The company's Q3 2012 consolidated revenue registered 6% increase, compared to Q2 2011 Chipmaker SK Hynix posted a marginal profit for third quarter 2012 ended 30 September 2012. The South Korea-based company's consolidated third ...
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To handle oversupply of NAND flash memory in the retail market Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said it will cut production of its flash memory chips, used to store data in mobile gadgets, by around 30% to adjust excess inventory ...
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New facility is largest abroad investment on a semiconductor facility South Korean technology giant Samsung has begun the construction of $7bn memory chips manufacturing facility in North Western China's Xi'an region. Being ...
New plant will be commissioned in 2013 Toshiba has revealed plans to set up a new NAND chip plant in Japan by early this summer. The Japanese multinational electronics giant expects that the new flash memory plant will help meet ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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Everspin Technologies today announced what it is calling the industry's first Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive RAM(ST-MRAM)chip,which offers an alternative to non-volatile DRAM sub systems. Everspin said the new memory type is not targeted to ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said Sunday its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today,Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive,which combines the high performance of NAND flash memory with the storage capacity of a hard disk drive(HDD). The Fusion Drive will be ...
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Flash-based solid-state devices(SSDs)are making headway in the datacentre,especially for read-intensive applications requiring high performance,but will continue to take second place for write-intensive applications,including many"big ...
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On a three-month average basis,North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.12 billion in orders worldwide and a book-to-bill(B/B)ratio of 0.84 in August 2012,the new low so far this year. SEMI(Semiconductor ...
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,visiting Australia in his capacity as chief scientist for enterprise storage vendor Fusion-IO,has said that disk-based storage has had its day and that solid state storage is becoming"the de facto standard". ...
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Six weeks after Toshiba announced it was cutting production of NAND flash by 30%(on July 24th),and five weeks after Samsung and Hynix said they would cut flash production by 10%(on Aug 7th),OCZ Technology,which makes SSDs,says it can't get ...
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PC World - There seems to be no end in sight to the march of the tiny, sub-$100 Linux PCs arriving on the market this year, and recently two more contenders were added to the mix. It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about the Oval ...
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QLogic announced a new technology project called Mt.Rainier,which combines its I/O adapter cards with industry standard NAND flash storage to bring server-based SSD caching performance to the SAN. The Mt.Rainier host bus adapter card will ...
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