Memory
Three U.S. Patents related to memory storage granted to StorTrends
StorTrends, the data storage division of American Megatrends (AMI) is granted with three U.S. Patents related to memory storage technology. Below are details of patents shared by AMI: AMI was granted U.S. Patent No. 8,954,339 on Data Deduplication for Information Storage Systems, which was filed
5 min readSamsung begins volume production before Toshiba sampling 256Gb 3-D NAND
Early this month, Toshiba has announced 256 Gb three-dimensional Stacked NAND flash memory chips using a technology called 48-layer BiCS FLASH, which will be available in samples from the month of September 2015. The high-capacity NAND flash uses 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology.
2 min readSanDisk and SK Hynix settle law-suit and expand business deals
Semiconductor memory makers SanDisk and SK Hynix agreed to settle a trade secret misappropriation suit and also expand and extend IP licensing relationship and commercial relationship. SK Hynix to supply latest DRAM products for MCP and SSD applications to SanDisk and settlement of the trade secret
2 min read256Gb 3-D NAND chip from Toshiba is available from September in samples
Toshiba said it is sampling 256 Gb three-dimensional Stacked NAND flash memory chips using a technology called 48-layer BiCS FLASH from the month of September 2015. The high-capacity NAND flash uses 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology. The applications suggested for this 256Gb memory
1 min read1Mb no-battery serial SPI nvSRAM from Cypress and Anvo-Systems
If you're hunting for battery-less 1MB serial nvSRAM chips, we suggest you two new products from different vendors based on nearly same technology. One is from the Cypress Semiconductor, pioneer of this technology, and the other is from Germany-based Anvo-Systems Dresden, who fully focuses on this t
4 min readAEC-Q100-qualified 2Mbit EEPROM for engine monitoring and safety applications
STMicroelectronics has made available industry’s first AEC-Q100-qualified 2Mbit EEPROM for automotive electronics applications such as hybrid, electric vehicles, high-power truck engines. This EEPROM is suggested for storing parameters such as air volume, fuel injection, exhaust, or battery charg
2 min readNon-volatile memory tech breakthrough by Micron and Intel
The new memory technology 3D Xpoint announced jointly by Intel and Micron, which may be difficult to call as semiconductor memory, but surely a solid-state memory, is no doubt a disruptive technology. It is not something still in the labs, if you are special customer of Micron or Intel, you can imme
5 min readNAND Flash life enhanced using FPGA
Altera has designed a storage reference design based on its Arria 10 SoCs to double the life of NAND flash and also increase the number of program-erase cycles by up to 7X compared to present NAND flash implementations. The reference design uses dual-core ARM CortexA9 processor and a solid-state
1 min readCSP packaged 1-Mbit Serial FRAM for wearable electronic devices
The microcontroller/processor inside wearable electronics devices, particularly of health and physical activity monitoring type, do multiple times of reading and writing of sensor data into the nonvolatile memory, which is now mostly a flash memory. The Flash memory has some limitation in terms of
3 min read8 percent q-o-q fall in Micron's fiscal 3Q 2015 revenue
World's 4th biggest semiconductor vendor Micron Technology has reported revenue earnings of $3.85 billion for its third quarter of fiscal 2015 , which ended June 4, 2015. The revenue reported is 8 percent lower compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2015 and 3 percent lower compared to the third q
2 min readJEDEC to update solid state drive standard subcommittee
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced that its JC-64.8 Subcommittee for Solid State Drives is currently engaged in an effort to update the JESD218 standard for Solid State Drive Requirements and
2 min readSSD controllers for TLC and 3-D NAND flash
Due to triple level cell (TLC) NAND flash offering higher capacity and lowest cost per MB of NAND flash, TLC is gaining popularity in the market of NAND flash storage. There are two vendors supplying SSD controllers for TLC NAND flash and also 3-D NAND flash: 1. Silicon Motion's SM2256, is a
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