Articles tagged with: Flash Memory and Fujitsu

Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008

Shakespeare's adage, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," was certainly true for the kings of the semiconductor industry in 2008, with eight out of the Top-10 suppliers suffering revenue declines for the year, according to iSuppli Corp.  more

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Flash Memory in Casio Cellphones

Spansion, the Flash memory venture of AMD and Fujitsu has announced that Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications has developed two new cellular handsets with 512 Mb NOR Flash memory, which uses stacked versions of Spansion's WS256N, a NOR Flash memory device based on the company's MirrorBit technology. The new G'zOne and A5512CA mobile phones developed by Casio-Hitachi and available now in Japan, integrate 80 MHz versions of the Spansion WS256N, the fastest frequency using two-bit-per-cell technology. In addition, Spansion has proven that the WS256N has headroom to spare, providing a platform for wireless designs with frequencies up to 108 MHz. more

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Fujitsu launches four stack chipset

Fujitsu Microelectronics America has introduced the industry's first four-stacked multi-chip package (MCP). The new MCP is equipped with a pair of 64 Megabit NOR dual-operation flash memory chips and 32 Megabit mobile Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAM) with an asynchronous SRAM interface and 8 Megabit SRAM. Fujitsu also announced a two-stacked MCP that incorporates 16/32/64 Megabit FCRAM, for mobile phone developers. more

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