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Apple Spending Tons Of Cash On Israeli Super Memory

12:35AM December 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Israeli financial paper Calcalist reports Apple has thrown down some serious stacks to acquire Anobit, a flash memory firm. But the purported $US400-500 million (!) buyout isn’t just for any memory firm — Anobit says its memory’s faster and cheaper. More »


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128GB NAND Chips Promise SD Cards With Terabytes Of Storage

3:40PM December 7, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

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 »


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Updated MacBook Airs Could Get Speedy 400Mbps Flash Storage

5:40PM July 5, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

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 »


0.07-Second Power Outage Completely Halts Production At Factory

7:53AM December 10, 2010 | Casey Chan

A very, very brief power outage at a Toshiba factory forced the company to completely halt operations at the critical plant. This could mean as much as a 20 per cent drop in chip shipments, which could lead to product shortages everywhere. More »


Flash Memory May Be 10,000 Times Faster In Just 3 Years

12:49AM October 14, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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 »


Imagine Toshiba’s 128GB NAND Flash Memory In Your Next Phone

12:00AM June 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

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 »


Samsung’s 64GB Chip Means Serious Storage For iPhones, PMPs

4:20PM January 13, 2010 | Dan Nosowitz

Samsung’s new 64GB flash NAND and 32GB microSD card may be the first of each to market, bringing lots more storage space to phones like the iPhone, Droid and Nexus One as well as other handheld devices. Big win! More »


JMicron NAND Flash Controller Could Slash SSD Prices By 50%

4:00AM June 1, 2009 | Jack Loftus

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.

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Samsung Ships First 32GB moviNAND Chips (Translation: More Storage In Your Pocket, Sooner)

7:45PM May 13, 2009 | John Herrman

They’re not the first major manufacturer to ship 32-gigabit NAND chips, nor are they the first to sell 32-gigabyte embedded cards. But they are the biggest, which means this step could have huge, fantastic consequences.

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Toshiba Flash Chips Doubled to 32GB, Good for PMPs, Mobile Phones

7:05PM August 8, 2008 | Kit Eaton

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]

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