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...

The contenders include the OCZ Vertex 4 128GB, Samsung 840 120GB and Crucial m4 128GB. The most affordable high-capacity SSD featured in our roundup is the Kingston SSDNow V+200 120GB, while the... More...

DDR4 memory, the faster, more power-efficient successor to DDR3, will be available in computers by next year, according to Micron. Samples of the upcoming memory type are already shipping. More...

In the latest update to the official Windows 8 blog, Microsoft explains how it allows Windows 8 to reclaim memory for Metro apps, even when they are suspended. More...

The Japanese company remarks the anniversary of NAND Flash memory, a storage medium invented by its researchers 25 years ago. Flash enabled the contemporary mobility of contents, the company says. More...

Want to know exactly what is inside your smartphone? Look no further than this massive 7-part guide that goes over all of it. Today's section goes over device RAM and internal/external storage More...

Android's APK installers, historically limited to 50MB, have had their cap raised in an attempt to make larger apps more viable and readily available. More...

Microsoft builds upon the memory savings offered by Windows 7 with further penny-pitching techniques in Windows 8, as today's "Building Windows 8" blog post explains. More...

Microsoft is set to make Windows 8 run on equal hardware to that of Windows 7. Their goal is that if your machine can run Windows 7, it can also run Windows 8. More...

RAMDisk is the right product for you if you have a disk I/O bound application that is small enough to fit in main memory. RAMDisk is also great for storing frequently accessed data such as... More...

The SD Association has announced that as part of their continuing development of the SD 4.0 standard, new ‘dual-row pin’ SDXC memory cards will soon be available. The new design allows cards to increase read/write speeds... More...

The New York Times is reporting nine memory chip makers are expected to be fined by European Union regulators this week for illegal price fixing. The companies which have been charged are Samsung Electronics, NEC... More...

Samsung is planning to put a new type of storage in smartphones starting later this year. They claim the new medium could increase battery life by 20%. It is called Phase Change Memory or PCM. According... More...

Major Nelson is reporting that Microsoft plans to enable Xbox 360 owners to store profiles, saves, game demos, and other Xbox files on any USB memory device starting April 6th. It will come in the... More...

A new study has found that if magnetic-based hard disk drives (HDDs) continue to progress at their current rate then by 2020 we'll see a 2.5" HDD with a capacity of more than 14TB at... More...

Kingston Technology Company is adding a 32GB SDHC Flash card to the Elite Pro line of products. "With the growing popularity of digital video and the HD format, consumers continue to look for... More...

Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Or exactly what the company president said at the morning meeting? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are... More...

Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about... More...

Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It... More...

According to a Japanese researcher it looks like theres a possibility that within the next few years, protein could be playing an important role in the operation of your computer. The research is being done... 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...

Comodo Memory Firewall is a buffer overflow detection and prevention tool which provides the ultimate defence against one of the most serious and common attack types on the Internet - the buffer overflow attack. Comodo... More...

Samsung Electronics next year plans to begin mass production of a new type of graphics memory that both consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips. Called GDDR (Graphics Double Data Rate) 5,... More...

Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests. Before I... More...

Anyone who uses Firefox on Windows knows the browser has an almost insatiable appetite for memory, and it's not unheard of for PCs to allocate a half GB or more of memory just to the... More...

David Morse, Amiga Computer's co-founder passed away last week. I will remember him always. Dave's obituary can be found here. Dave, was always an inspiration to me... not only from back in the old Amiga... 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...

With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule. There are several relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide... 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...

Not only do Advanced Micro Devices' new tenth-generation microprocessors promise to increase performance because of micro-architectural improvements and the increased amount of processing engines, they apparently feature DDR3 memory controller as well. Technical documents that... 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...

The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to... More...

Corsair Memory has quietly, as these are not the industry's first modules at the new speed bins, announced its 1600MHz and 1800MHz DDR3 memory modules. The new Corsair Dominator DDR3 memory modules come as 2GB... More...

AMD has unveiled a new memory controller system which it claims will double the memory capacity on its high-end server and workstation systems. The G3MX technology will target memory intensive systems such as virtualisation servers... More...

Since DDR3 memory technology is nowhere near wide availability yet, Asustek Computer, the world's largest producer of computer mainboards, has decided to offer a motherboard with pre-installed DDR3 modules and specifically tailored heat-spreaders. The manufacturer... More...

Intel has postponed the transfer of its Turbo Memory technology (Robson) to desktop PCs due to its version 1.0 BIOS and drivers not working as the company expected, according to sources at motherboard makers. During... More...

Despite of various demonstrations of how additional NAND flash cache can improve performance of modern computers and take advantage of Microsoft Windows Vista additional capabilities, mainboard makers are still reluctant to install appropriate hardware on... 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...

A Taiwanese research institute has produced a new global memory card standard, called the miCard (Multiple Interface Card), designed to work in smaller consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, mobile phones and any device with... More...

Samsung has announced that it has developed a new 4GB multi-chip package destined for mobile phones. The electronics giant calls its new chip package "moviMCP" and calls the NAND flash memory included within the package... More...

Samsung Electronics revealed that 21 of its DDR3 memory chips and modules have been validated by Intel, meaning they are certified as compatible with Intel's PC chip sets. The newer chips will offer data transfer... More...

Micron Technology, a maker of dynamic random access memory, has announced 1066MHz DDR2 modules. Using 1Gb 1066MHz DDR2 memory devices manufactured with the 78nm process technology, Micron has created 512MB, 1GB and 2GB memory modules... More...

Researchers from security vendor Sophos say a new worm targeting removable drives, called the SillyFD-AA worm, searches for removable drives such as floppy disks and USB memory sticks and creates a hidden autorun.inf file which... More...

Chip start-up Eye-Fi has created a memory card that includes a Wi-Fi chip. When a picture is taken, the photo is automatically sent to a photo site, according to Ken Elefant, a partner at Opus... 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...

Japanese subsidiary of Buffalo Technology Inc., a leading maker of advanced memory modules and other electronics, has announced the world's first memory modules based on DDR3 chips. While there are several months to go till... More...

Sony has announced its first Sony Memory Stick PRO-HG media card, which will ship in August 2007. The Memory Stick PRO-HG, available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities, is a step-up of Sony's Memory Stick... More...

After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money. Nevertheless, as the demand... 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...

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced plans to launch a 512-megabyte memory unit for the Xbox 360 video game console on April 3. It is expected to have a retail price... More...