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Memory price hikes fail to dampen SSD growth
News Recent NAND flash price spikes' impact on shipments of solid-state drives has been "modest", with 2009 units expected to jump 100 percent year-on-year, says IDC.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., iSuppli Corp., PC Company, International Data Corp., NAND Flash, Spokesperson, Small And Medium Business
Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB)
Reviews The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable, saviour.
Tags: Gamer, PCI Express, Chip, Card, Ubuntu, NAND, operating system, Fusion-io, firmware, hard drive
Yoggie Firestick Pico
Reviews The Firestick Pro is an affordable and effective hardware firewall on a USB stick, designed to protect notebooks when connected to the internet outside the company network.
Samsung upbeat about memory chip recovery
News The company, confident it widened its gap with rivals during the downturn, expects supply of both DRAM and NAND chips to fall short of demand in 2010.
Tags: Memory, Storage, revenue, mobile, Memory Chip, Semiconductor, Chip, NAND, Korean company, printing
Toshiba, SanDisk to cut NAND flash production
News The manufacturers are to cut production by 30 percent at a shared plant in Japan, in response to a recession-related drop in demand.
Tags: Cost control, Best strategies, Budgeting/cost control, SanDisk Corp., Wafer, NAND Flash, NAND, device manufacturer, Japan, recession
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory creates new hurdle for adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Intel Corp., iSuppli Corp., Price, Chip Company, NAND Flash, NAND, Notebook, Pricing
Analyst: Apple placed chip order for 32GB iPhones
News Apple reportedly places sizable order with Samsung for 8Gb and 16Gb NAND flash chips, with majority of chips expected to be used for building a new smartphone model.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile processors, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, Apple Inc., Supplier, Chip, chip supplier, NAND, Wall Street
Micron, Intel move to 34nm NAND flash
News The very small-format, high-capacity 32Gb flash memory chips should be available soon for use in devices such as cameras and personal music players.
Tags: Memory, Digital cameras, Music devices, Storage, Intel Corp., Memory Chip, Chip, NAND Flash, Storage, NAND
Samsung contemplating SanDisk acquisition
News South Korean consumer electronics giant is considering a buyout of the chipmaker to reduce its NAND flash memory costs, according to PaidContent.
Tags: Acquisitions, Processors, Memory, SanDisk Corp., NAND flash, NAND, consumer electronics company, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., music player, blog
Apple taking chunk of Samsung's flash chips
News The order of 50 million 8 gigabyte chips should go a long way toward keeping Apple in flash memory during the initial ramp of the iPhone 3G.
Tags: Mobile processors, Smart phones, Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Chip, NAND flash, NAND, 3G, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Seagate to avoid solid-state drives for now
News Chief executive Bill Watkins sees potential in flash memory and SSDs but says the economics do not yet add up.
Tags: Hardware, Storage, SAS Institute, Seagate Technology LLC, Storage, NAND flash, NAND, performance, power consumption, CEO
Hitachi, Intel sign pact to develop enterprise SSDs
News The partners will work together on delivering solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems.
Tags: Processors, Memory, Servers, Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Storage, enterprise storage, Serial Attached SCSI, performance
Is flash a bright spot in recession?
News Fall in consumer demand is affecting its growth, but surge in smartphones and solid-state drives bodes well for flash from 2011 in Asia, say observers.
Tags: Memory, Smart Phone, Asia, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Storage, enterprise storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., recession, flash memory
Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Reviews Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Notebook, notebook hard drive, Gist, hard drive, flash memory, desktop
Consumer electronics hit by inventory glut
News Inventories pile up for manufacturers of computers, mobile phones and TVs, signaling a worse-than-forecast fourth quarter.
Tags: Hardware, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Cost control, Business development/management, SanDisk Corp., Inventory, TV, Electronics, Sales
