flash memory
Hardware
Samsung’s New Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
5:00AM Rosa Golijan | With a thickness of only 0.6mm, Samsung’s newest NAND chips are practically anorexic, but for once that’s a good thing. Thinner chips like these could bring smaller gadgets and hopefully also lead to lower SSD prices. More »
Hardware
Phase-Changing Memory Is Closer To Market And Might Just Kill Flash
11:31AM Rosa Golijan | 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 »
Hardware
SanDisk Starts Shipping X4 Flash Cards, Will Eventually Be Awesome
7:20PM Dan Nosowitz | SanDisk’s X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they’ll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they’ve started shipping. More »
Cameras
Flash Memory Sensors: 100x Smaller Than CCDs, Better At Low Light
1:20PM Chris Jacob | CCD and CMOS sensors take great images, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. They’re bulky and bad in low light. It turns out that flash memory can actually double as a light sensor, and could solve both these problems. More »
Hardware
Corsair’s Flash Voyager GT: World’s Fastest 128GB USB Flash Drive
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Corsair, who seem to spend all their time finding speed records and then breaking them, announced their Flash Voyager GT USB flash drive at the droolworthy 128GB capacity. Even better, the speeds totally don’t suck: 32MB/s and 25.6MB/s read/write, respectively. More »
Hardware
Toshiba 64GB SDXC Card
10:39PM John Herrman | On one hand, it’s great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little but. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn’t announce an SD card six months before release. More »
Toshiba 64GB SDXC Card Is The World’s Largest, Fastest
10:39PM John Herrman | On one hand, it’s great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little but. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn’t announce an SD card six months before release. More »
Peripherals
11:30AM Nick Broughall | That 256GB Kingston Datatraveller USB thumbdrive we saw the other day? It’ll set you back $1,299. Availability is apparently “built by request”, so you need to be really sure about your purchase before you drop big ones on it…
[Kingston]
That Kingston 256GB Thumbdrive? $1,299
11:30AM Nick Broughall | That 256GB Kingston Datatraveller USB thumbdrive we saw the other day? It’ll set you back $1,299. Availability is apparently “built by request”, so you need to be really sure about your purchase before you drop big ones on it…
[Kingston]
Peripherals
SanDisk Claims Title Of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world’s fastest. More »
Hardware
Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $US169
2:40AM John Mahoney | Not a bad price at all on a mini-PCIe solid-state drive. These are intended for the Eee PC S101, but will work with any machine that can take mini-PCIe add-ons. More »
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