The company is demonstrating new removable SD memory cards that can hold up to 64GB of content and faster solid-state SATA drives. – Toshiba America Electronic Components came out Jan. 6 with some new
secure digital memory cards and solid-state SATA (serial ATA) drives at
the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The independent division of Toshiba, the Tokyo-based IT giant, now is using the acronym TAEC,
wh…
IBM believes its development will provide a quantum boost in read/write performance over conventional memory and add up to 100 times storage capacity as a side benefit. – Just when one starts believing that processors can’t possibly get much
smaller and more powerful, storage can’t get much more capacious and networks
can’t move data much faster, somebody always comes up with an IT breakthrough
that reboots all that thinking.
IBM Almaden Labs in San
Jose, Cali…
Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson organised a toy drive in memory of her murdered nephew. Jennifer wanted to focus on happier times with seven-year-old Julian, who was brutally murdered two years ago along with her mother Darnell Donerson and brother Jason Hudson, so she organised the Chicago event to help other children enjoy the festive [...]
Marilu Henner, the former star of the ’70s sitcom Taxi, wowed America this weekend when she demonstrated her “superior autobiographical memory” on national television. You see, Marilu has the uncanny ability to remember every day of her 58 years of life — a “gift” the actress put to the test with a battery of memory [...]
ClearNAND, as Micron has dubbed it, will come in both Standard and Enhanced versions. – Exactly a year after it got into the NAND Flash business,
Micron on Dec. 2 launched a new, powerful and tightly packed
25-nanometer multilevel cell processor that may give the company an
inside track on the current flash storage market.
ClearNAND, as Micron has dubbed it, will come in both S…
Sugar-sweetened coffee may be the best way to prepare the brain for a busy day ahead, say scientists. Researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain found that taking caffeine and sugar at the same time boosted the brain’s performance more than taking them on their own. They now believe each one boosts the effect [...]
What is a CD?What is a DVD?And what is the difference between a CD and a DVD? Read these articles to find answers for those questions.This article explains about what are the different forms of a CD like CD, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW and what are the differences.
vCACHE combines NFS caching software from Gear6 and DRAM into Violin’s bread-and-butter NAND Flash Memory Array. – Cache-based storage specialist Violin Memory
on Nov. 16 unveiled vCACHE, a new solid-state array that company claims
contains the first multiterabyte capacity Network File System cache.
vCACHE combines patented NFS caching software from Gear6 — a bankrupt
storage company with progressive tec…
The Apple iPad, competing tablets and continually increasing smartphone use are all driving demand for NAND flash memory, says iSuppli, adding a warning about overproduction. – The Apple iPad, the invigorated tablet market and increasing rates
of smartphone adoption are all driving the NAND flash memory market
toward record revenues, research firm iSuppli reported Nov. 16.
With supply ramping up in the latter half of this year and into
2011, iSuppli analysts expect th…
Microsoft acknowledged that Windows Phone 7 rewrites microSD cards in ways that make the removable memory no longer readable or writable by other devices. – Windows Phone 7 apparently sees any microSD cards inserted into the
smartphone as a quot;permanent modification, quot; rewriting the removable
memory in ways that make it useless to any other type of device. One of the
inaugural Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the Samsung Focus on AT amp;T, include…
Purchasing optimizing software, more memory, a faster CPU and hundreds of other such methods are common ways that people use to improve the speed of their computer.
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Convert your recorded HD videos at State Fair for sharing or enjoying them on portable devices anytime in the later life? All you need is a powerful HD video converter.
Google Chrome has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to create "The Wilderness Downtown," a wistful, HTML5-intensive trip down memory lane to the band’s song "We Used to Wait." – In one of the more bizarre mash-ups involving Web-based maps, browsers and
indie rock music, Google has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to
create a sort of do-it-yourself movie that takes a wistful look at childhood.
