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Humans have been preoccupied to store and process information for a very long time. It allows humans to use the experience of the past generations and that of the others. The memory of each person defines him/her. Losing memory is like losing past and future, living in a continual present. Brain researches show that... |
29 March 2008
07:48 GMT |
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Numonyx, Intel's flash-memory joint-venture with semiconductor expert ST Microelectronics is set to be approved early next week. According to the two companies, the flash memory venture will be funded in collaboration with investment company Francisco Partners LP.The official joint announcement is scheduled for ... |
28 March 2008
18:16 GMT |
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Memory chips manufacturer Rambus has just won in the patent infringement lawsuit against its competitors, after about ten years of trials. According to the jury investigating the case, Rambus was not found guilty of monopolistic practices against its competitors by patenting technologies that imposed themselves as st... |
27 March 2008
18:41 GMT |
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While it's true that nobody can appreciate the value of DDR3 memory better than a hardcore overclocker, keeping average users from reaching dazzling memory speeds might be regarded as an injustice. Fine tuning memory modules is not an easy to achieve task, and less experienced users who try to squeeze the last ... |
27 March 2008
09:07 GMT |
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There are basically two types of random access memories currently marketed all over the world. The Flash memories, most commonly known as portable memory sticks and dynamic random access memories, those used in personal computers. Both types have disadvantages, however they complement each other. For example, Flash m... |
22 March 2008
05:41 GMT |
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If you have problems remembering where you lost your 45 million dollar laptop, you should probably consider buying a pair of these weird-looking glasses. The Smart Goggles have the ability to remember where you last saw a particular lost item. This way, you can behave like a borg, have the memory of a borg and look l... |
14 March 2008
11:51 GMT |
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As mentioned in one of our previous articles, we've managed to schedule an interview with one of Corsair's representatives at CeBIT. Thus, Mr. Gareth Ogden, Technical Marketing and Applications Specialist at Corsair has taken us on a tour of what Corsair has to offer, and boy, they did have a lot of goodies... |
6 March 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Micron Technology has just announced that it has joined Nanya for a DRAM joint-venture and a partnership in research and development on the 50-nanometer production node. The announcement puts an end to the rumors that have circulated since last month.The two companies jointly stated that they are expecting to sign an... |
3 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Memory manufacturer Kingston Technologies has just demonstrated new blaring speeds for its HyperX DDR3 memory products. Shortly put, the company managed to overclock the memory modules to an unbelievable 2133 MHz clock speed using a pre-release sample of motherboard based on Nvidia's next-generation core-logic w... |
29 February 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Other World Computing (OWC) has recently announced its 4GB Memory Kits for Apple's updated MacBook and MacBook Pro (Penryn), available starting February 26th, 2008. OWC has concluded that users working with audio/video, photo, 3D modeling and gamers employ apps that use a lot of memory. Thus, the company is maki... |
28 February 2008
04:50 GMT |
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FB-DIMM memory fans have now yet another reason to celebrate, as memory manufacturer Super Talent has just announced new inexpensive FB-DIMM modules working at DDR2-800 speeds. FB-DIMM memory modules are not so popular as their regular DIMM counterparts. They are special modules designed to work in high-workload envi... |
27 February 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Memory expert OCZ announced two new memory products to join the scary-sounding 666 Reaper series. The new offerings are targeted at computer enthusiasts and hardcore overclockers who want to squeeze the last bit of performance off their memory modules.The PC3-10666 Reaper HPC offerings come in kits of either 2GB or 4... |
26 February 2008
08:45 GMT |
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IBM Corporation researchers announced on Friday that they successfully managed to manipulate individual cobalt atoms. This achievement may be regard as a technological breakthrough that will pave the way to atomic memory, where the bit-cells will hold just a few atoms.The nowadays process involves heavy use of atoms.... |
25 February 2008
14:03 GMT |
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MetaRAM has been keeping its business away from prying eyes since it was founded, back in 2006. Led by the ex-Advanced Micro Devices CTO, Fred Weber, the company was dealing with RAM, but nobody would be able to tell what it was cooking in its laboratories. Things have become crystal clear as MetRAM has finally pulle... |
25 February 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Last year, the price for NAND flash memory dropped by as much as 60 percent, automatically plummeting the prices for devices that used them. As technology evolves adding price for different aspects, the same process is likely to be repeated this year, by almost the same margin.Analysts believe that "prices of NAND fl... |
22 February 2008
08:58 GMT |
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You can cram all night long for the damn exam, but that's all in vain if you skip sleeping. That have been proved by a large array of researches. But this German research signaled by New Scientists comes with really astonishing information: in fact, even only 6 minutes of nap can boost your memory performances. ... |
22 February 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Nanya Technology was reported to have entered a technology partnership with US-based Micron company. The allegations also claimed that the two companies were getting ready to enter a joint-venture for DRAM chips manufacturing. Nanya was also supposed to kick its German partner Qimonda out of their current business.T... |
