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Japanese technology giant Toshiba has officially declared it would start shipping hybrid drives in September 2012. Just after selling its own Thailand-based hard disk factory, the company started bragging about doubling its HDD market share. Right now, with Fujitsu’s old HDD division combined, Toshiba only ma... |
23 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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California-based SSD company STEC Inc. has just announced the new CellCare technology, on its official website. CellCare is a combination of hardware and software that enables affordable SSDs to last over 40,000 P/E cycles. A P/E (program erase) cycle is writing data on every memory cell in your SSD and then erasing... |
16 May 2012
03:02 GMT |
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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Storage expert, Japanese company TDK has reportedly just announced the SMG3B Series 7 mSATA SSD line, on its official website. This device is using the GBDriver RS3 processor that was also developed by the company. The capacities range between 1 and 64 GB of SLC NAND flash memory and this is especially suitable for ... |
10 May 2012
03:42 GMT |
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ADATA has just launched two new lines of SSDs called SP900 and SP800, on its official website. Both SSDs use new optimized firmware that allows them to achieve greater performance results. The new products are currently available in the US and Canada. The SP900 line has a maximum sequential read speed of 550 MB/s a... |
8 May 2012
09:07 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of info was reportedly shared during OCZ’s recent financial results conference. The company expects two more SSD controllers to be integrated in shipping products this summer. Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group Inc. said that “we’ve recently achieved a tape-out of two un... |
7 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Well-known professional storage solution manufacturer Fusion-io reportedly found a way to make MLC flash NAND behave like SLC cells. Many thought it was a scam, or an expected marketing trick, but it really seems the company’s experts are on to something. Currently, flash NAND-based storage is the fas... |
7 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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NAND flash contract prices are dropping at an alarming rate. That’s not bad for consumers, but the manufacturers suffer. Low profits mean less money for R&D, or even bankruptcy, as in the case of Elpida (DRAM memory manufacturer). In the second half of April, contract prices continued the downward trend t... |
4 May 2012
10:12 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group has recently posted its great financial results. During talks with the company regarding the current market situation, the company’s CEO Ryan Petersen reportedly said: "With recent NAND flash price decreases, we have been able to introduce market leading products with price points of appr... |
4 May 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Verbatim, being the maker of storage products that it is, decided to go ahead and launch a new series of USB flash drive units, the Store 'n' Go V3 USB 3.0.
The name alone is enough to spell out more or less everything worth knowing about the devices: they are meant to be carried anywhere and transfer dat... |
2 May 2012
07:44 GMT |
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Large SSD makers have reportedly begun to slash prices on their products. The move is logically linked to the falling price of flash memory, but there may be something else involved.
NAND flash memory prices will constantly go down once smaller lithography technologies start producing it and the production capacity ... |
27 April 2012
11:18 GMT |
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It looks like the NAND Flash market may be going through the same process as the DRAM segment, if perhaps at a more moderate pace.
What we mean by this is that demand has been lax and, in consequence, manufacturers have had to drop prices in order to score orders.
Chips prices are now falling below the cost of thei... |
20 April 2012
10:01 GMT |
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They are at it again: makers of hard disk drive units are busy saying how NAND Flash memory couldn't possibly replace magnetic drives. Ever. To Seagatet's credit, CEO Steven Luczo does, at the very least, admit that NAND can be a good complimentary technology (we think he meant complementary, but just in ... |
18 April 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Reviewing a piece of technology usually involves benchmarks and other software tests, but things have to change when looking at the physical side of things.
In fact, when examining so-called “rugged” products, people sometimes get creative.
It so happens that the folks at German site Smartphonetech we... |
17 April 2012
10:59 GMT |
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It looks like Intel didn't let Easter go by without a new product release, so out came the SSD 330 Series of storage devices made of MLC NAND Flash chips. Intel continues to hold that solid state drives are the best thing that can happen to anyone's personal computer, assuming the PC doesn't already ... |
17 April 2012
03:11 GMT |
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JEDEC has announced its latest project, the creation of a standard for non-volatile memory that also incorporates wireless connectivity.
Wireless connections are everywhere nowadays, but that doesn't mean that the storage performs the data transfers itself.
Indeed, everything down to wireless HDDs and SSDs us... |
13 April 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Intel is almost ready to start selling a line of solid state drives based on 25nm HET-MLC NAND flash memory chips, a sort of blend between SLC and MLC NAND.
Granted, that isn't the correct way to put it. Rather, HET-MLC is a special kind of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND memory that has endurance levels closer to... |
11 April 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Tokyo newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun has just reported that Toshiba is planning to expand its Fab 5 manufacturing facility at the Yokkaichi Operations complex in the Mie prefecture, Japan. This is a NAND flash memory factory and the move is part of Toshiba’s plan to take the lead as the world’s largest ... |
9 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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SSD caching may not be particularly widespread yet, but it is only a matter of time before it turns common if Intel has anything to say about it, and it does.
The Santa Clara, California-based company has introduced the 313 series of solid state drives, based on single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash chips.
They aren&... |
4 April 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Some product types and technologies come and go within a few years, but NAND Flash memory is one of those inventions that has already lived a long time and will continue to do so for years.
