Memory
Spansion Files Patent Complaints Against Macronix
Spansion said it has filed complaints against Macronix to address past and ongoing widespread violations of Spansion's patents in a broad and growing range of Macronix NOR Flash and XtraROM memory products. Spansion filed the complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Fede
2 min readSanDisk invests in Tegile Systems
SanDisk has announced that its strategic investment arm, SanDisk Ventures, has invested in Tegile Systems. Tegile makes hybrid storage arrays incorporating flash technology to enterprise customers. Tegile’s solutions offers unified storage combining both traditional HDDs with flash storage. “Wi
2 min readSPA, a new association for storage tech launched
HGST, Seagate, WD, and Toshiba have launched a new storage association named Storage Products Association (SPA). SPA to provide forum to educate on the role of hard disk drives (HDDs) and Solid State Hybrid Drives (SSHDs) in consumer and business environments. SPA to help storage users on storage o
2 min readDRAM market is achieving profit stability by controlling production
DRAM market is showing good signs of profit with the rise in price of some of the mainstream DRAM chips. Vendors of the DRAM chips able to make profit and control the price by controlling the production based on the demand. There is now less over supply and no high demand. DRAMeXchange has repo
4 min readSeagate invests in eASIC
eASIC Corporation has received strategic investment by Seagate Technology. Both eASIC and Seagate are also exploring opportunities to jointly develop custom silicon solutions for Seagate’s portfolio of Solid State Drives (SSD) that would combine Seagate’s expertise in SSD with eASIC’s expertise in
2 min readPanasonic makes microcomputer based on its ReRAM nonvolatile memory tech
Panasonic has announced it will start mass producing microcomputers integrated with its own nonvolatile memory called ReRAM. The nonvolatile ReRAM is a high-speed read/write memory suitable for portable high-rel products such as medical devices and security devices. Panasonic is planning to extend
1 min readSony and Panasonic partner to develop 300 GB optical discs by 2015
The Japanese optical disc storage experts Sony and Panasonic are joining hands to develop optical discs with recording capacity of at least 300 GB by end of 2015. Both to work on new standards and specifications for increased storage. Although flash memory storage is becoming very popular optica
3 min readMicron sampling 16nm made 128Gb NAND flash chip
Micron is sampling the most integrated flash memory chip of capacity 128Gb NAND flash made at 16nm node. 128Gb MLC NAND Flash memory chip is suitable for applications such as consumer SSDs, removable storage (USB drives and Flash cards), tablets, ultrathin devices, mobile handsets and data center cl
1 min readToshiba to add 4th fab to make advanced NAND flash memory chips
The leading vendor of NAND flash memory chips, Toshiba is adding another cutting edge fab at its semiconductor chip manufacturing facility in Mie, Japan. The construction of this fab to start at the end of August this year and be completed in summer next year. Yokkaichi Operations already has thr
2 min readHard disk-drive use in video-surveillance to grow by 23% in 2013, says IHS
IHS estimates revenue for both internal and external HDDs in video-surveillance applications will rise from $638.7 million this year to $1.0 billion by 2017, a remarkable 57 percent increase. Growth this year alone is forecast to reach 23 percent from 2012 revenue of $521.1 million, and double-digi
3 min readSamsung's flash memory drives read 5GB data in six minutes
By using the flash memory chips made using most advanced semiconductor manufacturing node, Samsung Electronics has started mass production of PCI-Express (PCIe) solid state drive (SSD) for next-generation ultra-slim notebook PCs. "With the Samsung XP941, we have become the first to provide the h
2 min readToshiba presents new MROM tech at VLSI design event in Japan
At Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, held in Japan, Toshiba has presented MROM cell technology with improved cell current characteristics without any increase in cell size by adopting multi-level-cell structure. Toshiba explains: MROM's main role is to store the boot loader or firmwa
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