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 »
It’s expected that Apple will update the MacBook Air line this July, but with what, exactly? According to components manufacturers that the Japanese website Macotakara.jp spoke to, they’ll include the latest 19-nanometer NAND chips which have been soldered right onto the motherboard, as opposed to using an mSATA connector to fuse the SSD to the motherboard. 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 »
They invented flash memory, so it’s only fitting that Toshiba has now produced another world first for NAND memory: the first with 128GB of capacity. Just think what media you could store on your phone with that module. More »
JMicron is preparing to debut its new NAND flash controller at Computex, and with it the company intends to boast it can slash SSD pricing by 50% in time for the holiday season.
Toshiba has announced it’s beefing-up its line of NAND flash storage chips to 32GB sizes. The new package combines eight 4GB 43-nanometer chips into one—double the previous generation’s capacity—and is specifically aimed at the portable device market. Since it can be dropped into existing slots, manufacturers have to make no specific changes to accommodate the new chips. Toshiba, of course, doesn’t name its clients, but suffice it to say Apple is on the list. The new chips will be available as samples in September, with bulk production starting soon after. [Electronista]
