NAND flash is expected to increase in price by up to 40% this year. This will have a knock-on effect for consumer hardware that relies on NAND flash such as SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives.
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The innovations to the PCIe Gen4 SSDs include 'fail-in-place', 'SSD virtualization' and 'V-NAND machine learning', which will improve the hardware's reliability and offer greater control over it.
The company announced mass production of its sixth-generation V-NAND SSDs with the industry's first 100+ layer single-tier design that boasts faster access speeds and efficient power usage.
The average price of NAND flash memory chips is expected to decline until 1H 2019. Combined with the performance standardization of the market, consumer SSD pricing is rapidly dropping down.
We will have to change the definition of 'fast' storage, as Seagate has just revealed a production-ready NVMe drive design that makes even the second fastest look like a turtle.
Intel has been having some trouble with Moore's Law recently, but the company has pushed memory research into overdrive. They're now announcing a major breakthrough that could change everything.
According to industry sources, Samsung will not only build Apple's next-gen chips but will also provide upcoming iPhones with flash memory. If true it might mean better storage in upcoming devices.
A Japanese research team studying the NAND chips used in solid state drives has discovered a way to boost the speed of the devices by up to 300% with nothing more than a simple firmware update.
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Crossbar's PR rep has told Neowin that their upcoming Resistive RAM (RRAM) tech will have "for the same cost, twice the density of NAND with much better performance."
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.
Apple is set to acquire Israeli NAND flash design firm Anobit for an estimated $500 million dollars, according to a report by Reuters. Apple also plans to invest in a new R&D facility in Israel.
Apple has plans to phase production of the NAND and DRAM that Samsung current supplies them with for the iPhone and iPad.
As Japan attempts to recover and rebuild after the devastating natural disasters of the past week, the effects of nature’s wrath on the tech industry is slowly becoming clear. According to Engadget, tech giants Sony,...
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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...
Samsung Electronics has started sampling an 8-Gbyte NAND flash memory module, the highest density embedded flash memory developed to date, signalling the next generation of flash-based MP3 players and other portable devices. Samsung claims the...
Toshiba Corporation, one of the world's largest producers of flash memory chips, is expanding production of NAND flash memory chips faster than originally planned. Most of Toshiba's manufacturing line in its number-three chip factory can...