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1. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... density, scalable arrays and NAND-like usage models for PCM products in the future. This is important as traditional flash memory technologies face certain physical limits and reliability issues, yet demand ...

2. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... market.   Finally, Otellini confirmed that Intel's NAND Flash team was on the right path to creating a sustainable business with "good value" components and algorithms. He added that future platform ...

3. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... represents an "important milestone" for the flash storage industry, as conventional multi-level cell (MLC) NAND chips are capable of storing only two bits per cell.   "Our challenge with X4 technology ...

4. Super Talent and Toshiba encrypt SATA SSDs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... and Toshiba's MLC NAND flash memories. The DX provides best-in-class security and reliability features combined with cutting edge performance in both read and write speeds," added James. The UltraDrive ...

5. Intel outlines future of interactive television

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... NAND controller, along with DDR2 and DDR3 memory support." According to Kim, the future of interactive television is contingent on three primary factors: breakthrough technology, a positive user experience ...

6. Playstation ad offends Nigeria

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... is a little strange because the internet was not around for the Serbian assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, unless his Wikipedia entry has been modified again. However if you want to collect a ...

7. Intel confirms top management shakeup

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... The TMG organization under Bob Baker, Bill Holt and Brian Krzanich will report to Bryant but otherwise remain unchanged. Baker will continue to oversee Intel's NAND flash memory business. In addition ...

8. Apple flash flood leaves NAND drought for others

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Increasing demand from Apple for large supplies of NAND memory has left other players in the lurch with severe shortages in store.Increasing demand from Apple for large supplies of NAND memory has left ...

9. In July, chips bursting out all over

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... chips improving the most. Diesen said that he expected an overall 14 percent drop in world semi dollar sales during 2008 and chips for cars will show the biggest improvement in the third quarter. NAND ...

10. Micron, Intel develop three bit per cell NAND flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The joint venture created by Intel and Micron said that it has developed a three bit per cell multi level NAND chip, aimed at the flash card and USB market.The joint venture created by Intel and Micron ...

11. Intel confirms problem with solid state drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Chip giant Intel has confirmed that it is "pausing shipments" of SSD drives because of a password problem on its 34 nanometer NAND flash based drives. Chip giant Intel has confirmed that it is ...

12. Intel lowers SSD prices with 34nm manufacturing process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Intel has adopted a "more advanced" 34-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) product line. The move to 34nm is expected to lower SSD prices by up to 60 ...

13. Micron puts 34 nm flash memory into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    We may be seeing the next capacity jump in memory cards soon, as Micron today announced that it has begun mass production of 34 nm NAND flash memory chips, resulting in 16 Gb and 32 Gb devices that ...

14. Solid state drive sales stalled

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... low. DRAM Exchange, which tracks NAND flash memory, the use of SSD devices in the regular notebook market will only be a piffling 1%-1.5% during 2009, and will only amount to less than 10 percent penetration ...

15. NAND flash prices prompt cheap iPhone speculation

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Apple has bought a number of NAND flash chips for iPhones of a type it normally doesn't use, prompting speculation that a cheap iPhone may be en route.Apple has bought a number of NAND flash chips for ...

16. Supermicro man gets probed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  What's happening at the home of the Boy Wonder? A while since we've been to Anandtech, but it has a preview of Intel's Lynnfield. The wonders have benchmarked the thingie. Want to be included in this ...

17. US startup makes bid to capture memory market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... SDDs, stand alone memory, embedded memory and a NAND flash successor. It aims to strike a partnership with a third party to manufacture its technology, which it calls CMOx. CMox, the company claims will ...

18. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The price of NAND flash memory is stabilizing after manufacturers slowed down supply of chips. But even after that action, sales of branded Flash fell by 2.4 percent in the first quarter of this year ...

19. DDR SSD claims a massive 300,000 IOPS

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... product to look to. The DDRdrive X1 is a PCIe Gen 1-based hybrid SSD, combining 4 GB of DDR memory and 4 GB of NAND flash memory. The DRAM portion is used to take advantage of speed when needed while ...

20. Intel’s Numonyx closes in on potential flash successor PCM

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... are still reason for chip manufacturers to pursue opportunities especially in the NAND field – the flash type that is generally used for memory cards and SSDs. However, it is no secret that flash will ...

21. Latest OCZ SSDs nearing SATA II speed limit

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    OCZ announced new high-performance NAND-flash based solid state disk (SSD) drives, which are among the fastest we have heard of to date (if we forget Fusion IO’s drives for a moment.) The new drives, ...

22. Analyst gets excited about Apple, raises target price by 27%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... iPhones so far and has placed orders for “100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash chips, with the bulk of its order coming from its main iPhone chip supplier, Samsung.” It seems that a ...

23. Intel phases out Z-P230 netbook SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... newer generation of 80 GB and 160 GB SSDs, which sell at much higher prices and help contain the losses in the NAND flash business. Z-P230 flash drives sold for less than $15 in 4 GB versions, for less ...

24. IBM ships 50 millionth 90nm Wii CPU

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... drive, and only has 512 MB of build-in NAND flash memory, with an external SD card of up to 2 GB. See IBM's press release and AMD's press release on 50 millionth GPU.  ...

25. Micron ships 16 GB flash chips for high-end cellphones

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Micron said it's begun shipping what the company claims is the highest density all-in-one multi-chip NAND flash package (MCP). The 32 Gigabit (Gb) 34 nm devices are available with capacities of up to ...

