New RealSSDs are equipped for the 6G bps SATA interface, which vastly improves application loading speeds and boot-up times, even for SSDs. – Fresh off the Dec. 2 launch of its smallest-ever (25nm) flash memory chip,
Micron Technology on Jan. 5 hustled to unveil its newest solid-state
drive for laptop computers using that chip: a 512GB monster that
doubles the capacity of the company’s previous drive.
The Boise, Idaho-based company …
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…
The new HLDS (Hitachi LG Data Storage partnership) hybrid drive with Micon’s 25-nm NAND flash will be used in PCs, DVD players and Blu-ray products. – Hitachi, which partners with South
Korea’s LG Data Storage to make storage
devices, on Oct. 4 introduced what it called the world’s first hybrid NAND
flash optical disk drive with its own on-board storage.
Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology supplies its new 25-nanometer NAND as the
flash me…
Oracle, which now owns the Sun server, storage and workstation franchises, filed a new legal action against Micron, charging the company with price fixing over a span of about five years. – Data center software and systems maker Oracle, which has seen its
own share of litigation over the past several years–especially
involving the acquisition of Sun Microsystems–is seeking legal
restitution against solid-state memory maker Micron for alleged
price fixing.
Oracle, which now o…
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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Shares of PNE Micron (PNMC.SI) surged 14.3% to $0.04 on Wednesday, leading a rally in Singapore-listed technology shares after Intel’s (INTC.O) better-than-expected forecasts, traders said.
PNE Micron’s businesses include provides coating services for hard disk drives and automotive parts. Over 5 million PNE Micron shares had changed hands by 10:49 a.m.
Micron Technology’s plan to acquire Numonyx will affect Intel on both sides of the transaction, since the world’s largest microprocessor maker has a close partnership with both companies, in which Micron makes high-end NAND flash processors and Numonyx develops phase-change memory.
– In a union between two influential solid-state memory and storage players,
Micron Technology said Feb. 10 that it will acquire Numonyx for $1.27 billion
in an all-stock transaction, based on Micron’s current price of about $9 per
share.
Numonyx is a flash memory joint
venture startup created …
BOISE, Idaho, and GENEVA, Feb. 9, 2010 – Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), and Numonyx Holdings B.V. announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Micron has agreed to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction valuing Numonyx at approximately $1.27 billion USD.
The new 25-nanometer, 2-bit-per-cell chip from Intel and Micron Technology can hold 8GB of data storage, more than 10 times the 700MB capacity of a standard CD. The chip measures a mere 167 square millimeters, making it small enough to fit through the hole in the middle of a CD.
– Intel and Micron Technology set the NAND flash
capacity bar a little higher and the chip size threshold a little lower Feb. 1
with the introduction of the world’s first 25-nanometer solid-state processor.
The 25-nm, 2-bit-per-cell chip can hold 8GB of digital capacity, more than
10 times the 700…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 1, 2010 – Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the world’s first 25-nanometer (nm) NAND technology, which provides a more cost-effective path for increasing storage capacity in such popular consumer gadgets as smartphones, personal music and media players (PMPs), as well as the new high-performance class of solid-state drives (SSDs).
Micron Technology claims its four new solid-state drives surpass SSDs from current industry leader Intel as the fastest available for notebook and desktop PCs. Micron’s RealSSD C300 flash drives are the first to use the SATA 3.0 standard and its 6G-bps throughput.
– Micron Technology has built its longstanding reputation on dynamic RAM
products. Now it’s moving into the NAND flash business, and with a bit of
panache.
Micron on Dec. 3 unveiled four new solid-state drives the first to use the SATA
3.0 standard and its 6G-bps throughput that it claims surpas…
Micron is manufacturing a multilevel cell enterprise NAND chip for added storage capacity and a single-level cell device for added performance. The company is sampling both new enterprise NAND devices with systems makers and controller manufacturers and is expected to be in full production by 2010.
– Micron Technology, which was forced to close
down its NAND flash memory production facility in Boise, Idaho, in 2008 in a cost-cutting measure, is keeping
its two remaining fabrication facilities co-owned with Intel busy in Lehi,
Utah, and Manassas, Va.
The company announced Oct. 19 that it is…
Intel and Micron have developed new 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, leveraging their 34-nanometer (nm) manufacturing NAND process. The chips, which Micron is sampling now, are typically used in consumer storage devices such as flash cards and USB drives, where high density and cost-efficiency are paramount. This new 3bpc NAND technology produces the industry’s smallest and most cost-effective 32-gigabit (Gb) chip that is currently available on the market.
