Electronics Hardware New graphene-based flash memory writes data in 400 picoseconds, shattering all speed records "PoX" can execute 25 billion operations every second By Skye Jacobs, April 19, 2025, 2:09 PM 16 comments
Hardware Industry Memory makers cut production as NAND flash prices slide Flash memory prices keep falling, but AI and high-capacity storage may fuel recovery By Skye Jacobs, February 18, 2025, 7:48 AM
Security Hardware Buffalo's latest USB stick features hardware-level antivirus security On-board malware scanning keeps viruses from hitching a ride By Zo Ahmed, January 23, 2025, 1:26 PM
Gaming Tech Culture Nintendo Wii U consoles are dying due to memory-related issues, but there's a fix Inexpensive memory chips seemingly sentenced the Wii U to an early death By Alfonso Maruccia, October 23, 2024, 2:22 PM 18 comments
Hardware Industry Faster and cheaper SSDs may be coming as Samsung's 280-layer QLC NAND hits mass production Denser, more affordable SSDs could soon flood the market By Zo Ahmed, September 13, 2024, 10:04 AM
Hardware RISC-V SSD controller provides 14GB/s transfers without a cooling solution Reaching peak performance with no need for a heatsink? By Alfonso Maruccia, March 27, 2024, 1:11 PM
Industry Hardware Japan will provide more subsidies to Kioxia and Western Digital for NAND memory chip manufacturing Generative AI models need more memory, and manufacturers need more public funding to get going By Alfonso Maruccia, February 7, 2024, 3:29 PM
Hardware Supplier aims for 300TB flash drives by 2026 Pure Storage plans to outpace HAMR HDD development with 3D NAND advances By Daniel Sims, March 3, 2023, 6:55 AM
Hardware Samsung memory chip foundry set to lose $3.04 billion in Q1 2023 Company has propped the division up with a loan from its displays subsidiary By Cal Jeffrey, March 2, 2023, 5:36 PM 9 comments
Hardware Industry Phison's new PCIe 5.0 NAND controller paves the way for faster SSDs SSDs capable of speeds of up to 16 GB per second are coming in 2022 By Adrian Potoroaca, October 1, 2021, 10:18 AM 15 comments
Hardware Electronics WD's new 20TB HDDs combine 9 spinning platters with iNAND UFS memory Unlike traditional SSHDs that store user data on faster memory, these drives store metadata from HDD ops to boost performance By Humza Aamir, September 2, 2021, 7:43 AM
Hardware Electronics Move over M.2, here comes the XFM memory specification And it might displace soldered storage, too, with some luck By Matthew Lee, August 28, 2021, 2:11 PM 9 comments
Hardware Industry X-NAND promises QLC memory that works at SLC speeds The new technology is one step closer to becoming a reality By Adrian Potoroaca, August 9, 2021, 8:04 PM 15 comments
Hardware PNY crams 512GB into the micro-sized Elite-X Fit flash drive You won't be quite as impressed with its performance though By Humza Aamir, June 15, 2020, 7:44 AM
Electronics Mobile Samsung debuts 1TB flash storage chips for mobile devices Shoot all of the 960FPS video By Greg Synek, January 30, 2019, 8:32 AM
Industry Micron is buying Intel's share of their 3D XPoint joint venture For $1.5 billion By Rob Thubron, October 19, 2018, 6:17 AM
Hardware Industry New UFS 3.0 flash storage standard could double smartphone data transfer speeds Flash storage could get even faster soon By Cohen Coberly, February 1, 2018, 12:29 PM
Hardware Industry Limited supply and heavy demand for NAND flash is pushing SSD prices upward By Shawn Knight, December 4, 2016, 6:45 PM 13 comments
Hardware Toshiba announces OCZ-branded VX500 series solid state drives By Shawn Knight, September 14, 2016, 10:15 AM
Hardware Industry Solid state drives will soon outpace traditional HDDs in notebooks By Shawn Knight, August 30, 2016, 7:00 AM 16 comments
Hardware Electronics Samsung's new 512GB solid state drive is impossibly tiny By Shawn Knight, May 31, 2016, 5:30 PM 16 comments
Hardware Gaming Micron confirms GDDR5X has entered mass production ahead of schedule By Shawn Knight, May 11, 2016, 2:45 PM
Hardware Gaming AMD quietly launches second-generation Radeon R3 solid state drives By Shawn Knight, May 5, 2016, 7:30 AM 7 comments
Hardware Intel launches budget-minded 540s Series SSDs, pricing starts under $55 By Shawn Knight, April 15, 2016, 11:30 AM 11 comments
Mobile Hardware Your next smartphone may include 256GB of storage courtesy of Samsung By Shawn Knight, February 25, 2016, 12:30 PM 16 comments