26. Steve Wozniak: Hired as Fusion-io's Chief Scientist

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in the computer industry - Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak. Wozniak will serve as the company's chief scientist. Fusion-io is known for its incredibly high speed NAND flash technology, which is designed ...

27. Report: Flash memory heading toward price decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Recent production adjustments for NAND flash memory won't bring the desired effect of stabilizing and increasing prices, a research report published by Baird suggests. Manufacturers will have to brace ...

28. Report: NAND, DDR2 memory prices heading back up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      The Robert W. Baird Company is reporting that Multi-level Cell (MLC) NAND spot pricing rose from being down 6% to ending up 3% this week. In addition, fully tested DDR2 spot prices are up between 1% ...

29. TSMC sales down 45%, inventory now at 100 day supply

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... bottoms seen within the last week or two, including slight up-ticks in the single-digit percentage range for NAND flash and DDR2. See DigiTimes.  ...

30. NAND manufacturer prices up 40% in 2H January

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Taipei (Taiwan) - DRAMeXchange is reporting that contract quotes for 8Gb and 4Gb multi-level cell NAND flash units jumped up by 40% and 33% respectively in the second half of January. Contract prices on ...

31. Positive signs for some memory makers in December

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... A-Data's revenues were up 21.97% from November, though down 32.98% on the year due to falling ASPs. Both Transcend and A-Data showed positive gains in a market where ASPs of DRAM and NAND flash products ...

32. Flash growth to slow, SSDs not selling as well as expected

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to only 81%, which is less than half the growth rate the sector posted just two years ago. The market research firm said that the new number reflects a declining demand of consumer electronics. NAND flash ...

33. Samsung to increase DRAM quotes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    With Samsung Electronics reducing its supply, contract quotes for some NAND flash segments have increased significantly in the second half of December. The Korean chipmaker now plans to raise DRAM ...

34. Hynix said to be willing to transfer NAND flash technology to ProMOS

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor has reportedly offered to transfer its NAND flash technology to ProMOS Technologies, in addition to the two companies' existing partnership for 50nm-class DRAM ...

35. NAND flash contract prices increase significantly in 2H December

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Contract quotes for some NAND flash segments have increased significantly in the second half of December, as upstream suppliers, including Toshiba, are cutting back production, sources at Taiwan ...

36. Solid-state disks hit half a terabyte

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a good reason, since these drives are typically expensive and are not in reach for the mainstream buyer. While Toshiba’s 512 GB drive is based on the firm’s 43 nm Multi-Level-Cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, ...

37. Micron and Sun expand lifespan of flash storage

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Micron said that it has developed a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash technology that increases the lifespan for flash-based storage media to 1 million write cycles. Boise (ID) – Micron said that ...

38. NAND flash output to shrink in 2009 on weakening demand

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    NAND flash output is likely to shrink in 2009, as more orders for high-end consumer electronics devices have been withhed or cancelled indefinitely, according to sources at Taiwan's memory module makers. ...

39. NAND flash set for slower growth in 2009, says DRAMeXchange

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Bit growth rate in the production of NAND flash chips will be lowered to 93% in 2009, down from the 125% projected for 2008 due to a slow growth in major NAND flash memory applications, according ...

40. Hitachi and Intel to develop breakthrough enterprise-class SSDs by early 2010

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and storage systems by "early 2010," according to Intel. Intel NAND-based The new generation of SSDs will be branded and sold exclusively by Hitachi GST. They will use Intel NAND flash and ...

41. iPhone now boots Linux, soon to boot Android?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... use iPhone's hardware capabilities, including the accelerometer, touchscreen, sound, NAND flash memory and networking. Installing Linux on an iPhone or iPod touch currently involves a series of steps ...

42. DRAM and NAND flash pricing drop to new lows

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    DRAM and NAND flash chip prices both recently dropped to new lows with 1Gb DDR2 chips at around $0.70 and NAND flash chips falling around 20% over the past two weeks, according to sources at memory ...

43. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Leading in flash production technology is a big advantage in cutting losses and perhaps even see a profit in the troubled NAND flash segment. Micron’s and Intel’s joint venture IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) ...

44. Notebook makers keep low component inventories at 3-4 weeks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... inventories is creating heavy price pressure on suppliers of such components as panels, DRAM and NAND flash. More here at Digitimes.  ...

45. DRAM module maker A-Data cutting inventories amid weak demand

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Memory module maker A-Data Technology has said that it will focus its efforts on controlling inventory as a means to curtail the impact of declining demand for DRAM and NAND flash products. As of ...

46. Intel phases out first 45 nm processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... due to migration to the Santa Rosa platform and NAND flash technology, Intel has also discontinued its 1GB Turbo Memory used in ReadyBoost. Santa Clara (CA) - Yesterday, Intel Corporation announced ...

47. NAND flash output continues to grow as demand falls

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Despite of sharp decline in demand for consumer electronics products caused by the global financial crisis, the output of global NAND flash chips continued to post a bit growth rate of 25% sequentially ...

48. A-Data said to have settled with SanDisk over NAND flash patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Following Afa Technologies' (Afatech's) settlement with SanDisk over its NAND flash-related patent infringement lawsuit, another Taiwan-based flash memory product maker, A-Data Technology, has reportedly ...

49. NAND flash market faces historic downturn in 2008 and 2009, says iSuppli

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Once one of the fastest-growing segments of the global semiconductor industry, the NAND flash memory market has been stricken by weakening consumer spending, causing revenues to decline in both 2008 ...