SanDisk ups capacity on flash memory cards
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com September 30, 2004, 11:11 AM PT. SanDisk announced Thursday increased capacities for several different flash memory cards. The Sunnyvale, Calif.
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com September 27, 2004, 2:20 PM PT. Toshiba on Monday announced in Japan that it&#39;s upping the song capacity of its Gigabeat line of hard drive-based digital audio players.
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SanDiskÂ® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) yesterday introduced the worldâs fastest flash memory cards - the SanDisk Extremeâ¢ III line of CompactFlash SDâ¢ and Memory Stick PROâ¢ digital film cards.
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Military disks: Get in da choppa! Flash storage specialist BitMicro has already jumped past the one terabyte marker with 1.6TB solid-state drives in a Fibre Channel flavor. This week, it's moving that capacity to its line of SCSI flash drives too.â¦
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- SanDisk Corp  said it signed a patent  cross-license agreement with PNY Technologies to settle patent  cases it filed against PNY regarding flash memory products.
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Pro-HG offers faster read, write speeds too Sony has turned to SanDisk to help it develop the next incarnation of its Memory Stick memory card format: the Memory Stick Pro HG. The Memory Stick Duo-sized card ups the maximum storage capacity to 32GB, though it may be some time before 32GB cards come to market.â¦
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SDHC-compatible SanDisk yesterday took the wraps off a 4GB Mini SD memory card based on the "high capacity" version of the technology. So far, card makers have prepared SDHC incarnations of regular-sized SD card, but this is the first we've seen to use the half-size form-factor.â¦
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Competing with the best in anything is a tall order, especially when that competitor is something of a cultural icon.  That's the spot that flash memory concern SanDisk (SNDK) finds itself in with its Sansa line of digital music players.
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Doubles density of its chips SanDisk is ready to begin mass-production of commercial flash memory using 43 nanometer process technology. Its latest shrinkage of chip features can double the density per chip compared to the previous 56nm process.â¦
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SanDisk Corp. , the world's top maker of flash memory storage cards, plans to more than double its global retail presence as demand for its products rises, its co-founder said on Wednesday.
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The 4GB SanDisk Memory Stick PRO will cost $799.99, while 2GB SanDisk SD Card will be $199.99. They will be available in November.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics is sampling a new type of flash memory device that could make it easier for makers of mobile phones and MP3 players to increase the storage capacity of their products. Samsung's moviNAND devices combine a NAND flash memory chip, an MMC (multimedia card) controller, and some firmware into a component that's small enough to be used in the latest portable electronics products, the company said. Samsung has started shipping samples of 1GB and 2GB moviNAND chips to manufacturers and will begin mass producing them later this month. It plans to introduce 512MB and 4GB capacities by the end of this year, it said. MoviNAND solves allows device makers to include a large amount of flash memory in their products while still using a standard serial interface, the company said. "The significance of the MMC interface is that the complexities of the native NAND interface and management are completely abstracted from the [portable device]," Samsung spokesman John Lucas said via e-mail. In addition, the MMC interface performance better than other standard interfaces because it has an 8-bit wide bus, allowing data to be processed at up to 52MB per second, he said. NAND flash has become popular for its ability to store large amounts of data at relatively low cost and to retain that data when devices are switched off. It's used in memory sticks, memory cards and digital music players such as Apple Computer's iPod. Other NAND makers include Toshiba, Hynix Semiconductor, and IM Flash Technologies. It's one of several recent flash memory advancements from Samsung. On Monday the South Korean companyÂ showed off a 32GB NAND flash memory chipÂ built using an advanced, 40-nanometer manufacturing process.
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SanDisk (SNDK) is losing money as it battles rivals who also want to sell flash memory, the digital data storage medium for devices like cameras or music players. The war for customers is pushing down prices in the market and it's tougher to turn a profit.
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While Compact Flash may have been the dominant removable memory format for years, SanDisk says the future is now in SDHC, announcing a 32GB card that will go on sale in April.
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Flash memory supplier SanDisk Corp is to cut 10% of its workforce, 250 jobs. It said NAND component pricing has dropped by 50% in the past two months due to excess supply coupled with first quarter seasonally weak demand.
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EDGE Tech Corp (www.edgetechcorp.com), a leading supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other experience-enhancing technology solutions, announces the SD Card + USB Flash Drive Combo.
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Long player Now that Apple's got its new, video-playing iPod Nano launched here comes SanDisk with an alternative it hopes will win over buyers with its sleeker lines and higher storage capacity.â¦