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Posted April 25, 2012, 4:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Although SSD prices have fallen rapidly over the last three years, they haven't fallen rapidly enough some might say. According DigiTimes' all-seeing, ever-elusive "industry sources in Taiwan," many large players concur with that sentiment -- albeit for reasons none too charitable...
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Posted March 26, 2012, 12:28 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
Last January, Crucial announced the Adrenaline SSD series. Not meant to replace their existing and well regarded m4 drives, the Adrenaline is a cache solution meant to work along your existing disk drive, using a 50GB SSD to act as solid state flash-based cache for your larger primary hard drive.

The Adrenaline doesn't require any special drivers as it uses the SATA interface, it can be installed at any point and can therefore be fitted to any computer without the need to reinstall Windows.
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Posted March 12, 2012, 12:00 PM by Steven Parker | Filed in Mobile Computing
With such a huge range of smartphone hardware on the market today from vendors such as Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, LG and more, it can be very confusing to keep up with what exactly is inside each of these devices.…
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Posted February 24, 2012, 8:26 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
SanDisk has announced the world’s smallest 128Gb (16GB) NAND flash memory chip built using a 19nm process, knocking another nanometer off of the world’s current smallest flash memory chip, Micron’s impressive 20nm 128Gb version that was announced in December. …
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Posted December 6, 2011, 4:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Intel and Micron have announced the development of the world's first 128Gbit (16GB) multilevel-cell NAND flash memory chip made using a 20nm manufacturing process technology that incorporates high-K metal gate transistors. Scheduled for mass production in the first half of…
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Posted November 17, 2011, 6:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
Rambus was dealt a major defeat on Wednesday as a San Francisco jury rejected its claims in a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor. The IP licensing company, which has become widely known for its litigious…
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Posted August 22, 2011, 3:41 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
As industry insiders predicted less than a month ago, DRAM prices have continued descending through August and the market is still surrounded by uncertainty for the remainder of 2011. According to DigiTimes' contacts, DRAM chip suppliers are struggling to combat…
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Posted August 10, 2011, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Despite being ranked as the second most popular web browser, Mozilla’s Firefox has a storied past largely due to unresolved memory leaks. As with its predecessors, Firefox 7 will implement various memory leak issues, according to Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote...
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Posted August 9, 2011, 7:02 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Hitachi expanded its flash-based storage offerings today, introducing its new enterprise SSD. Offered alongside last year's Ultrastar SSD400S, the new Ultrastar SSD400M is equipped with more affordable MLC NAND flash chips instead of its sibling's pricier SLC parts (hence the…
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Posted August 8, 2011, 3:04 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Undiscouraged by plummeting DRAM prices, AMD has begun elbowing its way into the system memory market using the Radeon brand. The prominent chipmaker has announced three new DDR3 RAM series: Entertainment, UltraPro Gaming, and Enterprise.
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Posted July 28, 2011, 5:15 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Toshiba has introduced new flash memory chips that offer more performance and storage capacity in less space than existing parts. The company's new 24nm e-MMC chips feature toggle-mode double data rate (DDR) NAND flash memory, which boosts random access and…
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Posted July 27, 2011, 7:21 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Remember how we said RAM prices probably wouldn't get much cheaper in the near future? Well, that was very wrong. Citing anonymous industry sources, DigiTimes reports today that Kingston has cut deals to sell its 2GB DDR3 modules for as…
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Posted July 21, 2011, 4:30 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Hardware
OCZ has introduced its next generation solid state drive memory controller today in the form of the new Indilinx Everest chip. As you may recall, OCZ went all-in with SSD products earlier this year when they announced they would acquire…
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Posted June 27, 2011, 6:09 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
With PC technology progressing so rapidly, system builders generally attempt to time their purchases strategically so they get the best bang for their buck. Diving into the market too soon ensures you'll pay an early adopter tax, but waiting too…
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Posted June 15, 2011, 7:50 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware Breaking News
NEC and Tohoku University have announced the development of the world's first Content Addressable Memory (CAM) that maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing circuits when processing and storing data on a circuit while the power…
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