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Seagate Technology, one of the largest manufacturers of magnetic hard drives, is planning to enter the SSD market with a couple of flash-based storage solutions designed for the enterprise market. The company, which has a long story of creating traditional magnetic hard drives, is considering launching its first SSDs... |
10 October 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, is planning to acquire SanDisk, a leading maker of flash memory card products. In an interview with Reuters and cited by the online newspaper eDaily, a representative for the South Korea-based company confirmed that Samsung was considering... |
5 September 2008
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Yesterday, Micron, one of the worldwide leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its latest e-MMC embedded devices. With 32GB, Micron's latest product, which is fully compliant with MMC standards, provides the highest densities available on today's market.The company also announced t... |
14 August 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Solid State Drives are claimed to be the next best thing in the storage business, replacing the traditional HDDs, and despite recently reported issues, the upcoming flash-based storage solution is expected to improve performance and even come with a much more acceptable price tag.Indilinx, a Korean-based fabless semi... |
11 August 2008
11:08 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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Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that they had managed to develop a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash memory device that was to be used in Solid State Drives. The drives that will feature the new SLC memory are expected to offer much higher endurance levels, compared with any other flash ... |
18 July 2008
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Two days ago, we brought some news according to which Solid State Drives are not as power efficient as everybody thought they were. Even more, these flash-based drives consume more power than regular magnetic drives reducing laptop battery life. The news came from a Tom's Hardware article that put a series of SS... |
4 July 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions, is seriously considering getting more involved in the SSD market. The company plans to introduce its first SSD storage next year, but the products will not be meant for the consumer market. Along with the release of its first SSD drives, Seagate also pla... |
30 May 2008
07:13 GMT |
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According to a recent press release, Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have released the world's first 34-nm, 32-gigabit multi-level cell chip. In doing so, they have succeeded in claiming the technical lead in the NAND flash memory market.Reportedly surpassing rivals Toshiba, Samsung and others, the Intel-... |
29 May 2008
11:18 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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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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Samsung have been reported to sell their 256 Mbit (16 Mb x 16) DDR2 graphics memory chip stock at a dangerously low price of $0.50 per unit. This situation occurs as the company is willing to unload its graphics memory stock, but it has set a price that is lower even than the competitors' manufacturing costs. Ac... |
18 December 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Toshiba has just announced that they will start manufacturing solid-state drives for their notebook PCs based on flash memory cells. The company unveiled their 32GB, 64GB and 128GB versions to be produced in three different form factors (embedded module, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes). Solid-state drives are the alter... |
10 December 2007
04:47 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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Micron Technology is somewhat misleading, at least in terms of name; their technology may be "micro", but the company is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Among the four largest memory chip makers in the industry, the company provides customers with all the memory and storage areas, such as im... |
30 November 2007
03:10 GMT |
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This summer was a very bad time for the manufacturing companies that are active in the production of both computer memory chips and NAND flash based non-volatile memory solutions, as price tags fluctuated widely, with a general tendency of pointing downward. One of the most important computer and NAND memory chip mak... |
3 October 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Just like most industries, the computer and general electronics consumer ones are expected to post lower sales during the summer and high figures in the winter period when the Christmas shopping spree acts as a global catalyst increasing sales across the chart. This time, something went a little different as various ... |
2 October 2007
11:09 GMT |
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Hynix Semiconductor just announced that it has signed an agreement with a number of rival companies, including Ovonyx, in order to develop a new breed of non-volatile flash memory modules that are supposed to bring greater data storage densities as well as faster access to information. The new breed of flash memory i... |
2 October 2007
09:10 GMT |
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Toshiba and SanDisk formed a partnership over eight years ago in an attempt to stay competitive on the fast growing and very volatile flash memory market. As the global demand for flash based memory solutions is increasing it put strains over the supply chain and flash manufacturers are trying to meet the demand by i... |
