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Micron and Intel unveil world’s first 128Gb NAND device

Shane McGlaun, Dec 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

Micron and Intel have announced the results of something that the two have been working on together. The result is the unveil of the world's first 128Gb NAND device. The NAND device is small and aimed at small form factor devices like tablets, smartphones, SSDs, and more. The have also announced the mass production of the 64Gb 20nm NAND. Read The Full Story

SanDisk outs 19nm flash memory monolithic chip

Shane McGlaun, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [1]

Up to a point, we all want our smartphones and other gadgets to be as small as possible. At some point, things can get to small with screens that are too tiny to be readable and enjoyed on the go. Before our gear can get smaller than it is, today we will need the components inside the devices that actually make them work to get smaller too. One of the components inside your device that needs to shrink is the flash memory. Read The Full Story

Toshiba SmartNAND debuts, destined for future iPhones?

Shane McGlaun, Apr 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

The crazy cats over at Toshiba have announced a new line of flash NAND today called SmartNAND. This stuff promises robust error management, a simple design, and faster time to market for advanced NAND for customer applications. The NAND is part of Toshiba's 24nm NAND family and is sure to find its way into all manner of consumer electronics products. Read The Full Story

Seagate Unveils Pulsar Line of Enterprise-Grade SSDs

Samia Perkins, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

Seagate Technology has just revealed a new lineup of performance-optimized solid-state drives (SSDs) for enterprise customers. The Pulsar.2 and the Pulsar XT.2 drives will use Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s interface. According to Seagate, the Pulsar.2 can "automatically detect and correct a multitude of data errors than can occur during normal drive operations to deliver the highest levels of enterprise-class data integrity and endurance." Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: December 31 2010

Chris Burns, Jan 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

Happy New Year! What a final day it's been here on the R3 Network! Philip Berne whips up a column with what must be one of my favorite column titles of 2010: The Cat’s In the Cradle and the PS3. Rally with us as we try to click Google into fixing the Android SMS bug. Android Community wishes you a Happy New Year with a fun little story about streaming the Times Square ball drop, and finally, BEHOLD as Chris Davies does an epic final post of the year: SlashGear’s 2010 Wrap-Up! All this and MORE on The Daily Slash - HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US HERE ON THE R3 NETWORK! Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: December 31 2010

Chris Burns, Dec 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

Last day of the year! What a year it was! In the morning of this last day of the epic year 2010, our first news story comes from the hacker world, where a brand new BitTorrent-based DDoS tool is introduced as "Lying to the Neighbours." Next, Apple files for a patent on screen-off gesture controls on the iPod Nano, AliveECG connects to your iPhone to keep track of heart, and you can now feel free to load Android onto your HTC HD2 (WinMo 6.5) via a brand new NAND level hack. Hackers of /b/ have to watch their back as FBI raids ISPs looking for servers used in Anonymous DDoS attacks. An RR Auction lets loose large bits of US Outer-Space history while NASA finds more cracks in Discovery fuel tanks but keeps launch on track. On a smaller scale, grab yourself a MeeGo 1.1 install on your HTC HD2. Fun! All this and MORE on SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up! Read The Full Story

LG Optimus 7 uses NAND flash for storage

Shane McGlaun, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

If Windows Phone 7 has caught your attention, you are probably aware that several of the devices on the market use microSD cards for storage, though those cards are tucked away deep inside the devices where the user can’t get to it. The downside to using the microSD card rather than traditional NAND flash is that the performance suffers. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Samsung 256GB SSD 470 Series Review

Ewdison Then, Nov 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

It’s not often you find an internal drive where the manufacturer has given obvious thought to aesthetics, but Samsung’s new 256GB 470 Series SSD bucks the trend. From its Apple-style packaging to its distinctive casing, the SSD certainly stands out from the crowd. Has Samsung spent too much time on unnecessary design and not enough on performance, though? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Samsung and Toshiba support standardized NAND spec for fast DDR memory

Shane McGlaun, Jul 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung and Toshiba are both putting their weight behind a new standardized NAND specifications for high performance applications. The new NAND toggle DDR 2.0 specification will be for a DDR flash memory with a 400 Mbps interface. Toshiba announced earlier this month that it was starting a joint venture with SanDisk in a new NAND flash production facility. Read The Full Story

Samsung in production with new 20nm NAND flash for memory cards

Shane McGlaun, Apr 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung and other makers of NAND flash for storage devices are always looking to go to smaller build processes. The smaller the process the more memory they can produce and the lower prices can be. Samsung has announced that it is producing the first 20nm NAND flash memory in the industry. Read The Full Story

Samsung 32GB microSD and 64GB embedded module announced

Chris Davies, Jan 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Faster smartphones and other mobile devices are great, but if your storage can't keep up - either in speed or capacity - then you're not getting the best from your shiny new gadget. With that mindset, Samsung have just announced a couple of storage products for mobile devices that are based on their new, 30nm-class high density NAND flash: a 64GB moviNAND embedded memory module and a 32GB microSD card. Read The Full Story

Samsung in production with 30nm 3-bit MLC NAND Chips

Shane McGlaun, Dec 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

Like most things in the computer and technology industry, the smaller the scale NAND chips are built on the less power and more performance the chips offer. Samsung has announced that it has become the industry's first company to go into production with 30nm, 3-bit, MLC NAND chips. Read The Full Story