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It’s what you do with the memory that counts. Case in point: the TI Stellaris...
NAND Flash wear leveling is an established error- and fault-management technique in SSDs, but Texas Instruments is touting on-chip Flash and EEPROM durability in a low-cost microcontroller: the TI...
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Using SSD controller technology as a differentiator: Kingston adds another...
Kingston E100 SSD Memory and SSD vendor Kingston Technology has just announced enterprise-class SSDs called the SSDNow E100 in capacities of 100, 200, and 400 Gbytes. What I find interesting about this...
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Future Memory: The MemCon Panel. What comes after NAND Flash and DRAM?
Just announced, there’s a pre-lunch panel at MemCon covering future memories. There are several new memory technologies that would usurp the thrones from DRAM and NAND Flash memory. Will any succeed?...
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IBM gets patent for hi-temp PCM (phase-change memory) cell structure
Tom’s Hardware is reporting that IBM recently obtained a patent on specially formulated phase-change memory (PCM) that will operate above 150°C. This is a significant achievement because PCM has a...
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Will the Apple iPhone 5 use PCM?
An investment site called Seeking Alpha has published a bit of strange forensic research that leads it to claim that the Apple iPhone 5 that will be announced tomorrow employs phase-change memory...
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Western Digital sampling 5mm, 2.5-inch, 500Gbyte hybrid HDD with NAND Flash
Western Digital just started shipping 7mm, 2.5-inch HDDs earlier this year and has now announced that it is sampling a 5mm, 2.5-inch, 500Gbyte hybrid HDD with integrated NAND Flash caching. The drive...
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IDT announces DDR4 register chip for DDR4 registered DIMMs and 3D die stacks
IDT has announced a small but essential component for the development of advanced DDR4 DIMMs: the 4RCD0124 DDR4 register. A device of this type is required for building DDR4 DIMMs to provide registered...
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Add OCZ to the growing list of SSD vendors differentiating their drives with...
SSD vendor OCZ has been showing its new top-of-the-line Vector 2.5-inch SSD at this week’s Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. During a conference call with analysts, OCZ CEO Ryan Peterson...
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The Economist covers PCM – must be something real
I was surprised to see an article about phase-change memory (PCM) appear early this month in the well-respected British magazine The Economist. “Altered states” provides a good, basic introduction to...
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Some great analysis on SSD wear leveling and power consumption
Some great analysis by Cullen Logan at Amazon.com appeared on LinkedIn over the weekend in response to my post “Are Enterprise SSDs a “bad” idea? Four tips and counter-tips for your consideration”: “To...
View ArticleIBM gets patent for hi-temp PCM – (phase-change-memory) structure
Tom’s Hardware is reporting that IBM recently obtained a patent on specially formulated phase-change memory (PCM) that will operate above 150°C. This is a significant achievement because PCM has a...
View ArticleWestern Digital Sampling 5mm, 2.5 inch, 500 Gbyte hybrid HDD with NAND Flash
Western Digital just started shipping 7mm, 2.5-inch HDDs earlier this year and has now announced that it is sampling a 5mm, 2.5-inch, 500Gbyte hybrid HDD with integrated NAND Flash caching. The drive...
View ArticleWill The Apple iPhone 5 Use PCM?
An investment site called Seeking Alpha has published a bit of strange forensic research that leads it to claim that the Apple iPhone 5 that will be announced tomorrow employs phase-change memory...
View ArticleIDT announces DDR4 register chip for DDR4 registered DDIMMs and 3D die stacks
IDT has announced a small but essential component for the development of advanced DDR4 DIMMs: the 4RCD0124 DDR4 register. A device of this type is required for building DDR4 DIMMs to provide registered...
View ArticleAdd OCZ to the growing list of SSD vendors differentiating their drives with...
SSD vendor OCZ has been showing its new top-of-the-line Vector 2.5-inch SSD at this week’s Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. During a conference call with analysts, OCZ CEO Ryan Peterson...
View ArticleThe Economist Covers PCM – must be something real
I was surprised to see an article about phase-change memory (PCM) appear early this month in the well-respected British magazine The Economist. “Altered states” provides a good, basic introduction to...
View ArticleSome great analysis on SSD wear leveling and power consumption
Some great analysis by Cullen Logan at Amazon.com appeared on LinkedIn over the weekend in response to my post “Are Enterprise SSDs a “bad” idea? Four tips and counter-tips for your consideration”: “To...
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