8 September 2007
07:16 GMT |
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Nowadays NAND based memory chips are found in almost every electronic device from music players to data storage solutions and computers, so the entire NAND memory manufacturing industry is experiencing another booming expansion after a few months of shipments decline and uncertainty. The currently adopted NAND fabric... |
7 September 2007
05:22 GMT |
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After months and months of oscillating up and down, computer memory markets are finally getting more stable. Currently, DRAM memory transactions are rising in very small increments in China where computer system manufacturers and vendors are trying to capitalize of the soon to come Olympic Games.After a period of pri... |
24 August 2007
06:12 GMT |
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As embedded systems are gaining more and more popularity, a certain degree of performance increase is expected from them. As the main quality of this systems over desktop and mobile computer solution is their lower overall costs and low power consumption, there are only a few things that can be done in order to incre... |
22 August 2007
08:47 GMT |
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After the power outage that left six of the NAND chip production lines from Samsung in shambles, financial and market analysts predicted that the entire flash memory market will suffer from a shortage of spare chips during this time period. As the Korean hardware manufacturing company quickly restored production and ... |
17 August 2007
08:15 GMT |
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After a long decline and recovery period, the NAND flash memory is finally beginning to get better and offer strong opportunities for memory manufacturers and vendors like Samsung Electronics. The Korean company used the favorable market conditions to increase its lead over its competitors on the NAND chips market, e... |
16 August 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Intel and STMicroelectronics decided sometime ago to enter a partnership with the stated intention of developing, manufacturing and selling flash memory chips. As Intel already faced monopoly charges in Europe, the two companies waited for the European Commission's approval before merging their flash memory unit... |
14 August 2007
08:22 GMT |
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As the flash memory chips are very popular these days, hardware manufacturers seek new ways to increase their data transferring performance and capacity. The problem is that while traditional NAND based flash memory chips are pretty good in terms of both performance and storage capacity, current manufacturing techno... |
10 August 2007
02:43 GMT |
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For a while now computer memory prices are going up, one little step at a time, after a long period of free falling that created numerous financial problems among most manufacturers. Now, DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise through the rest of August, even more so after the power outage that hit the Korean prod... |
9 August 2007
08:14 GMT |
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Flash memory chips are very popular nowadays as they can be found in almost all electronic devices that are making our lives easier. From the portable music and media players, flash based data sticks, to the solid state drives, NAND chips are expanding their reach. They become very popular due to low overall costs an... |
9 August 2007
06:55 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics announced that it will speed up production in order to meet its monthly targets, after the last week's incident led to the complete halt of the NAND memory chip production. The power outage forced Samsung to shut down six of its NAND production lines and discard most of the flash memory chips... |
7 August 2007
07:44 GMT |
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After a power outage at a NAND chip production plant in South Korea that left Samsung with almost no flash production capabilities and the entire industry that depends on NAND chips in the air, the memory manufacturer reports that all lines are now fully operational. The incident at the Kiheung production plant, near... |
6 August 2007
05:04 GMT |
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SanDisk Corp and Micron Technology received an unexpected boost of their combined market share of flash memory chips after the main NAND memory chips producer Samsung Electronics had to stop some of its production of flash memory chips after the facility near Seoul was hit by a power outage, according to InformationW... |
4 August 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Flash memory is found nowadays in a lot of electronic consumer devices like cell phones and memory sticks, but the flash memory could advance even further according to a company called Nanochip. This small company recently received VC funds from Intel, according to the news site News.com and they say that by 2010 a n... |
2 August 2007
05:09 GMT |
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Silicon Motion Technology is an integrated circuits design and engineering company that just announced that its sales for the second quarter of the year 2007 reached the mark of $44.1 million which represents an increase of 111 percent from the same period during the last year and a 23 percent increase over the first... |
31 July 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Flash based memory chips are becoming more and more popular as their price drops and their storage capacity and relative performance climbs. Nowadays, flash memories can be found in many computer hardware parts (flash memory sticks, solid state drives - SSDs) and in cell phones and just any kind of mobile gadget that... |
31 July 2007
03:16 GMT |
