Samsung’s new consumer SSDs shoot to the top of the benchmark league


Over the past one year, Samsung has been working towards evolving the way it deals with the construction of its flash memory. It went from a horizontal to a vertical arrangement of cells, or what it...

Bringing Speed To Cloud Storage


SSDs are used in modern data centers in many ways.  This includes various high performance applications, caching, and increasingly as performance elements in a cloud storage architecture. ...

SanDisk Card Reflects Incredible Growth


This week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona SanDisk introduced a microSDXC card that provides a relatively incredible 128 gigabytes (GB) of storage.  SanDisk tells us that this is the...

Rambus’ Horowitz: Talks on the Semiconductor Industry’s Future


Attendees of the 60th annual International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) hosted by the IEEE got a real treat on Monday.  Rambus founder Mark Horowitz shared his studied view of the...

New Vistas For Persistent Memory


Flash memory has successfully penetrated many consumer and enterprise applications, enabling rugged high-performance products.  The data rates of flash memory have led to advances in the speeds...

New Flash Solutions To Enable All Flash Data Centers


Flash memory is finding its way into more storage systems, augmenting and sometimes replacing slower digital storage technology, such as hard disk drives.  As flash memory gets less expensive...

Samsung Starts Production of First 3D Vertical NAND Flash Memory


Samsung has announced today to start the volume production of the industry's first three-dimensional Vertical NAND flash memory of density 128 gigabit (16GB) per chip. What actually Taiwanese tech...

Toshiba Will Show off New Memory Card with TransferJet Wireless Transfer Technology at CES


Toshiba has announced that it will be on hand at CES 2013 early next month to show off a new reference SDHC memory card. The memory card has integrated TransferJet wireless transfer technology. The...

Samsung 16GB DDR4 Server Memory Modules coming


Using 30nm-class process technology, Samsung sampled new 8GB and 16GB DDR4 modules in June, in addition to providing them to major CPU and controller makers. The modules will bring the highest...