21 February 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Corsair Memory announced that it will start shipping ultra-high performance memory modules especially tailored for high-end personal computers and professional, hardcore-computing systems. The memory modules will work at a dazzling clock speed of 2.0 GHz and will ship later this quarter.The company also hinted at eve... |
21 February 2008
07:02 GMT |
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With so many differences between the brain of a woman and that of a man, no wonder they work differently. Studies are decoding little by little these cognitive differences. A new research published in the journal "Current Directions in Psychological Science" reveals how memory abilities vary between the sexes. The ... |
21 February 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Memory manufacturer Lexar Media has just announced the availability of its new memory offering, comprised of Crucial 800MHz fully buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory modules. The kits are available in sizes of GB, 4GB and 8GB, and are the perfect companion for the newly-released Skulltrail gaming platform from Intel.The Cr... |
21 February 2008
04:27 GMT |
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The rush for computing performance is constantly transforming the hardware parts inside our computers. Once upon a time, cooling solutions were exclusively pitched at computer processors, but as more and more powerful hardware came along, heatpipe coolers and even water-based solutions made their way to other compone... |
19 February 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Solid-state storage is continuously gaining more and more attention from the mobile enthusiasts. Flash-based storage is thinner, more energy-saving and has better access timings than the conventional hard-disk drives. They are the best pick for notebooks such as the ethereal MacBook Air or Lenovo's Thinkpad X300... |
15 February 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Memory expert OCZ has announced its partnership with Cyber Evolution (CEVO), a premier national online gaming organization. The competition attracts teams from across the US to compete in the newest PC and console gaming title tournaments.Cyber Evolution hosts multiple gaming competitions that can be regarded as the... |
14 February 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Nanochip Technology, a memory and storage research company has received $14 million in research funds to finish its work on some technology prototypes that will revolutionize the storage industry. The prototypes will be hopefully shipped to electronics device makers for extensive evaluations during the next year.The ... |
12 February 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Memory specialist Micron Technology announced that it has started sampling industry's fastest 512 Mb Mobile DRAM component, that will power the upcoming notebook and ultra-mobile PC systems. Mobile applications are increasingly growing and demand more and more resources from a version to another, and memory beco... |
11 February 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Memory and cooling expert OCZ has just introduced the newest OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB, one the fastest high density kits in the world. The company tries to mix the need for more and more memory with its ability to overclock at higher frequencies. The new PC2-8500 4GB Reaper HPC series comes with an innovative cool... |
8 February 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Did your wife forget to treat you right after giving birth? That's normal, as a new Australian research published in the "Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology" has confirmed that pregnancy can cause memory impairment. The issue can last for at least a year after giving birth, but these effects ar... |
6 February 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Memory manufacturer Walton Chaintech today announced the availability of "new generation" memory modules in its Apogee series. The modules are comprised of 8 x 128 Mb chips running at 1066 MHz. The APOGEE GT DDR2 memory is the company's response to consumers' increasing need for high quality RAM memory fo... |
5 February 2008
10:47 GMT |
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SF movies have achieved it before, but now it's real: electrical stimulation of specific brain nuclei could boost memory. A Canadian team describes in its article published in the "Annals of Neurology" how this was achieved in the case of an obese man who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS): the electrical i... |
1 February 2008
05:08 GMT |
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In a top of intelligence, humans are followed by apes, elephants and dolphins. The elephant brain is denser than the human's, and the temporal lobes, associated to memory, are more developed than in humans. Elephant's lobes also have more foldings, so that they can store more information. That's why el... |
30 January 2008
10:47 GMT |
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A Taiwanese ancient proverb has it that RAM memory is never enough and we would gladly approve with it, if memory manufacturer G.Skill hadn't gone ahead of us. You may wonder why this launch is so important, since there are plenty of vendors to sell 8GB DDR2 kits (and DDR2 memory is getting obsolete). Well, here... |
30 January 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Qimonda announced that it started shipping samples of its upcoming power-saving DDR3 SO-DIMM memory to its key partners and original equipment manufacturers. This is a refurbished version of their previous DDR3 memory modules, that is much improved in terms of power-saving. Power efficiency is extremely important for... |
29 January 2008
11:29 GMT |
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The world we live in is full of memory-based consumer electronics: mobile phones, photo cameras, miniature flash disks, in a word, everything but the kitchen sink. Many of these can connect via USB cables to the computer, then have their SD cards displayed as removable media, but the solution is not only slow when it... |
24 January 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Corsair was one of the undisputed leaders in the DDR2 memory market, and history seems to repeat itself on the DDR3 battleground. The Value Select memory modules brought all the best in the DRAM industry and packed them to meet the overclockers' needs. The Dominator series of DDR3 memory modules delivered by Cor... |
