All the stories tagged with flash memory
Toshiba has higher performance NAND flash devices
07/28/2011, Toshiba recently announced that the company has spruced up their NAND flash portfolio by introducing a new range of higher performance 24-nanometer (nm) e-MMCTM devices. Wait here, e-what? Basically, these higher NAND flash devices will rely on toggle-mode double data [...]
Toshiba releases new 24nm SmartNAND
04/06/2011, Toshiba has just announced a new addition to its 24 nm NAND flash product family – the SmartNAND. Designed for portable devices such as media players, tablets and phones, the NAND flash chips are meant to make life easier for [...]
Samsung Develops NFC Chip With Embedded Flash Memory
12/01/2010, Samsung has announced that it has developed a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip that features embedded flash memory. That chip is slated to go into mass production in 2011 and is an advanced chip that features a low power design [...]
Samsung 512GB solid state drive relies on toggle-mode DDR NAND flash memory
06/17/2010, Samsung has just announced that they will be rolling out a spanking new 512GB solid state drive that will rely on high performance toggle-mode DDR NAND flash memory. Inside, you will find a 30nm-class 32 gigabit chip that entered production [...]
Toshiba 128GB flash chips target portable devices
06/16/2010, Toshiba has rolled out the first-ever 128GB embedded flash memory chip that relies on the 32-nanometer process when being manufactured, stacking up 16 8GB NAND layers to double its predecessor’s maximum capacity without having to put on additional thickness. Thanks [...]
Researchers Reduce Flash Memory Power Drain By 86% And Increase Write Speeds To 9.5GB/s
05/20/2010, If it weren’t about the cost or storage capacity issue, most of us would choose an SSD over the traditional hard disk without hesitation. Now the smart folks over in Japan have decided to make SSDs even more enticing to [...]
Samsung Unveils 32GB NAND Flash Memory Built On 20 Nanometer Technology
04/19/2010, Samsung is showing its muscle in the flash memory business by announcing that it has managed to produce the first NAND chips based on the 20nm manufacturing process. These chips are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, and the [...]
Toshiba Working To Increase The Density Of Memory Chips
04/02/2010, Toshiba, who is the world’s second largest NAND flash memory maker behind Samsung, is busy working on the next step in flash technology, which means denser memory chips. The company is currently working on 32nm and 43nm chips, but is [...]
SanDisk Hints That something BIG Is Coming
03/20/2010, If you’ve taken a peek at SanDisk’s homepage today, you’ll have noticed a rather obvious notice on the site stating that something BIG is coming. While we’re not entirely sure what the company has in store for us, but considering [...]
Organic flash memory
12/15/2009, The boffins at University of Tokyo have manged to develop the “organic flash memory,” a non-volatile memory which boasts a similar basic structure as flash memory despite being made out of organic materials. Both erasing and reading voltages of the [...]
Samsung mass produces 32Gb MLC NAND memory
12/01/2009, Samsung has started to mass produce 32Gb MLC NAND memory which supports an asynchronous DDR interface, having shipped out their inital batch to major OEMs. This NAND flash will see action in a variety of situations, including SSDs, SD memory [...]
Apple Bullying Flash Memory Manufacturers?
11/30/2009, Apple might be a big customer of Hynix and Samsung, who deal in flash memory, but it seems that the relationship between said parties might not be all rosy. Word on the street is that Apple has been accused by [...]
Sandisk Extreme Pro compact flash cards
09/14/2009, You might think of Compact Flash (CF) cards as a commodity, and it’s mostly true, except for the very high-end where the Sandisk Extreme Pro sits. Aimed at the professionals (and enthusiast) photographers, the “Extreme Pro” series can read and [...]
