...ally has not been associated with mass
storage products such as hard drives is taking advantage of low NAND
flash prices and increasing storage capacities to move into a new
business segment that p...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 00:25
NAND flash contract prices trended downward in the first half of August, with prices dropping by approximately 5-15% sequentially, according to DRAMeXchange. The weakening price trend is primari
Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:19
...est e-MMC embedded devices in 32GB of memory density, which are composed of 34nm multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash chips. Customer samplings are expected in late August with mass production expected i...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:06
NAND flash controller design house Solid State System (3S) announced that Kingston Technology has taken a 10% stake in the company via a private placement as expected. By forging the investment ti
Monday, August 11, 2008 09:01
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Toshiba announced the launch of 32GB embedded NAND flash memory modules that the company claims are the largest density yet announced, with the modules also having full compliance with the e-MM
Friday, August 08, 2008 09:48
...nductor and Numonyx have announced a five-year agreement to expand their joint development programs for NAND flash memory segment. Under the new agreement, Hynix and Numonyx will broaden the scope of ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 08:57
...ta Technology has announced that its net sales for July rose 7.79% sequentially despite weak prices for NAND flash and DRAM. Its fellow competitor Transcend Information is also expected to post sales ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 08:55
...industry. The cost of 1 Gb of DRAM has declined by 43% during the past year, while the price of 2 Gb of NAND flash has declined by 61% in the last 12 months. Lower prices enable increased memory...
Monday, August 04, 2008 09:57
... keep competitors at distance. More storage should be a given. Apple recently ordered 50 million 8 GB NAND flash memory chips from Samsung Electronics for use in iPhones and iPods (Toshiba, Micron ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 14:20
The consistent NAND flash price drop in the market has prompted Kingston Technology to prepare price cuts for its memory cards, which should spur fellow memory module makers to follow, said indu
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 09:17
...ng to deal with the economic
downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat
from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic
recording technology, which enables ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 00:53
After suffering from plummeting prices in June, NAND flash memory controller IC design houses are seeing an improved market demand status, though growth is not consistent. Most leading controller
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 09:11
...o run devices such high-end navigation systems in cars. Other specs include 256 MB DDR2 memory, 4 GB of NAND flash memory to hold the Debian Linux-based operating system and the Firefox web browser, 8...
Monday, July 21, 2008 00:01
Handsets will continue to serve as the key sales driver for NAND flash in 2008 and account for almost 40% of NAND flash capacity, thanks to growing adoption of small-form factor memory cards. Di
Friday, July 18, 2008 08:57
...sp; Samsung and Sun Microsoystems today said that the two companies have
developed a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid
state drives that offers "much higher endurance level...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 09:48
...ed at $95 (including SCH chipset). The two versions we would prefer in the lineup both come with 8 GB NAND flash disks and a Linpus Linux Lite as operating system. A version with 512 MB memory is pr...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 00:01
...est hard drive, WD’s 3.5” Velociraptor. Samsung claims that the 128 GB SSD, which is built from 64 MLC NAND flash memory chips of 16 Gb each, is energy efficient at 0.2 watts in standby mode and 0.5 ...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 00:30
...ined that its more than 30% on-year sales decline was due to weakening demand and a rapid price drop of NAND flash .
More here at Digitimes. ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 09:21
In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash
memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors,
Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its
Thursday, July 03, 2008 16:09
Samsung Electronics has informed downstream customers it will start reducing its supply of NAND flash chips to them from July as its key customer Apple has placed a large batch of orders, accord
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 09:27
...etitive position with companies that are not locked into deals. David Carey estimated that an 8 GB MLC NAND chip goes for about $20 today, which means that Apple may be getting it for less than that....
Friday, June 20, 2008 01:24
The price of NAND flash chips has continued to fall, with the price of 8 Gb NAND flash recently dropping to as low as $2.35 amid weak demand for consumer electronics products as consumers worldwid
Monday, June 16, 2008 09:05
...ence at Computex Taipei 2008 by unveiling its first SSD lineup, as well as showcasing memory module and NAND flash applications that offer increased functionality and support higher memory densities.
...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 09:15
Intel has begun offering NAND flash -based solid state disk drives
(SSDs) for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and entry-level desktop and
notebook computers, referred to as Nettops and netbooks
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 02:00
...claiming that 512 GB drives will be available with current technologies. At least from a capacity view, NAND flash seems to be surpassing 1.8” hard drives and closing the gap with 2.5” drives. Howev...
Monday, June 02, 2008 15:17
...U, an image processor (digital camera support), a HD video processor (PureVideo for handhelds), memory (NAND Flash , Mobile DDR), a northbridge (memory controller, display output, HDMI+HDCP, security e...
