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Nov 11
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SandForce Inc., a supplier of solid- state drive processors, has closed $21 million in series C funding.
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Flightglobal
Nov 10
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Portable in-flight entertainment specialist e.Digital has filed a US federal court lawsuit against Canon, Nokia, Panasonic, Samson Technologies and 15 other firms, alleging infringement of its flash memory technology patents.
EE Times
Nov 2
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The top three vendors of branded NAND flash memory increased their market share in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter, according to DRAMexchange, a market analysis company.
StreetInsider.com
Oct 27
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Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Silicon+Motion%27s+%28SIMO%29+Flash+Memory+Controllers+Ruled+Non-Infringing+by+US+ITC/5047137.html for the full story.
EE Times
Oct 20
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Micron Technology this week announced 34-nm NAND flash memory devices targeted at enterprise applications. The devices are said to offer significantly better endurance compared to standard NAND devices.
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Red Orbit
Oct 14
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for...
EE Times
Oct 13
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Flash memory card company SanDisk Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) has announced that it has started production shipments of memory cards based on the company's X4 flash memory technology. This technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, twice...
EE Times
Oct 12
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NAND Flash memory is the most competitive market in the semiconductor industry.
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The mass production of flash memory to power USB drives and Apple's iPod and iPhone has made this once-costly technology a good deal less expensive. This price drop has fueled speculation that flash memory, with advantages in speed and power consumption, could displace traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) in computers. Flash memory is also known as solid-state drive technology.
But will magnetic storage go extinct? Despite some predictions that within three or four years HDD will be a thing of the past, there remain doubts. It's still expensive today to replace laptop HDDs with flash--the difference could be as much as US $300 more per laptop--and HDD's demise has been predicted several times before, prematurely. One alternative route is that of coexistence--manufacturers have begun introducing hybrid drives that incorporate both flash and magnetic storage.
Who wins if flash memory replaces Hard Drives?
- Sandisk is the industry leader in flash memory technology, providing flash drives for Apple's iPods and a variety of other consumer electronics.
- Samsung also manufactures flash drives.
Who wins through HDD/magnetic storage?
- Seagate is the independent mainstay of HDD technology, its products appearing in an unparalleled across-the-board array--everything from Xboxs to rival PS3s to most laptops on the market.
- Western Digital is Seagate's only meaningful competition (beyond large "captive" companies like Toshiba and Hitachi, whose sales are many times larger than the independents').
- Nidec Corporation (Nihon Densan Kabushiki Kaisha) (NJ) is a HDD spindle motor manufacturer with a near monopoly, over 70% market share. Important supplier to Seagate and Western Digital but, because of dominance of their particular niche, see less pricing pressure.
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