21 January 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Cooling and memory solution expert OCZ Technologies announced the immediate availability of the PC2-8000 Platinum Edition 4GB dual channel kit, targeted at those users whose motherboards only provide two DIMM slots. The dual channel kit allows the users to enjoy increased computing performance at an extremely afford... |
19 January 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Intel was one of the first companies to understand the advantages of flash memory and the role it would play in technological development. Its first flash-based product dates back in 1988 and had the size of a cardboard box, but it offered no less than 256 KB of NOR flash storage. Now, analysts think that Intel will ... |
18 January 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Now, we know why Spaniards take their daily siesta. They want to outsmart us all! A new research led by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman, of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research at the University of Haifa, and published in the journal "Nature Neuroscience", shows that a daytime nap of 90 minutes boosts the... |
8 January 2008
02:52 GMT |
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The information is transmitted through the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste) to the brain. These data are used by the brain with its 5 basic aptitudes: attention, memory, learning, recall and speech, employing its 10 billion neurons and its 40 billion connections per cubic centimeter. 1.Attention sele... |
28 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The flash storage has been one of the technologies that have undoubtedly changed the face of consumer electronics appliances. It can store a large amount of data on a tiny surface, at the cost of only a few milliwatts. DRAM memory needs permanent refreshing to preserve its contents, but Flash storage can do without p... |
27 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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Micron Technologies has reported a quarterly loss after a full year of profit. The largest manufacturer of memory chips in the United States has been terribly affected by the free-falling prices that could not even cover the manufacturing costs.Previously, Micron reported first fiscal quarter net loss of $262 millio... |
21 December 2007
10:47 GMT |
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German memory manufacturer Qimonda has announced that it has plans of shutting down one of the company's research and development facilities in Williston or Burlington, Vermont. This action is likely to reflect upon 75 of around 125 Vermont employees that are to lose their jobs. The rest of 50 employees have bee... |
20 December 2007
04:04 GMT |
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DRAM markets have been under heavy pressure this year. The memory business is falling apart because of the over-saturated market that pushes the prices lower and lower. The DRAM market uses commodity for profit (namely the profit is the result of volume sales with small extra costs) and the competition is harsh. Thin... |
19 December 2007
02:53 GMT |
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More and more research groups are walking on the optoelectronics pathway in search of faster, cheaper and more efficient chips. The transistor is already close to its end after it has been serving the IT cause for more than 60 years now, and needs a fast replacement to save the semiconductor industry from collapse.O... |
18 December 2007
10:09 GMT |
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Which is the storehouse of our memories? A new research made at the University of Liege, in Belgium, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", has made a connection between sleep, brain changes and memories' quality 6 months after an event has taken place. Memories appeared to be pr... |
14 December 2007
04:58 GMT |
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If the CPU market has a few players only, the things are completely different with the DRAM manufacturers. This area is a complex environment and each move from any competitor may severely unbalance the whole market. Apart from the competitors' moves, another thing that kills the business is overproduction. The ... |
12 December 2007
11:11 GMT |
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The exam sessions mean mental and physical exhaustion. But there are some mental vitalizers helping you finish the course without problems or stress. After various hours of studying, the eyes get tired too. Tired eyes can be relieved by washing the area with fresh water, which gives a refreshing and relaxing sensatio... |
10 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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TwinMOS has announced the release of a new line of DDR3 memory modules for notebook computers to operate at speeds up to 1333MHz. The memory modules are alleged to bring a performance boost in the mobile area and at the same time to be more energy-efficient than the current 667MHz DDR2 standard can provide. "This new... |
10 December 2007
06:27 GMT |
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NEC has announced that it has succeeded in developing a new type of memory that preserves the SRAM compatibility. The new discovery has been named MRAM, which stands for Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and is alleged to run at a speed of 250 MHz, the fastest MRAM speed in the world. Apart from the fact that th... |
8 December 2007
05:35 GMT |
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A group of scientists at Arizona State University have managed to obtain a new and efficient type of solid-state storage memory that is alleged to be not only cheaper but also much more efficient than the current NAND pieces. This memory storage is powered by an undisclosed type of nanotechnology, which allows the cr... |
6 December 2007
08:49 GMT |
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"You're getting old! You're getting old!". They chase you for each mistake involving recalling. And the truth is that indeed elders have troubles with the memory, from recalling a name to what they ate 5 minutes ago. And we're talking about healthy old persons, not experiencing Alzheimer's or othe... |
6 December 2007
06:00 GMT |
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