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Washington Considers Sucker Punch to Asian Memory Chip Makers in Bid for Dominance

A report Monday said the U.S. is considering limiting availability of chipmaking equipment to Asia just after it approved $52 billion for semiconductors.

3D NAND Chips Are Going to Make High-Capacity SSDs a Reality

SSDs are wonderful things that massively speed up your computer and they’re getting cheaper too. But currently they don’t offer the capacity that some users demand. Fortunately, that could all be about to change. https://gizmodo.com/ssds-cost-half-as-much-as-they-did-in-2011-so-its-time-5920453 Extreme Tech reports that a company called Applied Materials has announced that a new etching system will allow it to…

Apple Spending Tons of Cash on Israeli Super Memory

Israeli financial paper Calcalist reports Apple has thrown down some serious stacks to acquire Anobit, a flash memory firm. But the purported $400-500 million (!) buyout isn’t just for any memory firm—Anobit says its memory’s faster and cheaper. Anobit makes NAND memory, which is used in things like flash drives and—more importantly here—solid state drives…

128Gb NAND Chips Promise SD Cards with Terabytes of Storage

Cell phones have taken another step towards becoming full-fledged pocket computers with an announcement by Micron and Intel. Get ready to carry even more of your digital life on your phone. The 128Gb NAND device, a world’s first, is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the memory and chip manufacturers. It uses MLC technology…

Rumor: Updated MacBook Airs Will Be Extra-Speedy With 400Mbps NAND Flash Storage

It’s expected that Apple will update the MacBook Air line this July, but with what, exactly? According to components manufacturers that the Japanese website Macotakara.jp spoke to, they’ll include the latest 19-nanometer NAND chips which have been soldered right onto the motherboard, as opposed to using an mSATA connector to fuse the SSD to the…

A Brief 0.07-Second Power Outage at a Factory Can Cause a 20% Drop In Chip Shipments

A very, very brief power outage at a Toshiba factory forced the company to completely halt operations at the critical plant. This could mean as much as a 20% drop in chip shipments which could lead to product shortages everywhere. First, how the hell can a split second power outage do so much damage to…

Flash Memory May Be 10,000 Times Faster In Just Three Years

Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It’s fast! But ReRAM—a joint project of Sharp and Elipa—promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialize it by 2013. What’s that mean for you? For starters, tablets and phones that can download a full HD movie in a matter of seconds. But…

Imagine Toshiba’s 128GB NAND Flash Memory In Your Next Phone

They invented flash memory, so it’s only fitting that Toshiba has now produced another world first for NAND memory: the first with 128GB of capacity. Just think what media you could store on your phone with that module. It squishes 16 64Gb of NAND chips together, and should be shipping out to manufacturers this September.…

Samsung’s 64GB Chip Means Serious Storage for iPhones and PMPs

Samsung’s new 64GB flash NAND and 32GB microSD card may be the first of each to market, bringing lots more storage space to phones like the iPhone, Droid and Nexus One as well as other handheld devices. Big win! We don’t have specific information on either of the products (no pricing, availability, or speed) but…

Toshiba Develops 64GB NAND Chip, Just In Time For a 64GB iPhone 3GS?

Pay attention, Appleites—this isn’t just any old boring chip news. With Toshiba supplying the 16GB and 32GB NAND chips for the iPhone 3GS, the fact that it’s just announced the world’s first 64GB NAND chip is very suggestive. Could a 64GB iPhone 3GS be on the cards? Or even a 128GB iPod Touch? Toshiba will…

JMicron NAND Flash Controller Could Slash SSD Prices By 50%

JMicron is preparing to debut its new NAND flash controller at Computex, and with it the company intends to boast it can slash SSD pricing by 50% in time for the holiday season. Officially labeled the JMF612, the chip is targeted at a “new generation of NAND flash chips built using smaller process geometries that…

Samsung Ships First 32GB moviNAND Chips (Translation: More Storage In Your Pocket, Sooner)

They’re not the first major manufacturer to ship 32-gigabit NAND chips, nor are they the first to sell 32-gigabyte embedded cards. But they are the biggest, which means this step could have huge, fantastic consequences. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-flash-chips-doubled-to-32gb-good-for-pmps-cel-5034627 Papa Samsung does have a legitimate FIRST!! claim here, in that these moviNAND cards are the only ones to…

Toshiba Flash Chips Doubled to 32GB, Good for PMPs, Cellphones

Toshiba has announced it’s beefing-up its line of NAND flash storage chips to 32GB sizes. The new package combines eight 4GB 43-nanometer chips into one—double the previous generation’s capacity—and is specifically aimed at the portable device market. Since it can be dropped into existing slots, manufacturers have to make no specific changes to accommodate the…

Ultrafast NAND Memory Reads 200MB per Second

Micron and Intel have co-developed a new 8-gigabit SLC NAND chip, which has data-read speeds of 200 MB/second and write speeds of 100 MB/second: five times faster than previous SLC NANDs. The 50nm-process node devices are available as samples to OEMs now, with bulk manufacturing planned for late this year. This means that sometime soon…

Micron unveils RealSSD Solid State Drives in 32GB, 64GB Flavors

Micron announced today that they will be releasing the RealSSD line of solid state drives, including a 64GB drive. While the entire line ranges from 1GB to 64GB, the 32 and 64 GB models are geared toward notebook and desktop use. The drives feature a SATA II interface and draw a mere 2 watts of…

Seagate Momentus Laptop Hard Drives Have 256MB On-Board Flash

Seagate’s latest Momentus notebook hard drives feature 256MB of flash memory and come in sizes of 80, 120 and 160GB. The point of the on-board NAND flash? To speed up performance by caching frequently used data in the NAND instead of reaching onto the hard drive every time. By storing boot information in there, it…

Hard to believe, but Reuters claims that one day of blackouts at a couple of Samsung factories will cost them around $54 million and could cause shortages in memory. BTW, Samsung makes nano and iPhone memory. [Reuters]

Samsung Starts 16Gb Flash NAND Mass Production

The giganormous industrial machine and secret inter-dimensional empire, also known as Samsung, has started mass-producing 16Gb chips. These are the biggest flash NAND memories ever, just in time to feed that Godzilla monster that lives in Cupertino. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-releases-8gb-movinand-prepares-chip-to-control-243401 According to Samsung, the 51-nanometer wonder supports 30MB/s transfer rates and 4-bit error-correcting code. They will offer…

Sony VAIO Type G: Another 12.1″ Sub-notebook with 32GB Flash Drive That Doesn’t Come from Cupertino

For those who think that June will never come, can’t wait to get a sexy subnotebook with flash storage even if it doesn’t come with Mac OS X and live in Japan, here’s the new Sony VAIO Type G: a 12.1-inch notebook that not only comes under the 2 pounds mark (1.97 or 898 grams)…

Transcend 16GB Express Card: Fabulousness Comes at a Price

Transcend has a new 16GB Solid State Drive in Express Card form. It will do wonders for boosting your notebook’s hard drive capacity on the road while wreaking havoc in your credit card at the same time: There’s no official US price yet, but it is $1,337 in Europe, which actually is not that 1337.…