separate form of memory acting in the brain. The team refers to this memory as distinct from traditional memory systems. The fact that sleep pl...

28 September 2011
09:48 GMT

Boosting Your Memory Through Hand Gestures

French researchers at the University of Notre Dame, in Paris, say that the way in which people hold their hands plays an important role in how well they will be able to learn and remember a certain experience, fact or action. Hand gestures are very important during those critical moments when people learn somethi...

27 September 2011
09:56 GMT

Memory Prices Manage to Recover for Once

After many months of almost constant downward price slide, the DRAM market has seen one of the very few recoveries, even if it is unclear if the trend will last for any significant period of time.The semiconductor industry is a part of the IT industry that was hit fairly hard by the recession, though other factors w...

26 September 2011
11:05 GMT

Elpida's New 25nm 4Gb DDR3 Chip Is the World's Smallest

Samsung may have started work on 20nm chips, but it is Elpida that claims to have created the world's smallest 4 Gb DDR3 chip, based on the 25nm technology. There is one main reason for how semiconductors get more and more energy-efficient over time, not to mention fast and, in the case of DRAM and NAND, cap...

23 September 2011
04:41 GMT

Samsung Uses New Facility for 20nm DDR3 DRAM Manufacture

Whenever a semiconductor company passes to a new manufacturing process, it makes sure to come out and loudly declare it, as happened now with Samsung, whose newest factory went into business. Crossing to a new chip-making process technology always brings benefits in terms of potential memory density, performance,...

22 September 2011
02:59 GMT

Ultrabooks Will Both Help and Harm DRAM

With DRAM doing as badly as it is, Ultrabooks are seen as a sort of godsend in companies' aims to digest inventories, but it so happens that things aren't all going to change for the better. By now, it has been about a year or more since the DRAM industry has been going from bad to worse. Even just la...

20 September 2011
08:28 GMT

Gartner Finds That Chip Market Is Declining

It seems that the semiconductor industry as a whole, not just the DRAM sector, has gone through a hard year, as analysts found themselves forced to downward adjust their market forecasts. Some time ago, Gartner said that the overall chip market, for the year 2011, would show an increase of 5.1 percent compared t...

16 September 2011
10:11 GMT

Kingston Showcases 64GB Memory Kit for Intel X79 Motherboards

Memory maker Kingston was also present at this year's Intel Developer Forum where it showcased a pre-production sample of a 64GB quad-channel memory kit the company plans to release after Sandy Bridge-E hits the market. The kit that was on display during the conference includes eight high-performance DDR3 mem...

16 September 2011
05:21 GMT

Intel Has Idea for Highly Superior Memory

Intel has been busy at this year's IDF event, speaking of many things, even a certain memory solution that is supposedly vastly superior to existing DRAM chips. People probably know that the DRAM segment hasn't been doing too well over the past year, since demand remained weak, causing repeated price dr...

16 September 2011
02:57 GMT

DRAM Prices Still Getting Dragged Along

The saga of DRAM hardships continues yet again, with just one type of memory module succeeding in avoiding a further decline in average selling price, according to most recent reports. The IT segment may be eager and excited about upcoming CPUs, GPUs and mobile platforms, as well as new software, but not all thin...

15 September 2011
09:42 GMT

Samsung Releases Very Low Power DDR3 Memory

Power efficiency is paramount when it comes to today's computing, especially on the enterprise front, and Samsung is all too eager to satisfy this requirement, as made clear by its new press release. Regular memory modules of today can usually operate on a voltage of 1.5V, while low-power modules make do wit...

15 September 2011
03:54 GMT

SanDisk Memory Vault Can Keep Data Stored for 100 Years

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

Women's Memories Influenced by Birth Control Pills

According to the results of a new scientific investigation conducted by researchers at the University of California in Irvine (UCI), it would appear that women who use birth control remember the main idea of emotional events more clearly than peers who do not use the pills. Conversely, those who use other means o...

12 September 2011
04:34 GMT

Apacer Technology Presents 16 GB RAM Module

The DRAM market has been going through a continuous decline for about a year now, or longer, and this means, among other things, that Apacer's newest product will sell for considerably less than it would otherwise have. Apacer is a company known for, among other things, creating many memory products for a va...

8 September 2011
10:27 GMT

Invensas Makes DRAM More Capacious and Cheaper

The DRAM market may not be doing so well as far as consumer demand goes, but this hasn't stopped Invensas from coming up with a new memory device packaging technology. Memory modules are all composed of multiple chips, strapped onto a PCB (printed circuit board) meant mainly to act as a mediator between them...

6 September 2011
08:36 GMT

New DDR3 Specification Released

The DDR4 memory specification may be the favorite pet project of JEDEC right now, but the standard-setting organization is, naturally, working on other things as well, such as updates to the existing DDR3 standard, one of which has just been completed. With the diversifications of consumer electronics, and the wi...

6 September 2011
02:31 GMT


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