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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hynix has smoothly produced NAND flash based on 41nm and 48nm processes with supply volumes in the second half of 2009 to double those in the first half, according to sources at Taiwan-based...
Global Unichip has announced the mass-production of its ARM7-based GP5080 series SSD SoC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the booming market of netbooks/smartbooks,...
G.Skill International Enterprise, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of memory modules and solid state storage (SSD) devices, has released low-voltage DDR3 modules for Intel's Lynnfield...
Toshiba is estimated to have grabbed a 13.2% share of the global hard disk drive (HDD) market following its takeover of Fujitsu's hard drive operations, according to industry sourc...
Micron Technology has announced a new line of NAND products - both multi-level cell (MLC) and single-level cell (SLC) - designed specifically for enterprise applications. By leveraging...
Solid State System (3S) has secured orders for memory card controllers from Kingston Technology, expecting the new orders to be its major growth driver in 2010, according to the co...
Although sales of solid-state drives (SSDs) for notebooks have suffered a major setback in 2009, the enterprise market is more than compensating for the lack of growth causing overall...
