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MP3: Flash Memory Is Best - Industry
News The Nomad Jukebox MP3 player is only the second portable player to store MP3 files on such a hard drive, most others use solid state memory like SmartMedia or Flash. Kevin Hause, manager of consumer device research at IDC, believes that flash-based...
[January 13, 2000, 9:35]
For Solutions From ISpring: Test Drive On PowerPoint To Flash Industry
Blog The developers from Russia made a great success on PowerPoint to Flash conversion technologies called FlashSpring in recent years, which seems really rock solid on the conversion quality. Days ago, they leveled up the simple but powerful converter...
[March 23, 2008, 9:03]
Toshiba And Samsung Join 128Mb Flash Race
News The race to set the industry standard for flash memory heated-up yesterday when Toshiba and Samsung joined forces to support a 128Mb flash memory format based on Toshiba's SmartMedia brand. The joint initiative follows other industry collaborations...
[December 12, 1997, 14:39]
Motorola Crystallises Memory Breakthrough
News Motorola plans to announce on Monday that it has manufactured prototypes of a flash memory chip that relies on a thin layer of silicon crystals to retain data, a breakthrough that could help the flash industry overcome looming technical hurdles.
[March 31, 2003, 8:08]
Intel Starts Producing 1Gbit Flash Memory
News Intel has launched what it claims is "the industry's first volume shipments" of 65nm NOR flash memory products. Intel's 1Gbit 65nm NOR flash chip, which it claims is an industry first The multi-level cell (MLC) products — which include a 1Gbit 65nm...
[November 10, 2006, 16:15]
AMD Revamps Memory Group
News The new units will split up responsibilities for selling flash memory for embedded and wireless products and will focus on emerging markets such as the auto industry. Flash memory, which is used in a large number of electronics devices such as cell...
[December 16, 2002, 15:10]
Four-bit-per-cell Flash Memory Demoed
News Spansion's nitride-based MirrorBit technology, coupled with the industry-tested MLC approach to multiplying Flash density, promises to drive Flash costs to the next level of affordability," Handy added.
[September 27, 2006, 14:05]
Apple Sews Up Flash Market
News The creation of this new company supports Intel's intent to maintain its industry-leading position in non-volatile memory and enables us to rapidly enter a fast-growing portion of the flash market segment," Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive...
[November 22, 2005, 8:55]
IBM Pulls Digital Tagging Plan
News The plan was under consideration by T13, an industry coalition of hard drive and flash memory makers. Under the plan, digital tags would have been incorporated into recordable CDs and flash memory cards used in MP3 players.
[February 23, 2001, 11:30]
Flash Memory Begins To Fade
News Industry estimates forecast that flash revenue will hit $13bn (£8.29bn) this year, up from $7.7bn in 2002, according to Jim Handy, a memory services executive with Semico Research. By 2007, flash memory is expected to be a $43bn industry.
[March 27, 2003, 16:17]
Is Macromedia Forgetting Who Helped Put It On Top?
News The company's product line was quickly changed to attack this new market and two of the products it introduced, Dreamweaver and Flash, became the most widely used products in their respective categories.
[November 24, 2002, 20:45]
Flash-based Notebooks Plagued By Returns
News While the returns are bad news for notebook makers right now, the problems also dim the outlook for the flash industry in general. Flash manufacturers are looking for applications that will suck up the large volume of chips coming out of factories...
[March 18, 2008, 11:41]
Flash Memory Sales Driven By Nand
News Advancements in flash card performance, in conjunction with decreasing prices at the component level, will drive new flash card usage in applications such as mobile phones and digital video cameras, providing growth opportunities for the industry...
[September 12, 2003, 11:50]
New Technology To Help Squelch Music Piracy
News The plans are initially likely to affect removable or portable data storage, such as Zip drives or the Flash memory cards used in MP3 players. IBM researcher Jeffery Lotspiech, who developed much of the CPRM specifications, says his company is...
[December 28, 2000, 11:16]
How Do You Pick The Right Internet Technology For Enterprise Presentations?
Blog While the Internet brings a lot of noise where “it’s cool” is the most popular definition for Ajax or Flash widgets, we need to make an overview of what’s out there on the rich Internet applications for enterprises.
[March 3, 2008, 13:05]
Hard-drive Makers Look To The Middle Ground
News Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. It relies on flash memory, which is more expensive but faster than microdrives. It gives you more competition with flash and...
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Intel Looks At Leap In Handheld Memory
News Analysts say that handheld makers are definitely interested in a new type of memory that is cheaper than flash. Although revenue from flash memory has been hit hard by the slow economy -- especially due to lagging cell phone sales -- it represents...
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
Samsung Clears The Way For 16GB Flash Disks
News Samsung Electronics announced Monday that it has developed an 8GB NAND-type flash memory chip with a 60-nano design rule, paving the way for 16GB flash disks. The 8Gb NAND flash memory will allow designs of up to 16 gigabytes (GB) of storage on a...
[September 21, 2004, 8:10]
Rivals Line Up Behind IPod
News A portable music player that uses flash memory rather than a hard drive can be more compact but will hold less data. Instead, the Japanese giant will concentrate for now on portable music devices that depend on minidiscs, flash memory or CDs, a...
[October 23, 2003, 11:15]
Start-up To Release 3D Chips
News Companies such as Sony and Toshiba currently use flash memory in their removable memory cards. Similar flash memory cards now cost $38 or more. Lee added that Matrix's chips will fit in the same packages as current flash, so there won't be an...
[December 5, 2001, 13:08]