Where REM’s quot;Stand quot; provided an
upbeat soundtrack for…
Hewlett-Packard and Hynix will work to bring memristor products to market. Memristors could eventually replace not only traditional memory technologies such as Flash and hard drives, but also CPUs. – Hewlett-Packard is about three years away from taking its memristor
technology from the research lab to the marketplace.
HP officials announced Aug. 31 that the company has entered
into a joint development agreement with memory supplier Hynix Semiconductor to
develop and bring the technology to …
An iSuppli report predicts pricing for 1GB of 3-bit per cell NAND flash memory will fall to $1 by the end of the year. – A report from research firm iSuppli predicted after two years of inflated
prices, NAND flash memory at the end of 2010 is set to return to the key
$1-per-gigabyte (GB) level considered a key threshold to drive adoption of solid-state
drives. However, the report noted the cost reduction may come t…
Intel and Micron Technology team up on NAND flash memory designed by IM Flash Technologies and boasting a high capacity and compact design. – Chip maker Intel and semiconductor solutions specialist Micron Technology
announced the delivery of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on
25-nanometer process technology, offering a high-capacity, compact NAND flash
memory.
The companies have sent initial product samples to select customer…
Intel and Micron are sampling their first 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer (nm) process technology, producing the industry’s highest capacity, smallest NAND chip. The 8GB device offers improved cost efficiencies and higher storage capacity for the competitive USB, SD (Secure Digital) flash card and consumer electronics markets. Flash memory is primarily used to store data, photos or other multimedia for use in capturing and transferring data between computing and digital devices.
Intel and Micron are sampling their first 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer (nm) process technology, producing the industry’s highest capacity, smallest NAND chip. The 8GB device offers improved cost efficiencies and higher storage capacity for the competitive USB, SD (Secure Digital) flash card and consumer electronics markets. Flash memory is primarily used to store data, photos or other multimedia for use in capturing and transferring data between computing and digital devices.
Companies Announce Industry’s Highest Capacity, Smallest NAND Device Providing Cost Advantages for a Wide Range of Consumer Storage Applications
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 17, 2010 – Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. today announced the delivery of 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash memory on 25-nanometer (nm) process technology, producing the industry’s highest capacity, smallest NAND device. The companies have sent initial product samples to select customers. Intel and Micron expect to be in full production by the end of the year.
The new 64-gigabit (Gb) 3bpc on 25nm memory device offers improved cost efficiencies and higher storage capacity for the competitive USB, SD (Secure Digital) flash card and consumer electronics markets. Flash memory is primarily used to store data, photos and other multimedia for use in capturing and transferring data between computing and digital devices such as digital cameras, portable media players, digital camcorders and all types of personal computers. These markets are under constant pressure to provide higher capacities at low prices.
Designed by the IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) NAND flash joint venture, the 64-Gb, or 8 gigabyte (GB), 25nm lithography stores three bits of information per cell, rather than the traditional one bit (single-level cell) or two bits (multi-level cell). The industry also refers to 3bpc as triple-level cell (TLC.)
The device is more than 20 percent smaller than the same capacity of Intel and Micron’s 25nm MLC, which is currently the smallest single 8GB device in production today. Small form-factor flash memory is especially important for consumer end-product flash cards given their intrinsic compact design. The die measures 131mm2 and comes in an industry-standard TSOP package.
“With January’s introduction of the industry’s smallest die size at 25nm, quickly followed by the move to 3-bit-per-cell on 25nm, we continue to gain momentum and offer customers a compelling set of leadership products,” said Tom Rampone, Intel vice president and general manager of Intel NAND Solutions Group. “Intel plans to use the design and manufacturing leadership of IMFT to deliver higher-density, cost-competitive products to our customers based on the new 8GB TLC 25nm NAND device.”
“As the role of NAND memory continues to escalate in consumer electronics products, we see the early transition to TLC on 25nm as a competitive edge in our growing portfolio of NAND memory products,” said Brian Shirley, vice president of Micron’s NAND Solutions Group. “We are already working to qualify the 8GB TLC NAND flash device within end-product designs, including higher-capacity products from Lexar Media and Micron.”
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