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SSD Maker Micron to Acquire Numonyx for $1.27B

February 10th, 2010 | No Comments

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 …

Micron Announces Agreement to Acquire Numonyx

February 10th, 2010 | No Comments

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.

Intel, Numonyx Reveal Stacking Breakthrough in PCM Research

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Phase change memory is a relatively new type of nonvolatile memory chip that combines many of the benefits of current memory types, such as NAND flash, NOR flash and hard disk drives. Research engineers say they have found a way to stack up 64MB single-layer PCM arrays within a single die into what Intel and Numonyx describe as a true cross-point array containing both memory and a switch.
– Intel and its solid-state processor research affiliate, Numonyx, on Oct. 28 revealed what they described as a quot;key breakthrough quot; in their continuing research on phase-change memory, or PCM.

PCM is a relatively new type of nonvolatile memory chip that combines many of the benefits of cur…

Intel and Numonyx Achieve Research Milestone with Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and GENEVA – Oct. 28, 2009 – Intel Corporation and Numonyx B.V. today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today’s various memory types.

Numonyx CTO Lays Out Road Map for Phase-Change Memory

August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Phase-change memory, which stands to replace DRAM and other components in digital devices during the next five years, offers a great deal of promise for the entire IT industry. It is blazingly fast, reliable and versatile. However, it is expensive, and in the current economic climate it has been a tough sell as a replacement technology.
– SANTA CLARA, Calif. Numonyx CTO Ed Doller laid out the differences in latencies between spinning disk hard drives, solid-state NAND flash drives and phase-change memory in terms that a lay person can readily understand.

quot;There are some very big differences, and processes in the future are …