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South Korean NAND Memory Exports Rise Amidst Chip Gloom
Dominant memory maker South Korea sees rise in NAND flash memory exports in sign worldwide chip slump may be nearing an end
Semiconductor Revenue To Decline In 2023, Gartner Warns
Gartner forecasts global semiconductor revenue to decline 11.2 percent in 2023, amid economic uncertainties and weakening demand
Samsung ‘Increasing Capacity’ At Biggest Chip Plant
Samsung Electronics plans to increase production capacity at its biggest semiconductor plant next year, as competitors reduce investments
Western Digital ‘In Talks’ To Buy Kioxia In $20bn NAND Deal
Western Digital could face hurdles to its reported $20bn offer for Kioxia, which could restructure NAND memory market and create Samsung rival
Intel Sells NAND Business To SK Hynix For $9 Billion
Acquisition of Intel's NAND business division makes SK Hynix the second largest NAND flash manufacturer in the world after Samsung
Samsung Starts Mass Production Of 512GB Flash Chip
That is a lot of photos. Samsung begins mass production of 512GB storage chip for mobile devices
Samsung Electronics Chip Unit Set To Dethrone Intel Amidst Record Growth
Profits were led by strong demand for smartphone and server memory, while Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note 8 boosted handset growth
Toshiba Sells NAND Chip Unit For £13.5bn
Despite ongoing legal tussle with Western Digital, Toshiba is to sell its NAND chip unit for some much needed capital
Intel Launches Line Of Super-Fast Optane SSD Cards
The Optane memory technology is significantly faster than NAND flash, with features aimed to please cloud operators
Dell Rolls Out All-Flash Array Cost Cutting Technology
Dell's TLC 3D NAND flash deployment with Samsung latest punch in flash war
Quiz Of The Week: Flash Storage
The Flash memory market is growing by the minute. What do you know about this important technology?
Samsung Reveals First V-NAND SSD For Enterprises
Samsung unveils its first solid state drive (SSD) products based on its 3D V-NAND technology
Seagate: Hybrid Drives Don’t Need More Than 8GB Of NAND
In the future, all hard drives could feature a chunk of Flash memory
Samsung Begins Mass Production Of 3D V-NAND Flash
Samsung has begun the mass production of the first 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory chips
EMC World: EMC Teases Flash Fanatics With ‘Project X’
EMC's Project X isn't a defined thing yet, but it looks certain to be an all-flash array that will arrive in beta form later this year
Samsung To Build £4.4 Billion NAND Chip Plant In China
The company will produce silicon to cater for China’s growing domestic market
Fusion-io CEO: Storage Heading For Commoditisation
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn talks to us about how the storage industry is heading for commoditisation because of flash at the server
Apple Will Have Enough Retina Display Screens To Satisfy Demand
Apple's new iPad does not appear to face supply issues for its Retina Display despite current tablet stocks being sold out worldwide
EMC Targets Servers With PCIe NAND Flash Card
EMC has launched a PCIe NAND flash card that is actively targeting high-transaction servers
Nimbus Data Launches Big-Scale, Low-Power Solid State Storage System
The E-Class system can support up to 500TB of capacity while consuming only five watts of electricity per terabyte
PCIe Virtualisation Boosted As Micron Aquires Virtensys
Micron's aquisition of Virtensys enables data centres to share local storage across multiple servers with more efficient virtualisation of NAND flash storage.
Fusion-io Claims Ability To Process World Debt
Fusion-io showed how its solid state drives could handle a world of credit card transactions on a single server
Violin Memory Introduces First All-Silicon Enterprise Storage
Violin Memory says its new arrays are built for Tier 1 workloads in a 3U SAN-attached platform
Samsung Ramps Up Tablet Storage To 512GB
The maximum capacity of Samsung's new solid state drive will provide giant gains for tablet memory
Enterprise SSD Keeps Hitachi In The Race
Ultrastar high-endurance NAND flash solid state drives serve as Tier 0 layer for high-transaction applications
Flash Optimisation Software Marks FlashSoft Debut
FlashSoft SE makes flash disks more cost-effective by creating a server-tier, read-write cache
Intel And Micron Flash Memory Gets Even Smaller
Latest 8GB chip brings high capacity to smallest-yet form factor for tablets, smartphones and other devices
Woz Watches Over Fusion-io’s UK SQL Coding Battle
Steve Wozniak was the big draw as SQL programmers met in Brighton to vie for Fusion's Golden Plunger Award
Western Digital’s Hitachi Storage Buy Is A Gamble
Western Digital will soon own half of the world's HDD market. But why take a risk on a waning technology, asks Chris Preimesberger