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Powertech Technology Inc is a company that focused mostly on integrated circuits for memory packaging and while its business shows signs of steady growth, the company announced that it will start investments in order to expand to logic IC packaging. Mass production is expected to start the following year, according t... |
27 July 2007
09:04 GMT |
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After a long descent that left most memory manufacturers wondering if they should adopt a new line of work, the price for both DRAM computer memory and NAND flash chips rises slowly but steady. According to figures posted by DRAMeXchange and cited by the Web based news site Digitimes, after seeing the price of a 512M... |
26 July 2007
11:56 GMT |
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USB flash drives are becoming a more popular short term storage solution by the day, mainly because they are versatile, ultra portable and shock, water and dust resistant. As their popularity grows, so does the offering from several hardware manufacturers, and the product offering is very diverse, both in terms of st... |
26 July 2007
10:32 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation is one of the world's largest supplier and producer of flash storage cards. The company announced today its results for the second year's quarter that ended on the first of July. The end results are not very good as officials from SanDisk declared that, excluding the impact of acquisitio... |
20 July 2007
09:07 GMT |
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Two of the largest Flash manufacturers in the world, Samsung and Hynix, are having trouble producing enough NAND chips to meet demand, says vnunet.com. The Taiwan based Internet news outlet, Digitimes, cited sources from within the two major companies, and the conclusion is that the two Korean manufacturers are havin... |
12 July 2007
09:08 GMT |
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In a world full of Windows-based computers, Vista is the newest hottie. Many hardware manufacturers have produced compatible hardware for Windows Vista's ReadyBoost, one of them being OCZ Technology which has sprung to outer space with their VBoost line of Flash drives.ReadyBoost "is very practical" with flash m... |
1 May 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Semiconductor manufacturer Samsung Electronics has begun mass production for 16 gigabit (Gb) NAND flash. These modules are fabricated using the 51 nanometers (nm) process node and are expected to be produced with 60 percent more efficiency than the former 60nm manufacturing process.These 16 gigabit memory modules are... |
1 May 2007
03:20 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics has announced that it has become the first company to begin the mass production of 16Gb NAND flash, which is the highest capacity to be available on the market. According to the company, it will be manufacturing the devices in 51 nanometers, the finest process technology to be used in memory mass ... |
30 April 2007
02:45 GMT |
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In a strange twist of events, apparently old-school hardware geeks aren't the only ones who still have a thing for IDE drives. As much as the industry is trying to wipe them out completely, by limiting the number of IDE channels that are available on the new hype, cool, trendy motherboards, the little buggers st... |
5 April 2007
06:19 GMT |
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One of the well-known semiconductor chips manufacturers in Taiwan, ProMOS Technologies has had a long experience with memory modules and has sold memory chips to more than a dozen manufacturers. Now it has gone through a rough spot in the second quarter of 2007, but still has announced that it will continue its five ... |
29 March 2007
10:43 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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As one of the biggest flash memory manufacturers in the world, Sandisk Corporation has announced the introduction of a new product next to the many other flash products they produced. This would be a new 32GB SSD with a Serial ATA interface especially designed for usage on notebooks. It features a 2.5-inch form facto... |
14 March 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Intel announced its presence on yet another side of the computer industry through the introduction of a new line of products based on NAND flash memory. The first of this new species is the Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive. As part of ongoing trend in the industry, Intel's Solid State Drive (SSD) follows companies... |
13 March 2007
05:56 GMT |
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Samsung is already shipping their first hybrid hard drives. The MH80 series is now making its way to Samsung's "select OEM customers" and will be available at retailers near you shortly. The hybrid HDDs were announced a couple of months ago, now arriving about one month later than originally planned. It was supp... |
8 March 2007
10:24 GMT |
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According to a report from American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu, Apple is looking to expand the use of NAND flash memories to their iPod and Mac lines. He also said in this report on Wednesday that Apple is launching a new subnotebook that will also use the much appreciated NAND flash memory, instead of the r... |
8 March 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Last week, I spoke about the manufacturers that will put together the iPhone, hopefully be June, as announced. I was saying then the names that are likely to win the manufacturers competition are Hon Hai for assembling, Samsung for its NAND memory, Marvell for supplying the iPhone's 802.11 wireless connectivity,... |
5 March 2007
11:11 GMT |
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