Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
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Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind. The Tokyo-based firm said the new chips will be able to support capturing 30 frames per second at full ...
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NetApp today unveiled upgraded FAS3220 and FAS3250 Fabric-Attached Storage arrays, improving their performance by up to 80% and more than doubling the storage capacity. The upgraded midrange FAS storage systems run v8.1.2 of NetApp's ...
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IDG News Service - Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the second quarter this year, and the market will deteriorate further in the coming quarters as ...
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it broke ground in China on a NAND flash memory chip factory in which it will invest a total of $7 billion, its single largest investment in the country. The factory will be located in Xi'an, China ...
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Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
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Intel today announced its third-generation, enterprise-class solid-state drive series (SSD) that adds 15 times the maximum sequential write performance and twice the read performance of its predecessor. The price for the new Intel ...
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Making good on the flash strategy it announced in August, Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled its first flash module, a 1.6TB SAS-interface flash card. Three months ago, HDS lifted the covers on its flash strategy saying that like EMC, it ...
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With the purchase of Elpida Memory, the third-largest DRAM maker, Micron Technology not only becomes a Tier 1 supplier, but also catapults itself into the mobile space as a supplier to leading smartphone and tablet makers, including Apple. ...
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Micron Technology announced today that it will acquire struggling Elpida Memory, the third largest producer of DRAM memory, for $750 million and will also take over $1.75 billion in Elpida's debt. Tokyo-based Elpida filed for bankruptcy ...
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PC World - This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that's taking place in personal computing. Delivering significant ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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In a paper set to be published this week in the scientific journal Nature, IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use of memory and storage ...
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Computerworld - Western Digital on Monday announced what it said is the industry's thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks, a 5mm-thick model with 500GB of storage capacity. The drives, equivalent to about one-fifth of an inch thick with a ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it is developing a line of products for storing large amounts of data, based on its flash memory chips. The company is working on a three-tier strategy to spur in-house demand for NAND flash memory, of which it is ...
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