Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed. The company said ...
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Micron Technology today introduced the industry's densest 128Gbit NAND flash memory device utilizing its 20-nanometer (nm) process technology and packing three bits of data per cell into the chip. Three-bit flash technology is referred to ...
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Buffalo Technology has set the end of February as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what, Buffalo says, is the world’s fastest transfer speed. The company ...
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Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., today announced that it began shipping samples of its 64-gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module equipped with a Universal Flash Storage (UFS) interface. The first ...
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) said today that they have found a way to use high-frequency sound waves to improve magnetic data storage techniques. The breakthrough could allow greater amounts of data to be stored on both ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which it said can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing systems. ...
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Toshiba has started shipping the first NAND flash chips to support Universal Flash Storage, a new standard that is 50% faster than current technology. The company said Friday that it began shipping samples in January of a 64GB chip that ...
Micron Technology has introduced its smallest 128Gbit NAND flash memory fabbed on a 20nm process. The memory device uses a triple-level-cell (TLC) design which stores three bits of information per cell. This means the device is ...
Eight IC product types will grow more than the market this year, says IC Insights, eleven product types will grow less than the market and ten product types will decline. Top of the pops are tablet MPUs and cellphone application MPUs ...
The European semiconductor distribution market followed a strange but foreseeable route in 2012, reports DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists). After a record H1 2011, H1 2012 was ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which, the firm said, can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing ...
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IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
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Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
Microsoft's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
Tags: Computer-on-Modules, processors, data-intensive applications