Articles tagged with: Memory and Flash Memory

'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money

..w-power computer. It has a low-power processor, some memory, a lightweight operating system, and a small amount of flash to store data. Everything is scaled down and extremely energy efficient," said Agarwal, a self described "compute more

Spansion and Samsung Settle Patent Litigation Lawsuit:

Spansion, the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, has announced that it has settled its patent litigation lawsuits with Samsung Electronics. As part of the settlement, Samsung will pay Spansion US$70 million and Spansion and Samsung Electronics Company have exchanged rights in their patent portfolios in the form of licenses and covenants subject to a confidential settlement agreement. more

Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008

..cused on semiconductor segments that performed poorly during the year, including memory, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), analog Integrated Circuits (ICs) and standard logic. This caused 80 percent of the Top-10 and 60 percent of the Top-25 se more

Future Mobile Phones Could Come with 2 Terabyte Memory Cards

The SD Association has published the specifications for a new memory card format which could deliver mobile phones with a massive 2 Terabyte memory capacity. The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification also accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second. more

Related Tags: microsoft, kindle, semiconductor, gartner, nand, flash, interoperability

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined $12 Billion in 2008

..(see Table 1). However, Gartner's 2007 revenue includes Intel's NOR flash memory business that was spun off in the second quarter. Comparing only continuing operations, Intel's revenue grew 6.5 percent, beating the market average by nearly 11 p more

Could a Transparent Mobile Phone be Possible?

..ear -- the first of its kind. The new technology, called transparent resistive random access memory (TRRAM), is described in this week's issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is published by the American Institute of Physics. The more

Related Tags: semiconductor, flash, usb, cmos

Consumer Weakness Drives Negative Outlook for Semiconductors in 2009

.. unit growth. Overall, Fitch expects global semiconductor industry revenues, including memory makers, to decrease in the high single digits in 2009 from modestly higher revenue growth in 2008. Excluding memory makers, which are more exposed to more

A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers

For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from iSuppli. more

Miniaturizing memory: Taking data storage to the molecular level

..phones and cameras to music players and laptops - get more powerful, the race is on to develop memory formats that can satisfy the ever-growing demand for information storage on tiny formats. Researchers at The University of Nottingham are now e more

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Developing SIM Cards with a 128MB Memory

..tions that combine an Infineon security microcontroller with Micron's NAND flash memory with features designed specifically for HD-SIM applications. Micron will manufacture the NAND on 50-nanometer (nm) and 34-nm process technology. "Infineon more

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