...rgest NAND flash manufacturers. In addition, there is a range of new competitors, most importantly Intel , that are offering SSDs and aren’t likely to settle for second place by default. While S...
Friday, October 10, 2008 11:48
...oprietary device. 1972: AMD goes public. 1975: AMD enters the RAM chip business, reverse-engineers the Intel 8080 microprocessor and creates bit-slice processor elements for minicomputer designs. 1...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35
.... Inventor David Hanson claims that his “animated persona is designed to someday surpass human levels of intel ligence.” But as said, he was not working when we were there and we would hope that he wil...
Monday, September 29, 2008 21:54
... a market share north of 42%, while Toshiba holds another 28% and even industry giants such as Hynix and Intel -Micron have a hard time to keep the pace. Companies such as Sandisk, whose business depe...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 21:42
...has prompted chipmakers to extend their presences beyond chip production. Among major NAND flash makers, Intel , Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics are said to be tapping both the memory card an...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:15
...capacities to move into a new
business segment that promises a virtually endless business
opportunity: Intel is the latest company to jump into the solid state
disk (SSD) market that still promises...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 00:25
Intel is expected to unveil new products within its solid state disk
(SSD) drive family. Following its joint venture partner Micron , which
recently introduced new RealSSD drives, Intel -brande
Friday, August 15, 2008 00:09
... year, Apple announced that it had reached a long-term supply agreement with flash memory makers (Hynix, Intel , Micron , Toshiba and Samsung) to secure the supply of NAND flash memory throughout 2010 w...
Thursday, July 03, 2008 16:09
...re in the global flash industry,
manufacturers 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 sto...
Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:37
Intel today announced what it called a “solid start” into the new year.
But the company can’t hide that it was a mixed bag of good news and bad
news overall, with higher revenue but less prof
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 18:24
...bably one of the most ill-fated ideas in the
microprocessor industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Intel was
almost brought down to its knees by the enormous power consumption and
heat dissipa...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:08
Micron , Samsung and Qimonda said that Intel has validated their DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the upcoming Centrino 2 platform, previously code-named Montevina. It appears that all three companies have been sa
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 13:09
...suffered sequential declines in revenue. The only companies to achieve a sequential gain in revenue were Intel and Micron , which produce NAND through their joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT)....
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 14:13
Intel and Micron are first to announce NAND flash memory chips using the new high-speed interface specified by the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) group: The new memory promises five times the read/
Friday, February 01, 2008 12:07
Intel was the first company to heavily invest into flash production and it may become one of the first big names to leave this market behind. In-Stat believes that Intel may be dropping its NAND flas
Thursday, January 17, 2008 14:28
...turn out to be what the UMPC was intended to become – a mass market pocket computing platform. And Intel finally develops the components such a platform needs to have, including a compact and ec...
Monday, December 17, 2007 11:53
...rowth in global NAND flash memory sales in the third quarter, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology and Intel impressively outperformed the competition, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppl...
Friday, November 30, 2007 08:20
... of NAND flash supply from Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor recently, strengthening ties with Intel and Micron Technology are observed with competitive pricing offered, which has prompted s...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 09:23
While on-site at Intel 's Jones Farm campus last week, TG Daily editor Rick Hodgin had the opportunity to tour one of the microsurgery silicon debug labs. In this article, we'll present
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 14:53
...of 27.5%, followed by Hynix with sales of $440 million and a share of 14.6%. The joint venture formed by Intel and Micron achieved a combined $230 million and a share of 7.7%, while both companies wer...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 17:38
With Intel 's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology i
Thursday, June 07, 2007 00:45
...x 2007 Taipei, Taiwan June 5-9 Top Story Intel releases Bearlake chipset, announces $200 PC Intel t...
Monday, June 04, 2007 00:01
Dell, Intel and Microsoft today announced the formation of the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) working group to develop a standard software programming interface for PC-based N
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 18:00
Intel announced today that it has struck an agreement with STMicroelectronics to create a new company dedicated to manufacturing flash memory. Santa Clara (CA) - Intel announced today that it has str
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:32
As the release of Intel ’s 3-series chipsets and FSB1333 Core 2 Duo processors approaches, more system memory suppliers have been validated buy Intel to provide memory for its platform code-name
Monday, May 14, 2007 14:23
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to ramp up its production of Intel 's 802.11n Wi-Fi chips at 0.13-micron in the third quarter, according to industry sources.TSMC is al
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 13:44
Once the leading NOR flash manufacturer, Intel may actually be on its way out of building this type of flash memory - and favor the faster growing NAND flash type instead.Scottsdale (AZ) – Once
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 13:09
...mory manufacturer. According to iSuppli, the company increased its revenues by 25% year over year, while Intel saw its revenues declining by about 10%. Spansion its reach in the NOR Flash memory mark...
