Announcement Highlights Leveraging its Latest Process Technology for NAND and DRAM, Micron Introduces the Industry’s most Advanced multi-chip Packages (MCP) for Smart Phones, Personal Media Players, and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) Micron’s Packaged Monolithic 4 gigabit (Gb) NAND and 2Gb low-power DDR (LPDDR) Die Provide Improved Cost, Power and System Optimization
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Announcement Highlights Micron Introduces the Industry’s Highest Endurance, Highest Capacity multi-level Cell (MLC) and single-level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory Designed Specifically for Enterprise Applications the Company is Leveraging its Mature 34-nanometer (nm) Process to Provide Customers with a 6x Improvement in Endurance for MLC NAND and a 3x Improvement in Endurance for SLC [...]

Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE:MU) today announced that Semiconductor Insights has selected two of Micron’s industry-leading DRAM and NAND innovations as the winners in its Eighth Annual Insight Awards program. Micron’s 32-gigabit (Gb) 34-nanometer (nm) NAND flash won the Most Innovative Process Technology award and its 1Gb 50nm DDR2 won the Most Innovative DRAM Technology award. [...]

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces it is now distributing Toshiba’s eMMC Embedded MLC NAND and SLC NAND discrete products to customers in North America.
Toshiba’s embedded eMMC storage products incorporate cost-effective, high-density Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND technology and an integrated controller to manage the NAND functions, enabling [...]

Crucial.com Expands Online Resources with Introduction of crucial.com/fr
Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced the launch of its dedicated French language website, www.crucial.com/fr. The new site is the only manufacturer-direct source for memory upgrades available to French consumers. A full selection of memory products, including DRAM memory [...]

International Solid State Circuits Conference
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced breakthroughs in multi-bit-per-cell technology for NAND flash memories that will bring advances in chip densities and cost savings to next generation devices. In the 32 nanometer (nm) generation, Toshiba has realized a 3-bit-per-cell 32 gigabit (Gb) chip with the world-smallest die size, and smaller than a [...]

– Company to Cut Total Production by Some 30% —
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced an adjustment to production of NAND flash memory at its Yokkaichi Operations plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The adjustment will cut production by approximately 30%, effective from January 2009.
Recession in the global economy and the slowdown in consumer spending [...]

Collaboration to Drive Unprecedented Levels of SSD Performance, Reliability and Data Integrity
Intel Corporation (Intel) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced plans to jointly develop and deliver Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) enterprise class solid-state drives (SSDs) for servers, workstations and storage systems.
The combination of a leading Enterprise drive supplier [...]

Fusion-io Announces Its First Consumer Product at E for All
Fusion-io, a leading provider of solid state technology and high-performance I/O solutions, unveiled its first consumer product, the ioXtreme, at the E for All conference and expo. The ioXtreme brings high-end PC users 80 GB of PCI-Express-based, high-performance, solid state storage that was designed [...]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that it has collaborated with Sun Microsystems to develop a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives that offers much higher endurance levels than any other flash memory device on the market today.
Offering a five-fold increase in [...]