OCZ is finally ready to unveil its first truly in-house SSD controller. It's been three years since Indilinx released a new controller and they are doing so today with the Barefoot 3 and the Vector... More...

Wait, your SSD wasn't fast enough? You'll be pleased to know a group of Japanese researchers agree, so they've managed to find a way to squeeze some more performance from available technologies. More...

Breaking the speed barrier of traditional flash memory, Intel and Micron Thursday announced a new flash memory architecture that increases the data transfer rates in consumer electronics by cutting the bottlenecks affecting conventional NAND flash... More...

Electronics giant Samsung has shown off what it claims is the world's most powerful chip for use in memory cards. The 64 gigabit (Gb) chips could be used to make 128 gigabyte memory cards, commonly... More...

Japanese electronics firm Toshiba Corp. said it had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice about its flash memory business in the key U.S. market. Toshiba America Electronic Components, the company's U.S. semiconductor sales... More...

Nokia said today it is collaborating with several of its rivals to create a common flash memory card format. First virtual machines, now flash, what is the world coming to? The proposed specification is being... More...

Japan's Toshiba plans to speed up its flash memory expansion plans and boost production capacity by 70 percent by June 2008, six months ahead of schedule. Toshiba, the world's second-largest maker of NAND flash chips,... More...

Zune 2.0 and iPod Nano 3G anyone? Samsung has announced that it is the first company to begin mass production of 16Gb NAND flash memory using the 51 nanometre manufacturing process. The memory is based... More...

Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years. Intel CTO Justin Rattner demonstrated a 128-bit sample of code-name Alverston at the Intel Developer Forum in... More...

In April 2007, Toshiba will begin selling NAND flash memory chips capable of holding up to 2GB of data. 2GB? Why is this a big deal? Patience my friend, I'm getting to that. The 2GB... More...

Researchers at Samsung, one of the leading producers of flash-memory chips, recently announced a new chip that can hold twice as much data as before, and without an increase in its footprint on a circuit... More...

Opinion: Hard disk advocates have long looked down their noses at flash storage. But enterprise storage pros may be thinking differently about solid state, even (gasp! for RAID. Flash memory is catching the notice of... More...

The company Spansion claimed that its MirrorBit Quad technology is designed to expand Flash memory capabilities and lower the cost of storing large volumes of digital content inside electronic devices. MirrorBit Quad will form the... More...

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new kind of memory chip Monday, PRAM (phase-change RAM), aimed at replacing NOR flash memory in mobile phones. The new kind of chip, which will be commercially available in 2008,... More...

According to the BBC flash memory prices are due to drop significantly by around 25%. The slump in price of memory chips is thought to be because of an... More...

Apple® announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba to secure the supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. As part of these agreements, Apple intends to... More...

Roaring demand for flash memory chips, popular in hot-selling music players and digital cameras, will accelerate later this year, but prices will stay weak as industry leader Samsung holds prices down. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.... More...

No more long waits for your PC to wake up. Longer laptop battery life. Data that survives a drop. These are the promises of solid-state-memory disks (SSDs), which use flash memory to supplement or replace... More...

With mobile gear getting smaller as time goes on, the demand for a smaller storage device has increased. With that in mind, Samsung has recently begun production of its new NAND flash memory chips. ... More...

Intel wants to be No. 1 again, and in a flash. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, which slipped from first to fourth place in the flash memory market last year, is revamping its... More...

A REPORT ON NIKKEI NET said that Toshiba will invest ¥15 billion to expand a factory in Yokkaichi that makes Flash memory. That follows a decision Toshiba made last month to spend ¥350... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is sampling a new flash memory chip that promises to double storage capacity and give Intel a run for its money in the market for cellular phones and other consumer electronics devices.... More...

As part of its push into wireless, Intel has unveiled a flash memory chip that promises to reduce the time it takes to get information from mobile phones and handhelds. The upcoming chip, called... More...