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- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Terabit 3-D chips will keep the flash party rolling
- Industry seers have been predicting the end of NAND flash's rapid price declines and density increases due to physical limits. But if you can't get smaller, get higher. Here's how Samsung plans to mass produce 1 Tbit chips in 2013. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology
- Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Jobs responds to iPod touch video snub
- More BS from Wonder Boy.If the price of the Nano DIDN'T increase with the addition of the video camera, FM radio, Pedometer, etc., then Stevie Boy is full of it when he says he needs to keep the price of the Touch down.RE: Jobs responds to iPod touch video snubSteve...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Intel, Micron announce chip technology for USB drives
- Intel and Micron Technology today announced the development of a new chip technology for use in flash cards and USB drives. Built on the companies' 34-nanometer nm NAND process, the new 3-bit-per-cell multi-level cell NAND technology produces "the industry’s smallest and most cost-effective 32-gigabit Gb chip that is currently available...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- The Windows Mobile-Windows continuum: The plot thickens
- The Windows Mobile-Windows continuum: The plot thickens"3 screens and a cloud"This is a phrase that we will hear more and more from Microsoft. From a developers perspective the goal is one code base that compiles for Mobile, Web and desktop. The basis of that is Xaml/silverlight/wpf. We...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- SSDs are getting better, still not there yet
- To date, the solid-state disk has been a tech mirage. The vision is great, but it always seems to be just over the horizon. SSDs have struggled to live up the performance promises, and they remain too expensive to provide any real competition to hard drives. But...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Intel debuts 34nm NAND flash SSDs; lowers prices 60%
- Intel on Tuesday announced that it is moving to a more advanced, 34-nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based solid-state drives. The move to 34nm will help lower prices of the SSDs up to 60 percent for computer manufacturers and consumers thanks to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Lexar debuts 64GB, 128GB, 256GB Crucial M225 SSDs
- Lexar debuts 64GB, 128GB, 256GB Crucial M225 SSDsMLC NAND? No thanks.I was stoked about the capacity until I read that it's MLC NAND. Presumably they're using that for price considerations, but MLC NAND, by design, has a higher BER Bit Error Ratio with a higher probability of data error and...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Lexar debuts 64GB, 128GB, 256GB Crucial M225 SSDs
- Lexar on Monday announced its line of Crucial solid-state drives, the "fastest, highest capacity Crucial SSDs to date." The calling card of the new drives are their fast read and write speeds: The flagship 256GB Crucial M225 SSD offers 250MB/sec read speed...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Corsair debuts Extreme Series X32, X64, X128 SSDs
- Corsair has revealed its latest line of 2.5-inch solid-state drives, the "Extreme" series, which have been tested to reach read rates of up to 240MBps and write rates of 170MBps HotHardware reports that the new Extreme lineup consists of three drives: the X32,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- News to know: Firefox 3.5; Lenovo; Blackberry Tour; Chambers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons! Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 released, more...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Micron begins mass production of 34nm NAND flash memory
- Micron Technology on Tuesday announced mass production of new 16- and 32-gigabit NAND flash memory chips using 34-nanometer process technology, another step toward more robustly-featured mobile devices, including phones, MIDs, digital cameras, camcorders and netbooks. Micron's new 32Gb multi-level...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Adaptec v. the lithium-ion battery
- 5Z RAID controllers with NAND flash memory, courtesy Adaptec. Adaptec is coming out with a product for datacenters that is so obvious, so simple, so why-didn't-we think-of that. Flash memory that is constantly updated rather than hard-drives that need battery power to allow data retrieval. Why...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Transcend SSD18M solid-state drive (128GB)
- The Transcend SSD18M is an external storage device that uses a solid-state hard drive SSD with no moving parts to keep data. The Intel X-25M internal drive came through the CNET labs last October and proved the benefits of SSD--faster access and boot times--but the Transcend SSD18M adds the extra...
- Product reviews 2009-06-11
- Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers
- Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives SSDs in select Power Edge servers. Solid State, the use of NAND Flash as a storage medium versus traditional rotating disks, is not a new idea. Consumer electronics have made use of NAND Flash at small...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Flash memory shocker: Sandisk says prices, demand increasing
- SanDisk chief Eli Harari delivered some odd news for folks tracking the memory market: Flash memory prices and demand are actually rising. That takeaway---which counts as a big revelation for financial/tech nerds---came on SanDisk's first quarter earnings conference call. SanDisk's first quarter was weak as expected, but...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model Dancho Danchev: Fake "Conficker Infection...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Apple hoarding NAND flash memory, 32GB iPhone here I come!
- Apple hoarding NAND flash memory, 32GB iPhone here I come!pure supply and demand.. i dont see a problem with that.The big cable/phone providers were doing it back in 2001 with fiber cabling. You had to wait months to get it because they were buying everything they could get their...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
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