How 3D integration will reshape the memory industry
02 December, 2009 by Yole DéveloppementThe memory semiconductor industry is about to go through a period of major technological changes as new integration trends and disruptive packaging technologies pave the way to the future growth of this industry …
Portable hard drives
17 August, 2009 byIomega has released the eGo portable hard drive for Mac users, featuring multiple interface connections, an aluminium design, good ruggedness and a robust combination of software.
Memory microcontrollers
01 June, 2009 byRenesas has released the SH7216 group of 32-bit on-chip flash memory microcontrollers, the latest addition to the 32-bit SuperH RISC family.
Digital data buffering
17 April, 2009 byAverLogic Technologies has introduced its high-performance FIFO (first-in-first-out) field memory chips designed to buffer audio/video/graphic digital data for a wide range of applications.
Solid-state disks
17 April, 2009Sun Microsystems has introduced solid-state disks that will give users greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris Operating System, Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies.
Mobile SDRAMs
14 April, 2009 byIntegrated Silicon Solution has introduced the first members of its latest PowerSaver mobile SDRAM family with 128, 256 and 512 Mb mobile SDRAMs offered in x8, x16 and x32 configurations in TSOPII packages as well as BGA packages.
Memory cards
08 April, 2009 byLexar Media has further increased the capacity of its Platinum II flash memory card range with the Platinum II 60x 16 GB secure digital high-capacity (SDHC) card and an 80x 16 GB CompactFlash card.
Clear future for memory
02 April, 2009A group of scientists at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear — the first of its kind.
Making memory smaller
01 April, 2009The long-term trend that has persisted in the computer industry since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 has been for the hardware to become smaller and smaller. But scientists believe that conventional miniaturisation processes could soon reach their fundamental limits.
16 GB flash drive
01 April, 2009 byLexar Media has announced the hot red 16 GB capacity JumpDriveFirefly USB flash drive. It is PC and Mac compatible and comes in four different colours, each representing a different memory capacity.
European memory research
02 March, 2009To explore solutions to overcome the scaling limitations of conventional flash memory, IMEC, a European research organisation, has started research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells.
EEPROM modules
01 August, 2008Microchip has announced a series of serial presence detect EEPROM devices that support the latest double data rate 2 (DDR2) DIMM modules used in PCs, as well as future DDR3 DIMM modules.
Notebook memory
01 July, 2008Kingston Technology claims to be the first to offer high-performance, low-latency DDR2-667 SO-DIMM notebook memory.
Mac memory kits
01 July, 2008Kingston has released DDR2-800 fully buffered dual-inline memory (FB-DIMM) specifically designed and validated for Apple Mac Pro workstations and Xserve server systems.
What's at the end of the rainbow?
10 March, 2008British scientists have revealed a system called 'trapping rainbows' that may be able to slow down, stop and even capture light
