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 »
Peripherals
Corsair Flash Voyager 128GB USB: As Big And Fast As A Small Fish
10:55AM Brian Lam | One day, 128GB flash drives will be common. We’ll lose em and only say “oops”. Today, you can have one if you don’t mind the size and price of this $US400 Corsair. But F me, this thing isn’t fast. 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 »
Peripherals
Bluetooth Headset Hides Super Ultra Secret MicroSD Reader
1:00AM Mark Wilson | So you never grew up to hide lasers, explosives and gadgets in every known orifice like James Bond. But maybe you’d find a microSDHC reader in your Bluetooth headset to be handy. And that dream is only $US40 away. [Brando]
Peripherals
Ninja Kunai Flash Drive Guarantees Airport Full Cavity Search
4:40AM Jesus Diaz | I don’t know if this $US125 Ninja Kunai 2GB flash memory drive is made of metal or not. They don’t say in the product page description. What they say in the warning has me a bit worried, though: More »
Peripherals
SanDisk ExtremePro Cards Are Extremely Fast, Extremely Expensive
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | The best $US50 I’ve spent in a month was on a roomier CompactFlash card for video-taking DSLRs, but it looks like I should’ve waited: SanDisk’s new ExtremePro line push 90MB/second read/write speeds and comes in 16, 32 and 64GB sizes. More »
Peripherals
Sony Increases Memory Stick Pro Duo Capacity To 32GB
3:58AM Sean Fallon | Shortly after giving the Pro-HG Duo a similar treatment, Sony has gone and bumped up the capacity of the Pro Duo to 32GB. For those of you keeping track, that equates to around 225 minutes in full HD mode for Handycam owners. Cyber-Shot users can also get 29 minute clips in 720p. [CrunchGear]
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