Micron, Intel speed up flash memory
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The partners develop flash technology that speeds data transfers by up to five times.
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Newest models use flash memory, have high still-image resolutions.
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A new type of memory could soon be available to device makers.
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Digital photographers rejoice; SanDisk announced this week 12-gigabyte and 16-gigabyte CompactFlash cards that fall under its Extreme III lineup. The new additions are the highest capacity memory cards on the market, offering a minimum read and write speed of 20MB per second.
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Clever 'perpendicular recording system' boosts storage capacity
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By Review, Idaho Business  Intel announced September 5 that it plans to lay off approximately 10,500 employees by the middle of 2007, reducing its workforce to 92,000.  Local microchip manufacturer Micron has a joint operating venture with Intel to produce flash memory.
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Samsung Electronics has begun shipping a flash memory-based solid state disk drive (SSD) that offers better performance than many of the flash drives currently available, the company said.The 64GB drive has a SATA II interface that can support data reading at speeds of 100MBps and writing at 80MBps. That makes it 60 percent faster than SATA I drives of the same type and two to five times faster than conventional hard-disk drives, according to Samsung.SSDs use flash memory rather than magnetic storage, which means faster reading and writing of data, lower power consumption and zero noise. They&#39;ve been around for several years although it is only recently, after flash memory chip prices fell, that they have become practical for use in laptop computers.The drives were announced back in November when Samsung started supply samples of the drives to PC makers. Commercial versions of the drive are now available and will be offered as options on some Dell and Alienware laptops in the coming weeks, said Samsung. Prices were not announced.Samsung is also planning to target the enterprise server market and other applications that demand high-speed data transfer.Despite their advantages over hard-disk drives, SSDs are only taking off slowly because they are much more expensive. To get around this problem Samsung showed a 128GB SSD based on MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash, at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It&#39;s a cheaper but not as powerful or efficient version of flash chip than the SLC (single level cell) used in most SSDs drives until now. The SLC-type memory chips last about 10 times as long as MLC chips.&#160;
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Analysis: Low flash memory prices could mean lower cost solid-state devices and bigger storage in gadgets.
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Data speeds could get a boost from Intel breakthrough into processors that make and manipulate light.
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com. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced a line of flash-memory cards that are smaller than a thumbnail, as the firm said it had defeated the nagging problem of high power consumption.
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Smaller, more efficient memory could double chip performance for gamers and multimedia use by 2008.
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Intel Corp., the world's largest  chip maker, updated its line of Centrino notebook computer  chips on Wednesday with higher speeds and improved multimedia  features, a move the company hopes will further propel one of  its fastest-growing businesses.
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One-inch Microdrive capacity will jump to up to 10GB.
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A new type of flash memory that will speed access to data stored on memory cards and mobile devices has received the support of several major phone and memory vendors.
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Micron, Intel developed a flash technology that speeds up data transfers by up to 5 times.
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The two companies have collaborated on a new NAND flash memory technology which is said to speed up data transfer rates fivefold.
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(InfoWorld) - Toshiba Corp. is expanding production of NAND flash memory chips faster than originally planned, the company said Monday. The company is one of the world's largest producers of flash memory chips, which are used in a wide range of consumer electronics products including digital still cameras, music players, cell phones and memory cards. At present most of Toshiba's production in its number-three chip factory is done on a manufacturing line that can make chips with features as small as 70 nanometers but in January the company began using a more advanced 56-nanometer production process. The 56-nanometer technology means chips can be made physically smaller so more fit on a wafer and made more efficient. This means the resulting chips are cheaper and use less power. Toshiba had planned to increase 56-nanometer production so it equalled half of the company's 135,000 wafer per month output by the end of this year but now Toshiba is planning to meet that point in September. The faster-than-anticipated switch to new production should make Toshiba's NAND flash more competitive on the global market. The Tokyo company also said it plans to re-equip its number-four chip fabrication facility to handle 56-nanometer production. The new building will have a clean-room production area about 40 percent bigger than the number-three factory.