This new product announcement was released Friday, 1 February 2008, and was copied around the world. In essence, Intel and Micron Technology, in their NAND Flash joint venture, IMF Technologies, announced development and availability of an ONFi compliant NAND device with 200MB/sec read cycle times and 100MB/sec write times, both […]

Past two weeks offer glimpse into NAND’s future: Several important announcements appeared in the past two weeks, which give a glimpse of what lies just down the road in NAND Flash, with several important company announcements at ISSCC from Toshiba and SanDisk, and from IMFT, the joint venture of Intel […]

Consistently tough pricing in DRAMs and on-again off-again tough pricing in NAND Flash throughout 2007 resulted in a dramatic reversal of fortunes for memory makers in 2007. Almost from the start of 2007, prices dropped precipitously, steadying DRAMs in 2Q but a rebound for NAND Flash. The summer was all-around […]

The NAND Flash market is the newcomer to the solid state memory portfolio, having really only come into prominence since 1999, when Toshiba and Samsung kicked it off in a big way. SRAMs, DRAMs, and EPROMs all date back to about 1970, and were the seminal solid state memories that replaced […]

There has been a spate of news in the past week about the (allegedly) fast-improving prospects for DDR3’s use in PCs in 2008. Will DDR3’s price be within 10% of DDR2 prices by the end of the year? DDR3Price Premium . Will DDR3 DRAMs be 30% of PC MB shipments by the […]

Looking past the dire straits of the memory market insofar as today’s pricing goes, there was some interesting news that came forth over the holidays and shortly thereafter, which we note with comment below:
PCM: Well, maybe not so fast, says Intel: In a Phase Change Memory (PCM) news item […]