Spansion Sues Samsung (Reads:917, Saved 0 Time(s)) Spansion has filed suit against Samsung for patent violation, and has asked for injunctions to prohibit key Samsung customers from selling systems that incorporate Samsung NAND chips into the US....
Micron to Buy Out Qimonda's Share of Inotera (Reads:930, Saved 0 Time(s)) Micron has agreed to acquire Qimonda's share of their Inotera JV fab. This will help Qimonda's frail cash position while giving Micron a world-class DRAM fab for a bargain price....
SSDs: A Tale of (Another) Two Conferences (Reads:884, Saved 0 Time(s)) SSDs were a big factor in two conferences: The IDEMA DiskCon and the SNIA Storage Developers' Conference (SDC). These show that NAND flash is being rapidly embraced by system designers but that the way it is to be used is still uncertain....
Enterprise SSDs All the Rage at Multiple Conferences (Reads:859, Saved 0 Time(s)) The Flash Memory Summit and Intel's IDF both featured enterprise SSDs in a big way. Soon after these consecutive conferences IBM announced a million-IOPS system based on Fusion-io SSDs....
Samsung Goes Public With SanDisk Offer (Reads:874, Saved 0 Time(s)) After months of rumors, Samsung announced its offer to acquire SanDisk directly from shareholders....
SSDs Key at Simultaneous Conferences (Reads:830, Saved 0 Time(s)) SSDs played a big role in two simultaneous conferences: Denali Memcon and the SNIA Summer Symposium. Why? Because this technology is ready now at a price that is attractive....
Sun Introduces Fast, Green SSD Product Line (Reads:766, Saved 0 Time(s)) Sun finds that SSDs improve system scalability, helping to contain server sprawl and reduce power, space, and cooling requirements....
Intel & Micron Skip 40nm NAND Process - Jump to 34nm (Reads:730, Saved 0 Time(s)) Intel & Micron, in their IMFT NAND Joint Venture, have decided to skip implementation of the 4xnm process node and move directly from 52nm to 34nm. This puts a big squeeze on their competition....
A Rugged Test for Drives (Reads:731, Saved 0 Time(s)) Paint Shakers have been used to demonstrate how rugged SSDs are, but only one year ago, these same paint shakers were used to show how rugged "Ruggedized" HDDs are....
Seagate Fires First Volley at STEC (Reads:707, Saved 0 Time(s)) Seagate filed its first patent suit against an SSD maker, going after a relatively small supplier: STEC. This could cause difficulty for smaller SSD makers, but in the long run it is unlikely to have much of an impact on SSD buyers....
Rumor Mill Indicates SSDs Closely Watched (Reads:730, Saved 0 Time(s)) Rumors of SSD failures in the field may have been overblown, but tales of user dissatisfaction with SSD performance are easy to believe....
Managing Size, Heat, and Noise (Reads:739, Saved 0 Time(s)) Liquid cooling for CPUs becomes affordable, offering new possibilities in PC and server design....
BiTMICRO's New 1TB+ E-Disk Altima Ultra320 (Reads:870, Saved 0 Time(s)) BiTMICRO introduces industry's first terabyte-class flash SSD in an industry-standard 3.5" form factor....
SSDs in Notbooks - Still Hard to Justify, But Advantages are Improving (Reads:749, Saved 0 Time(s)) The benefits SSDs bring to notebook PCs are relatively minor, while their price as an option is substantial. Until this disparity is resolved, expect SSDs to remain a rarity in the PC....
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