Smartphone, tablet sales driving growth in mobile memory
SAN JOSE – The HGST division of Western Digital demonstrated a solid-state disk drive with a 12 Gbit/second Serial Attached SCSI interface working with chips from LSI and PMC-Sierra. The tech demo rep ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. narrowed the gap in NAND
Flash memory with market leaders Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2011, according ...
Smart memory seen as cure for user-interface bottlenecks
SAN FRANCISCO—
Flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. Thursday (April 26) reported a loss on declining sales for the first quarter, but said it expects a revenue increase and return to profitability in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Flash memory maker SanDisk Corp. Thursday (April 19) reported quarterly sales and profit that fell short of analysts' expectations and said it expects sales to fall significantly further ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A wide group of vendors is poised to roll solid-state drives for the PCI Express bus, promising improved performance over current
Flash drives that mainly use serial ATA and Serial- ...
LONDON – Mosaid Technologies Inc., a licensor of memory-related semiconductor intellectual property, has announced that it is now sampling a 16-die stacked NAND
Flash memory component with a memory ca ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp. said Tuesday (April 3) that preliminary results indicate that the company will report first quarter sales of about $1.2 billion, below the company's for ...
Samsung to spend $7 billion on wafer fab in Xian, China
SAN FRANCISCO—NOR
Flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. will offer single-level-cell (SLC) NAND
Flash devices for the embedded market under the terms of a deal announced Monday (April 2) with SK Hynix Inc ...
LONDON – Memory chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor Inc. is changing its name to SK Hynix Inc. This comes after mobile network operator SK Telecom Co. Ltd. completed the acquisition of a 21 percent ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. will acquire Intel Corp.'s stake in two IM
Flash Technologies LLC fabs operated by the two companies for about $600 million, the companies said Tuesday (Feb. 28). ...
LONDON – Genusion Ltd., a fabless Japanese memory IP company, has announced that is has licensed its B4-
Flash non-volatile memory technology to Rohm Group and Rohm subsidiary Lapis Semiconductor Co. L ...
ISSCC: SanDisk set to show highest density NAND
Flash
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Smart Storage Systems officially debuted as a standalone company focused on solid-state drives for business systems, rolling out its latest product, the Optimus Ultra a high-end ser ...
LONDON –
Flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) is looking for a director of processing engineering management for a 3-D resistive RAM team based in Milpitas. A job ad for the position w ...
LONDON – SanDisk Corp. has announced the X100 solid-state drive (SSD) for design in to desktop, notebook and thin laptop computers. The unit is available in capacities up to 512-Gbyte and comes with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp. Wednesday (Feb. 15) announced the acquisition of
FlashSoft Corp., a provider of caching software, for an undisclosed purchase price. SanDisk (Milpitas, ...
LONDON – Spin Transfer Technologies Inc., a startup pursing the development of a type of magnetic random access memory, has raised $36 million in a series A funding round led by Allied Minds Inc. and ...
Analyst ranks chip markets by 2012 growth prediction
DRAM Exchange has released the 4Q11 sales ranking of branded NAND
Flash manufacturers, with Samsung taking top share.
CONSUMERS have long had to deal with dinky little
Flashes on their smartphones and some compact cameras, but this could change with a new chip by STMicroelectronics.
LONDON – Hynix Semiconductor Inc. made a smaller loss in the fourth quarter than it did in the third quarter on sequentially increasing sales. The company was hit by declining average selling prices i ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. Thursday (Jan. 26) reported a revenue decline for the fourth quarter and a net loss that was partly attributed to charges related to the company's restr ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Apple will integrate Anobit rather than run it as a separate unit, according to comments made by CEO Tim Cook, referring to his firm’s $390 million Israeli acquisition.
Flash mem ...
Elpida announces ReRAM chip, aims to enter market 2013
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Sales of
Flash memory chips are expected to eclipse sales of DRAM for the first time in 2012, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc. IC Insights (Scottsdale, Ariz.) proje ...
LONDON – Consumer electronics giant Apple has bought
Flash memory controller startup Anobit Technologies Ltd. for about $390 million, according to Bloomberg report that referenced two unnamed Anobit s ...
CONFIRMING rumours from 2010, Apple has bought Israeli company Anobit Technologies, which makes
Flash memory technology.
SAN FRANCISCO—IHS iSuppli said Monday (Jan. 9) that its teardown services unit identified a radio frequency microelectromechanical system (RF MEMS) device in a new Samsung cellphone, marking the first ...
Here are some memory-related DesignCon presentation and forum highlights.
LONDON – Toshiba has announced the development of BENAND, a form of single-level cell, NAND
Flash memory with embedded error correction code (ECC).Until now, the ECC has been embedded in the host proc ...
COMPACT
Flash Association has announced the successor of its Compact
Flash (CF) memory cards: the XQD.
LONDON – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has received permission from the South Korean Ministry of Knowledge and Economy to build a NAND
Flash memory wafer fab in China with the proviso that the ministry ...
LONDON – Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. could be the first casualty of the DRAM nuclear winter and Toshiba is being discussed as a potential purchaser, according to a report from DRAMexchange, a market re ...
Flash memory rights protection – or protectionist?
LONDON – Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have reached an agreement in principle to collaborate on a content protection technology for
Flash memory cards such as SD Cards and for other fl ...
Our editors reflect on some of the gadgets and gizmos that they personally find most useful, most fun, or most intriguing.
Renesas develops 40-nm embedded automotive
Flash memory
SAN FRANCISCO--Texas Instruments Inc. has unveiled what it claims to be the smallest power management ICs (PMICs) for solid state drives (SSDs), hybrid drives and other
Flash memory applications.The t ...
LONDON – PC and consumer goods firm Apple is in talks to buy startup Anobit Technologies Ltd. and is prepared between $400 million and $500 million, according to a report in a Hebrew publication calle ...
COMPACT
Flash Association has announced the successor of its Compact
Flash (CF) memory cards: the XQD.
LONDON – European research institute IMEC has reported a Resistive RAM (RRAM) memory cell that measures 10-nm by 10-nm at the International Electron Devices Meeting, which took place Dec. 5 to 7 in Wa ...
INTEL and Micron have announced a 128Gb NAND
Flash memory device, the world’s first 20nm multilevel-cell (MLC) device at that capacity.
LONDON – Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have announced the development of a 128-Gbit NAND
Flash memory made using an improved 20-nm manufacturing process technology for
Flash that includes hig ...
LONDON – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has said it is seeking permission to build a NAND
Flash memory wafer fab in China and get it running in 2013, according to local reports. The location has not be ...
MILPITAS, Calif. – Big data centers want lower power
Flash chips and integrated processors, said an executive who helps design Microsoft's warehouse-sized facilities. Containers are also on their way ...
MILPITAS, Calif. – Big data centers want lower power
Flash chips and integrated processors, said an executive who helps design Microsoft's warehouse-sized facilities. Containers are also on their way ...
Spot pricing for NAND
Flash devices fell by the largest percentage last week during five consecutive weeks of lower pricing, according to the latest analysis from market research firm Gartner Inc.