Monday, June 02, 2008 04:00
...s are pushing hard to drive the technology further along:
Intel and Micron are first to announce 34 nm NAND flash chips, which
hold the potential to store 4 GB on a tiny chip, 64 GB on chips for
po...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:37
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Memory module makers are being exposed to a sequential sales decline pressure as the spot price of NAND , after being stable for a while, is now showing signs of weakening again. The previous anno...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 09:38
The stabilizing NAND flash price trend seen recently is clouding with uncertainties, as leading NAND flash players are progressing to next-generation production process. SanDisk and Toshiba are th
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 08:40
...-state drive (SSD) that supports the micro serial ATA (SATA) interface and uses single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash . Built on SLC NAND flash chips, the new 1.8" SSD delivers a data read rate of 100 MB ...
Monday, May 26, 2008 10:44
Although Apple has recently started to order high-capacity NAND flash chips from Samsung Electronics, which is expected to boost the order volume of high-capacity NAND flash in June and July, re
Friday, May 23, 2008 08:49
More NAND flash suppliers are starting to produce NAND flash not only in wafer but also in finished card form. According to sources at memory makers, Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology ar
Monday, May 19, 2008 08:56
...First SSDs are planned to be installed as replacements for regular hard
drives in servers, using Intel NAND flash and and Marvell
controllers. Read more at Digitimes.
...
Monday, May 12, 2008 08:09
... by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. Luxury is … sleep. I wish I had invented … MLC NAND flash . My tombstone should read … Veni, Vidi, Vici or a close second would be Bigg...
Monday, May 12, 2008 00:01
...Cyber-shot DSC-T2 and DSC-G1 digital cameras are equipped with 4 GB and 2 GB, respectively, of internal NAND flash memory, Taiwan-based ODM/OEMs of digital cameras generally feel that such built-in me...
Thursday, May 08, 2008 08:47
Samsung Electronics sold $12.85 billion worth of NAND flash in the first quarter 2008, down 18.7% from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to data compiled by DRAMeXchange. Although Samsung ma
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:48
... But this price-capacity ratio will
change if Saito’s predictions are on target. He forecasts that the NAND
flash memory market will expand 133 percent on average every year from
2006 through 2010 ...
Friday, April 25, 2008 15:06
...itive as pricing has stabilized, but there still seems to be no apparent solution for the oversupply of NAND flash . DRAM pricing stabilized after several leading players raised their quotes, Tsai expl...
Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:29
...lly fully functional network storage devices. Compared to current MAIDs (Massive Arrays of Idle Disks), NAND flash memory (described as on-volatile random access memory - NVRAM) within the project has...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 17:56
The NAND flash market is receiving a major boost from PC vendors that are expected to adopt flash memory for their low-cost notebooks, according to industry sources. First-tier vendors such as D
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 09:12
... a lot of people left the PR department as well: Andrzej Bania, Chris Evenden, Lorenzo Martone, Lars Weinand (former Tom’s Hardware Guide editor), Bubba Woolford, Jagoda Zieleznik and many more. When ...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:20
In light of the sudden surge of NAND flash prices, Kingston Technology, which procured a considerable amount of NAND flash during the price lows, is said to be the biggest beneficiary. Spot prices fo
Thursday, April 17, 2008 09:49
After news about production cuts or delayed expansion at major NAND flash makers, the corresponding price trend is showing a long-awaited upward trend. According to figures posted by DRAMeXchang
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 08:51
...nterest in the processor is higher than expected. Intel’s greatest concern at this time is the slowing NAND flash business. The company recently moved its NOR business and its 1700 employees into Num...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 18:24
NAND flash contract prices regained momentum to swing from a downward to upward trend after Hynix Semiconductor recently announced it would trim output. In light of this, rival Samsung Electronics
Thursday, April 10, 2008 09:10
Amid signs that major buyers are slashing their expected order growth for NAND flash in 2008, iSuppli has cut its forecast for growth in global revenues for the memory this year by about two-thirds.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 08:56
Hynix Semiconductor has decided to cut production of NAND flash amid an industry-wide over-supply and fast falling prices, according to sources within the memory industry.The output reduction from Hy
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 09:17
...ransaction to create Numonyx, a new semiconductor company that will be developing and manufacturing NOR/NAND flash memory as well as phase change memory (PCM) devices. Numonyx is next to the IM Intel...
Monday, March 31, 2008 09:40
Three major camps have formed out of the 25 companies sued by SanDisk over NAND flash -related patent infringement, with Kingston Technology's camp taking the lead in fighting against SanDisk, accordi
Friday, March 21, 2008 09:37
In contrast to the huge procurement of NAND flash the company made in 2007, Apple seems to not have started making big procurements in 2008. While memory makers are worrying about the consumption lev
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:06
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