Toshiba is particularly enthused about the long way that the NAND Flash memory market has come since the first products showed... |
4 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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The IT industry is a place where many companies call each other to court, but at least two such names are putting some effort into avoiding the possibility entirely. To get right to the point, Spansion and SK Hynix have entered a cross-license agreement that covers all their single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash techn... |
3 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Intel is determined to push forward with its solid state drive business, and the prices of its upcoming models may be just the sort of leverage it needs. We aren't sure this isn't a case of mistyped numbers, but the listings have been up for a while, so someone would have probably noticed by now if that w... |
2 April 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Having read about the likelihood of a new Amazon Kindle Fire being on the way, we now get to look at a report that deals with a different company and an equally different product type.
In this instance, Intel is the corporation that Digitimes' report talks about, although not for its central processing unit li... |
23 March 2012
14:41 GMT |
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It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. Granted, this i... |
20 March 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Hynix may be a memory maker based in Korea, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have plants anywhere else in the world.In fact, like so many other product manufacturers, it has facilities in China.It so happens that the factory located in Wuxi, China, is going to start pulling its weight on the NAND Flash mark... |
15 March 2012
11:40 GMT |
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We've seen several server products crop up over the past week, and Fusion-io is one of the latest contributors to this string of releases. The company has completed the Fusion ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, both of which will be used in Japanese data centers. They have capacities of up to 2.4 TB and almost identi... |
13 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Products based on NAND Flash memory chips continue to sell for a lot more than magnetic devices, but the gap will narrow significantly in the second half of the year, according to DRAMeXchange.
We've heard it all before, how NAND Flash chips are always poised to get cheaper and finally let solid state drives b... |
8 March 2012
08:35 GMT |
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It wasn't overly long ago that the Japanese company Green House released a NAND Flash-based storage device and, now, the company is doing it again.
Of course, that is not exactly an accurate summation of the most recent events that transpired at the company's home base in the Land of Sunrise.
After all,... |
8 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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I-O Data released many Flash-based storage units in the past, and it is doing so again, only this time it is catering to the needs of the industrial sector instead of consumers. The company has built the CFU-IV line of CompactFlash cards, the sort that are more about interconnection and endurance than they are abou... |
1 March 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Intel and Micron set up the IM Flash joint venture a while ago, but their cooperation went through some transformations since then and it is doing so again.
The two companies have signed a new agreement, through which Intel's stake in IM Flash is reduced, even though the Santa Clara giant will continue to part... |
29 February 2012
09:05 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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Mach Xtreme decided to launch a series of solid state drives that even people with moderate financial resources could buy, even if it did not actually mention the prices. The company has created the MX-STARTER PREMIUM Series, composed of three members with capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB, respectively. All o... |
21 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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There is a new line of single-level cell NAND Flash memory chips running about, one that Macronix International has just officially announced.
The first-generation MX30LF Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash family, built with a 75 nm floating gate technology, has been formally revealed and is made up of two members,... |
10 February 2012
16:41 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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We wrote that memory prices had finally stabilized, more or less, but the price point is quite low compared to what companies see as ideal.
Sure enough, reports are coming in about how makers of DRAM and NAND products have definitely seen better days.
During the month of January 2012, they saw their sales droppin... |
7 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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After losing a major patent against NVIDIA, Rambus has announced that it has acquired a privately-held memory technology company, complete with its own special portfolio.
Rambus has managed to get Unity Semiconductor to sign a deal through which the latter becomes part of the former in exchange for $35 million in c... |
6 February 2012
08:51 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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2012's first couple of weeks have passed so, naturally, market watchers looked at what has been happening on the NAND Flash storage market.Apparently, product vendors decided to wait until after the Chinese New Year before committing to more orders.That allows NAND Flash chip prices to fall slightly, or so Digit... |
18 January 2012
16:37 GMT |
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The rumored Apple-Anobit acquisition is indeed going down, according to an Israeli newspaper that reports on the $500 million buyout today.Via All Things D comes word that Apple and Anobit have signed the papers by which the Cupertino giant gains full access to the latter’s flash memory technologies.Apple relie... |
20 December 2011
08:27 GMT |
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An Israeli paper reports that Apple is very much interested in buying a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in flash storage in the country. The purchase price is said to be in the $400-$500 million range.Tech news blogs and sites are pointing to a Calcalist report saying that the Cupertino company relying... |
13 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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The main advantage that companies have been saying will be possessed by TLC (triple-level cell) solid state drives (SSD) is the decrease in price, something OCZ wants to make the best of. Simply put, TLC NAND-based consumer solid state drives will be 30% less pricey than what we have today, and that is compared to ... |
4 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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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 |
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World-class developer of memory products, ADATA announced that it had finished making a new bunch of small memory cards for smartphones and anything else that can read microSDHC.
They are five in number, with capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, respectively.
Their greatest asset is the UHS-I (Ultra ... |
27 October 2011
08:58 GMT |
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The 830 series of Samsung solid state drives (SSDs) is one that showed up on the web a while ago but only now got officially launched by the company.
This line of NAND Flash-based storage products is entirely made by Samsung, this being the reason invoked by the company for their 'amazing performance.'
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26 October 2011
04:12 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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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 |
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It isn't hard to guess that the chip market isn't doing so hot lately, but analysts have uncovered that things are somewhat worse than most would tend to believe.
One way of knowing whether or not demand for a specific IT segment is healthy is to look at the product stockpiles.
In other words, the Da... |
8 October 2011
06:22 GMT |
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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 |
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South Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has just announced the availability of a high-performance 64-gigabyte (GB) embedded memory with 64Gb NAND, suitable for mobile devices like smartphones, tablet PCs, and more.
The new 64GB embedded multimedia card (e-MMC) will provide users with the highest performance avai... |
29 September 2011
15:51 GMT |
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