Apple has cut its 2008 flash memory orders by US$200 million, according to market intelligence firm iSuppli, setting up a down year for flash vendors.
Flash memory growth will be a shadow of what was originally predicted according to new figures.
Samsung is warning its customers that NAND flash memory might be hard to come by for some time after Apple placed a large order, according to a report out of Taiwan.
Semiconductor sales grew 5.9 percent worldwide in April, showing some resilience to the sluggish US economy, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday.
BitMicro Networks has announced plans for a 1.6TB solid state drive the size of a standard 3.5-inch hard disk.
Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks.
Improvements to the processor, chipset and wireless components of Intel's latest mobile platform should result in a new generation of faster notebooks with longer battery life. Business systems will also get Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) for the first time, while Turbo Memory should reduce the frequency of hard disk accesses, saving power and boosting performance.
The only question is which approach will work best -- using molten silicon, designer molecules, or maybe protein globules?
As a size barrier looms for the memory chips, the industry works to come up with a successor.
The Acer Aspire One is better than most netbooks and is fantastic for anyone who wants a small, cheap machine on which to type and surf the Web. However, its battery life lets it down slightly.
The market for flash memory-based USB storage devices is expected to grow rapidly over the new few years, reaching US$3.8 billion in revenue by 2006, according to a report released Monday by Semico Research.
Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.
Toshiba's latest Pocket PC is a competent performer, but there's little here to get truly excited about. Read our Australian review.
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