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EE Times
Jan 19
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The flash memory, DRAM and optoelectronics (LEDs) sectors will fare best in 2010 as worldwide semiconductor revenue advances 15 percent to $257 billion, according to market research firm Databeans Inc. (Reno, Nevada).
EE Times
Jan 8
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Flash memory maker Spansion Inc. has moved to resolve its $1 billion dispute with its Japan unit.
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Globe Newswire
Jan 6
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, at the Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas, the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Working Group, the organization dedicated to simplifying integration of NAND Flash memory into consumer
Globe Newswire
Jan 5
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Key Messages: Crucial(R) RealSSD(TM) C300 drive is fastest SSD available to end consumers Supports the high-speed SATA 6Gb/s interface, enabling read speeds up to 355MB/s Provides users with the fastest storage drive read/write speeds Leverages
EE Times
Dec 30
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South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has closed a three-year investigation of NAND flash memory chip makers, saying it found no evidence that they were engaged in international price fixing, according to reports.
Cellular News
Dec 17
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Amid a strong performance in the global NAND flash memory market in the third quarter, no supplier did better than Japan's Toshiba Corp., whose revenue surged by nearly 50 percent during the period, according to iSuppli Corp.
EE Times
Dec 15
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Toshiba Corp. has a launched a 64-Gbyte NAND flash memory module that complies with the e-MMC standard.
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EE Times
Dec 10
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Fusion-io Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah), a vendor of high bandwidth solid-state drives based on NAND flash memory, has said that its ioMemory technology will be used in IBM's family of System X servers.
EE Times
Dec 8
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The world's biggest hard disk drive maker is jumping into the crowded market for solid-state drives as Seagate Technology is shipping Pulsar a 200 GByte, 2.5-inch flash drive aimed at servers.
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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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