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Friday 26 March 2010
Intel, Kingston make headways with low-priced SSDs
Kingston Technology's shipments of low-priced solid-state drives (SSD) have nearly reached 30,000 units so far this month, according to industry sources. Along with Intel's push of...
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Toshiba steps up NAND competition against Samsung
Toshiba is looking to seize the number-one position in the global NAND flash market from Samsung Electronics, through expanding its capacity to fill an anticipated gap between supply...
Thursday 18 March 2010
Tablet, low-capacity SSD seen as boost to NAND flash market
The market for NAND flash memory, which is mainly used to store data in mobile handsets, portable music players and other consumer electronic devices, will likely be ignited by demand...
Friday 5 March 2010
Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers
The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers.
Friday 5 March 2010
Taiwan market: Sony launches new ultra-thin notebooks
Sony has launched two new Z- and Y-series notebooks in the Taiwan market, with the Z-series targeting the high-end business segment and the Y-series for the ultra-thin segment.
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Kingston posts revenue growth in 2009 on better DRAM and flash pricing
Kingston Technology has announced revenues increased US$100 million to US$4.1 billion in 2009, its second-highest record. The memory-module house attributed the revenue growth to...
Friday 5 February 2010
Silicon Motion set to deliver controllers for 20nm NAND flash
Silicon Motion Technology has seen the majority of controller chips it is shipping are for 40nm and 30nm NAND flash, according to company president and CEO Wallace Kou. The NAND flash...
Monday 25 January 2010
SSD market to grow at 54% CAGR by 2013, says IDC
Global solid state drive (SSD) shipments grew 14% to surpass 11 million units in 2009, according to IDC. Looking forward, the research firm said SSD adoption will continue to experience...
Monday 18 January 2010
Taiwan-based PLDS cooperates with Plextor to offer SSDs
Taiwan-based Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS), a joint venture of Royal Philips Electronics and Taiwan-based optical disc drive maker Lite-On IT, has cooperated with...
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Memory controller maker JMicron eyes 100 million in 2010 shipments
JMicron Technology expects its overall controller IC shipments to surpass 100 million units in 2010, from around 70 million shipped in 2009. The memory controller IC specialist said...
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Phison to pay US$50 million in advance for NAND flash chips
Phison Electronics, which mainly designs and makes controllers for NAND flash memory integrated into products such as USB flash drives and memory cards, has announced it will make...
Thursday 31 December 2009
Kingston sees smartphones drive NAND flash growth in 2010
Smartphones will be key to spur demand for NAND flash in 2010, and will consume more chips than solid state drives (SSDs), according to David Sun, co-founder of Kingston Technology...
Wednesday 23 December 2009
InnoDisk intros 2TB PCIe SSD
Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which in-house develops and produces flash storage devices for industrial applications and embedded systems, has launched a PCI Express-based solid state drive...
Thursday 3 December 2009
Micron sampling 6Gbps SATA SSD
Micron Technology has introduced what it claims is the industry's fastest solid-state drive (SSD) for notebook and desktop PCs. The new RealSSD C300 drive is the first to leverage...
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Ramp-up of 20nm nodes may accelerate SSD adoption in PCs in 2011
NAND flash prices will be driven down significantly in 2011, when major chip suppliers progress to 20nm-class processes, according to industry players and observers from Taiwan and...