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Toshiba, SanDisk to cut Nand flash production
News Toshiba and SanDisk, who share a Nand flash manufacturing plant in Japan, have said they are to reduce production from the start of 2009, as a result of the recession. This is particularly notable in Nand flash memories, where decreased demand for...
[December 16, 2008, 13:21]
Micron, Intel move to 34nm Nand flash
News Intel and Micron Technology are moving to mass production of their jointly developed Nand flash memory chips that use 34nm (nanometre) technology. The companies said in a statement on Monday that they were "ahead of schedule" in the development of...
[November 26, 2008, 12:35]
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
Blog There are two types of SSD, the multi-level cell NAND flash and the single-level cell NAND flash. Briefing time! Intel is telling us about its solid-state drives. Multi-level cell stores more bits per memory location but at a performance hit...
[August 19, 2008, 19:43]
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]
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News A steep rise in prices for Nand-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drive technology in notebooks, according to market analysis company iSuppli. Their adoption in notebooks had been helped by low prices for...
[July 9, 2009, 16:58]
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]
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]
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]
Flash Memory Technology Direction
White Papers A number of key new computing system initiatives - including Windows Vista ReadyBoost and Windows ReadyDrive technologies - exploit the performance, economy, power efficiency, and high reliability of NAND Flash memory.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Hitachi, Intel sign pact to develop enterprise SSDs
News The partnership will combine the expertise of Hitachi in enterprise disk drives with Intel's expertise in Nand technology and manufacturing, to deliver Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel-equipped solid-state drives for the enterprise...
[December 2, 2008, 12:02]
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]