Friday, February 09, 2007 14:23
Intel today reported fourth quarter 2006 revenues of $9.7 billion, down about 5% from last year. Net earnings came in at 1.5 billion, down a dramatic 39% from $2.5 billion in Q4 2005. But Intel appea
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 17:31
...sition 5 (2113 patents) and is preceded by Matsushita (Panasonic, 2273). Other notable U.S. entries are Intel in position 6 (1962), Micron in 10 (1612), Microsoft in 12 (1463), General Electric in 14...
Thursday, January 11, 2007 15:07
...circuitry could be possible in the foreseeable future. Other recently revealed photonic research include Intel 's hybrid silicon laser chip, a chip that combines traditional electrical and future optic...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 17:08
... 25.4% and segment leader Samsung 11.5%. Micron (#5), which has launched a NAND flash joint venture with Intel , gave up 8% year-over-year, while Intel is listed on #6 as a new competitor in the list. ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 19:38
... is likely hit 1600 MHz in 2008/2009. One of the first platforms taking advantage of DDR3 memory will be Intel 's 3-series chipsets, currently code-named "Bearlake", which will be introduced in the sec...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006 16:53
IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron , today announced that it will break ground on a fourth flash manufacturing facility in the first half of next year. The factory will in
Monday, November 06, 2006 17:42
...ing Clearspeed updates 50 GFlops accelerator board Multi-core processors may replace physics cards, says Intel Nvidia announces SLI-accelerated physics ATI releases first GDDR4 memory graphics card ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 21:07
The successful introduction of Intel 's Core microarchitecture wasn't enough to save the company's third quarter result. Compared to the same period of 2005, revenues were down about 12% from $9.7 bil
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 20:42
...ing on the Horizon. Following the announcements of Samsung's prototypes and Elpida's sample shipments to Intel , Micron today said that it is making samples of its 1 Gb DDR3 memory chips and modules ge...
Monday, September 25, 2006 12:00
Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) today said they have succeeded in building the world's first hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing proc
Monday, September 18, 2006 18:04
... PQI to ship 64 GB 2.5" SATA flash disk in August Samsung launches 32 GB Flash disk for mobile computers Intel , Micron challenge Samsung with first 50 nm flash memory Flash memory could slash boot tim...
Monday, September 11, 2006 06:19
..., with a TSMC court filing claiming that SMIC is marketing an 0.18-micron process that incorporates TSMC intel lectual property (IP) in over 70% of the steps described. More here at DigiTimes. ...
Thursday, August 31, 2006 13:53
Intel and Micron Technology recently started releasing 8Gbit NAND flash memory chips, fabricated by their joint venture IM Flash Technologies, to the spot market, and customer feedback is satis
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 13:14
...on process for flash memory may see more competition down the road: The NAND flash joint venture between Intel and Micron , IM Technologies, is first to announce sampling of a 50 nm chip. Santa Clar...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 17:34
...'s rankings, Micron 's patents came out ahead of those issued by such semiconductor industry big names as Intel , Samsung Electronics, Toshiba and Texas Instruments (TI), in what is intended to be an ev...
Thursday, July 20, 2006 14:36
...ounter pressure from the launch of Socket AM2 Sempron processors by rival Advanced Micron Devices (AMD), Intel plans to further cut the prices for the complete line up of its entry-level Celeron D pro...
Monday, July 17, 2006 15:28
In a special "Fab Day" (short for "fabrication") event at its new 300 mm production facility in Richmond, Virginia, a company that few have heard of has become, not two months into its existence, the
Monday, June 26, 2006 14:01
At last week's E3 Expo, Nvidia showed off the power - both in terms of performance and consumption - of top-of-the-line Quad-SLI systems. It's innovations such as Quad-SLI that have pushed the price
Monday, May 15, 2006 22:46
Samsung says it has developed a new "3D" package, which reduces space requirements and increases performance capabilities of today's multi-chip packages. The company plans to use the technology to im
Thursday, April 13, 2006 05:13
Samsung is the first semiconductor manufacturer to ramp up the 70 nm production process for its OneNAND Flash memory. The company claims that the new memory will boost production efficiency by 70% an
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 03:34
In one of the more elaborate technology demonstrations of this year's Spring IDF, Intel devoted part of one of its Tuesday afternoon keynotes to premiere its "Robson" Flash cache technology, which wi
Wednesday, March 08, 2006 15:58
Perpendicular recording will be a key technology to keep the capacity of hard disks growing in coming years. Seagate isn't wasting time upgrading its products: The company will be shipping a massive
Monday, February 13, 2006 13:21
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