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New Memory Chips Get Closer, Faster And Smarter
News Physically very similar to existing memory modules, FB-DIMM is due to be approved by the JEDEC standards body by the end of the year: its chief advantage is that it circumvents the electrical signalling limits that mean as speeds go up, the...
[September 9, 2004, 10:30]
Magnetic Memory Chips Come To Market
News Freescale Semiconductor has won the race to get a magnetic form of computer memory to market, but its high price could keep it from appearing in machines in the near future. On Monday, the Austin, Texas-based specialist in embedded semiconductors...
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
ATI Speeds Up Memory Chips
News While chipmakers have made significant strides in pushing the speed of graphics processors, memory chips have lagged, said Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief of industry newsletter The Microprocessor Report.
[October 8, 2002, 8:13]
Dell Trying To Sidestep Chip 'cartel'
News Dell has opened up relationships with a wider variety of memory manufacturers to curb the effect of recent price hikes in memory chips, chief executive Michael Dell said on Tuesday. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker has begun to obtain memory...
[May 1, 2002, 16:48]
Samsung Renews Memory Deal For Xbox
News Samsung Semiconductor plans to announce on Monday that it has renewed its contract with Microsoft to supply memory chips for the company's Xbox game console. Such long-term supply agreements are particularly valuable in the turbulent memory-chip...
[January 21, 2002, 11:46]
Intel Stacks Up On Memory
News Intel has released a new package for stacking memory chips that will let manufacturers put more memory into mobile phones without increasing the size of the handsets. The new package, called the Ultra-Thin Stacked Chip Scale Package, lets...
[April 10, 2003, 8:00]
Intel Shrinks Chips To 90 Nanometres
News Intel announced that its labs have produced memory chips that contain 330 million transistors, through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream next year. The circuit designs used on the experimental SRAM chips will be used inside...
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
AMD Adds More Flash To Its Memory
News AMD is expanding the variety of chips based on its flash-memory technology that allows twice as much data to be stored on cell phones and other consumer electronics devices. The company has sold large numbers of PC chips in the last several...
[November 13, 2002, 8:13]
Samsung Starts Mass Production Of 70nm Flash
News Memory card prices look likely to fall following Samsung's announcement late on Monday that it had begun mass-producing 4Gb NAND Flash memory chips using a 70nm process. Moving to this 70nm process will allow the creation of memory chips that are...
[May 31, 2005, 17:50]
TSMC Shrinks Memory To 0.13 Microns
News TSMC) says it has successfully made SRAM memory chips using an advanced 0.13-micron manufacturing process at its Fab 12. The process will mean cheaper, more efficient memory modules for TSMC's customers, as well as potentially lower costs for...
[October 24, 2001, 17:10]
IBM And Infineon To Shake Up Memory Market?
News IBM and Infineon Technologies are working together to develop a radical new memory chip that could hypothetically replace the many types of memory chips in use today. The two companies, which will announce the effort Thursday, hope to speed...
[December 7, 2000, 8:53]
Rambus Invades With 1066MHz Memory
News US chip technology developer and intellectual property company Rambus this week announced what it claims are the world's fastest memory chips. Intel initially endorsed RDRAM as its exclusive memory for upcoming advanced chips such as the Pentium 4...
[August 2, 2000, 9:00]
Massive Computer Chip Theft At Heathrow
News Police are searching for a gang who stole over £2.6m worth of memory chips in a raid at a warehouse near Heathrow Airport on Monday morning. The items stolen are a large quantity of computer memory chips and it would be difficult to dispose of this...
[October 9, 2002, 16:37]
Samsung Unveils 32GB Flash Hard Drive
News Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. NAND flash memory is typically used today in USB memory sticks, digital music players and digital cameras.
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
Rambus Speeds Up Chip Connections
News The Los Altos, California-based memory chipmaker has engineered an interconnect technology called Redwood that lets semiconductors with proximity exchange data at rapid rates. Redwood is part of Rambus' effort to branch out of memory chip design.
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Intel Shrinks Flash Memory For Phones
News Intel on Tuesday will announce technology that will shrink the size of its flash memory chips by roughly 50 percent in the first half of 2002, a move that will give the company more leverage for undercutting competitors.
[October 24, 2001, 7:31]
Micron Pumps Up DDR2 Memory Production
News Micron Technology revealed on Monday that it has begun producing large numbers of DDR2 chips, a new generation of memory for computers. The semiconductor manufacturer is now assembling DDR2 chips into memory modules, Micron executives said on Friday.
[December 8, 2003, 14:45]
Motorola Tech Gets Flashy
News Motorola later this month will detail some of its efforts to increase the capacity of flash memory -- chips that are used to store data in millions of electronic devices. This would let Motorola double the density of its flash chips, or deliver...
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
Nanotech Set To Beef Up Chips
News Nanotechnology research in Korea and the US may produce computer memory hundreds of times denser in storage than present-day chips. When arranged vertically, this method of storage can result in a device which stores up to 200 gigabits of...
[June 19, 2003, 8:55]
AMD Exposes Flash Plans
News Spansion, the flash memory division of AMD, will come out with new chips next year that could allow it to expand into wider markets. The company announced on Monday that in the first quarter of next year it will come out with the Ornand family of...
[November 9, 2004, 9:38]
