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Micron touts industry's smallest 128Gb NAND flash chip

Micron touts industry
  • Posted February 15, 2013, 9:50 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Micron Technology has announced what it claims is the industry's densest 128Gbit NAND flash memory device. With die area of only 146 square millimeters, the chip is made using a 20nm fabrication process and is based on triple-level-cell flash technology.

Carnegie Mellon asks court to triple Marvell's $1.17 billion fine

Carnegie Mellon asks court to triple Marvell
  • Posted February 13, 2013, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • Carnegie Mellon University has asked a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania court to triple the $1.17 billion patent infringement fine levied against Marvell in December -- an outcome that would dwarf the record-setting $1.05 billion ruling in last August's Apple versus Samsung case. CMU, which...

7Gbps wireless on the way, WiGig (802.11ad) adopted by IEEE

7Gbps wireless on the way, WiGig (802.11ad) adopted by IEEE
  • Posted January 15, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • A new wireless standard promising blazing speeds over short distances was recently adopted by the IEEE. Known as 802.11ad. The ratified standard will deliver 7Gbps speeds over 60GHz frequencies and should appear in consumer electronics as soon as next year.…

Marvell invests in Memoright to supply firmware for solid state drives

Marvell invests in Memoright to supply firmware for solid state drives
  • Posted January 3, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Marvell Technology will be teaming up with Taiwan solid state drive maker Memoright as part of a deal that will see them use their controller ICs alongside Memoright’s firmware to build a completely new SSD, according to industry sources in…

CMU wins $1.17 billion verdict against Marvell over HDD patents

CMU wins $1.17 billion verdict against Marvell over HDD patents
  • Posted December 27, 2012, 2:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • Nine jurors have ordered Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon University $1,169,140,271 in damages for infringing two hard drive patents. If the ruling sticks on appeal, it would claim more than a year's worth of profits at Marvell, which earned just over $900 million last year and...

Netflix, EA and RIM leave Nasdaq 100 to make way for Facebook, others

Netflix, EA and RIM leave Nasdaq 100 to make way for Facebook, others
  • Posted December 17, 2012, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • The Nasdaq, a group of the top 100 non-financial companies that trade on the stock exchange, recently updated their index last week to include Facebook. But Facebook and other additions meant that some will have to be bumped from the…

Marvell unveils 802.11ac 4x4 chip with up to 1.3Gb/s data rate

Marvell unveils 802.11ac 4x4 chip with up to 1.3Gb/s data rate
  • Posted December 5, 2012, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Following up on the 802.11ac 2x2 chip unveiled this summer, Marvell has announced what is said to be the industry's first 802.11ac 4x4 wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-a-chip (SoC). Providing streaming data rates of up to 1.3Gb/s when using…

Mainstream SSD prices plummeted nearly 50% in the past year

Mainstream SSD prices plummeted nearly 50% in the past year
  • Posted June 22, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Finally dipping below the heralded $1 per GB mark, it appears overall SSD prices have been on a precipitous decline over the past year. This observation comes from The Tech Report who analyzed data from camelegg.com, a website dedicated to…

Marvell unveils first 802.11ac chip with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC

Marvell unveils first 802.11ac chip with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
  • Posted June 4, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Marvell has pulled the curtain on its first 802.11ac chip, a debut which makes Marvell the second manufacturer to produce an 802.11ac solution thus far. The Avastar 88W8897 may feature a name only an industry OEM could love, but marks…

Marvell announces low-cost, high performance SATA controller for SSDs

Marvell announces low-cost, high performance SATA controller for SSDs
  • Posted March 16, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Marvell has announced their new low-cost 88SS9187 SATA 3 controller, designed for use in solid-state drives (SSDs) targeted at the enterprise and mobile markets. The new controller features the latest 6Gb/s SATA 3.1 host interface which they say has been…

Marvell unveils quad-core ARM chip for enterprises

  • Posted November 9, 2010, 12:44 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Marvell has announced a new system-on-chip (SoC) product, the first ARM-based solution designed for servers: the Armada XP (Extreme Performance). Aimed at enterprises, it features four Marvell-designed ARM v7 MP cores operating at 1.60GHz. The Armada XP will be on…

Marvell developing triple-core mobile CPU, Armada 628

  • Posted September 22, 2010, 8:13 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Update: The launch of the Marvell Armada 628 has been confirmed by the manufacturer. This ultra-low power processor will indeed carry three ARM-compliant CPU cores running at a handsome 1.5GHz (two of them + one lower consumption core), an on-chip…

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