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Flash Memory Sales Driven By Nand
News Worldwide sales of flash memory cards are set to grow, driven by a drop in Nand memory prices and a rise in sales of consumer devices with the technology, according to Gartner. Prices for Nand (Not And) electronic logic gate components -- a newer...
[September 12, 2003, 11:50]
FlashDB: Dynamic Self-Tuning Database For NAND Flash
White Papers FlashDB is a self-tuning database optimized for sensor networks using NAND flash storage. In practical systems flash is used in different packages such as on-board flash chips, compact flash cards, secure digital cards and related formats.
[May 23, 2007, 0:00]
Alternatives To Using NAND Flash
White Papers The trend of using NAND in mobile platforms is pushed by new and growing data services offered by carriers, increasing the requirement for data storage, and by hardware manufacturers' desire to decrease BOM cost.
[September 23, 2004, 0:00]
Open NAND Flash Interface: The First Wave Of NAND Standardization
White Papers This presentation discusses problems Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) was formed to solve. The presentation discusses ONFI roadmap and opportunities to get involved and provides final technical details of ONFI 1.0 specification.
[November 3, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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. It has forecast that by 2008, one third of laptops will use solid-state hard drive, rather than rotating...
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
Apple Sews Up Flash Market
News Intel and Micron Technology are launching a joint venture to produce NAND flash memory, with Apple prepaying $500m (£290m) to secure its place in line for the popular technology, the companies said on Monday.
[November 22, 2005, 8:55]
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. NAND Flash memory is used in CompactFlash cards, and also in portable devices...
[May 31, 2005, 17:50]
CompactFlash Gets Storage Boost
News Toshiba on Thursday announced 4GB and 2GB CompactFlash cards for use in digital camcorders, music players and cameras.The cards feature 90nm NAND flash memory technology, the company said. The drives are based on multilevel cell NAND flash.
[January 7, 2005, 11:55]
Hynix Sees Semiconductor Profits Plummet
News The company attributed the sharp tumble to the "worsened profitability of NAND flash due to severe price erosion," as well as the growing strength of Korean won against the US dollar. Hynix's two major products are DRAM and NAND flash memory chips...
[April 20, 2006, 13:35]
IPod Sparks Record Boom In Chip Sales
News The healthy outlook was attributable to "strong growth in the NAND flash market", according to Andrew Norwood, research vice-president at Gartner. According to Gartner, Samsung now dominates most areas of the memory market, holding the number one...
[December 9, 2005, 16:25]
AMD Exposes Flash Plans
News These chips will be capable of being inserted into cell phones, which typically use NOR flash memory, the kind made by Intel and AMD, and camera flash cards, which usually use NAND flash, made by Samsung and Toshiba.
[November 9, 2004, 9:38]
Infineon Turns To Flash
News However, the variety being manufactured by Infineon, known as NAND, is more popular for handhelds, such as music players, memory cards for cameras and key-ring storage devices that connect to a PC via a Universal Serial Bus port -- the interface...
[January 7, 2004, 15:45]
Spansion Redevelops Mobile Phone Chip Architecture
News The three types of flash memory — NOR, NAND and Quad — each bring specific benefits and drawbacks. Conversely, NAND flash can handle the storage requirements of a high-end smartphone, but the slow copying of data from NAND flash into a phone's RAM...
[April 3, 2007, 12:25]
Intel Announces Flash Alliance
News Intel and STMicro will also cooperate on other technical issues, such as designing interfaces and packages that accommodate NOR flash, NAND flash and regular DRAM. The alliance between the two is likely to strengthen the NOR camp in the ongoing NOR...
[December 6, 2005, 9:00]
Spansion Sees Profits In Flash Memory's Future
News Although NAND prices swing up and down, NAND volumes continue to increase annually. NAND is the killer app," Mike Splinter, chief executive of Applied Materials, which makes semiconductor equipment, said in a recent interview.
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
Intel Makes 1Gb Flash Step
News NAND memory has come on strong, however, as memory cards and other devices take advantage of its density and fast write speeds. NAND memory is expected to produce 69 percent of all flash memory revenue in 2006, whereas in 2004 it accounted for 45...
[April 4, 2006, 9:35]
Intel Reveals Flash Card Plan
News NOR, however, is less dense than the NAND flash made by Samsung and Toshiba that's used in cards to store data such as MP3 files and photos. Sibley chips will arrive in the second half of 2005 and will initially be capable of holding 512Mb of data...
[March 3, 2005, 7:50]
Flash USB Drives Take Off
News Handy said USB drives should provide a major boost to NAND, a new, lower-cost version of flash memory that can store data but can't execute software instructions. NAND give you a cheaper price for just doing data storage," he said.
[November 12, 2002, 8:25]
Intel Plans Flash Makeover
News NAND flash sits inside MP3 players and portable flash cards like Sony's Memory Stick. Shipments of products using this technology more than doubled in 2003, lifting the fortunes of NAND manufacturers like Samsung and Toshiba.
[February 23, 2004, 9:55]
