Mobile phones have taken another step towards becoming full-fledged pocket computers with an announcement by Micron and Intel. Get ready to carry even more of your digital life on your phone. More »
Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It’s fast! But ReRAM – a joint project of Sharp and Elipa – promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialise it by 2013. What’s that mean for you? More »
Seagate and Samsung, giants of hard drives and flash memory, respectively, will work together to develop technologies for SSD storage devices. Now would be a fine time to brush up on (and covet) the great solid-state drive. [Giz]
Samsung’s following up its 30nm NAND chips from 2007 with even smaller 20nm ones. Write-speed is 30 per cent faster than the previous cards, supposedly, and are being tested in up to 64GB SD cards before they’re rolled out properly. More »
The brainiacs at H.P. think they’ve discovered a way to replace transistors with technology that will shrink chips to the atomic scale. Emphasis on “brain”. More »
Phase-changing memory looks great. It’s supposed to combine the non-volatile nature of flash-based memory with the fantastic speed of DRAM. Now Intel and Numonyx are teasing with advancements in stacking memory layers, news that brings denser PCM closer to markets. More »