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Monthly Archives: January 2012
LeCroy introduces DDR4 Bus and Timing Analyzer at DesignCon 2012
LeCroy’s Kibra 480 DDR bus and timing analyzer now lets you analyze bust traffic on DDR4 interfaces at the board and connector level. It is an evolution from the company’s earlier Kibra 380 DDR3 bus and timing analyzer. (See “How … Continue reading
JEDEC to hold free server memory forum in Shenzen, March 1
Anyone involved in the development and use of server memory will want to consider the free server memory forum that JEDEC will be holding in Shenzen, China on March 1. Current agenda: Server memory roadmaps and trends DDR4 as enterprise … Continue reading
Memcon 2012: Save the date—September 18, 2012 in Santa Clara CA
The date’s official! The 2012 edition of Memcon—the conference devoted to all aspects of semiconductor memory design, manufacture, and use—will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center on September 18, 2012. So put that date on your calendar now, … Continue reading
Nexsan forecasts five SSD trends for 2012
Storage-system provider Nexsan recently issued a press release predicting five major SSD trends for 2012. They are: SSD storage system innovations to improve IOPS and reduce end-to-end latency. How? High-speed interfaces such as Infiniband and PCIe, block-level duplication, auto tiering, … Continue reading
Will this be a good year for SSDs? Take the poll!
Earlier in the week, Western Digital’s CEO John Coyne was quoted in the SSD Review as saying that he did not believe that SSDs would play a large role in Ultrabooks. Specifically, he reportedly said: “I expect ultrabooks to have … Continue reading
Elpida prototypes 50nm, 64Mbit, 10nsec Resistive RAM (ReRAM). 30nm production slated for 2013
Elpida, the world’s third largest DRAM manufacturer, just announced successful development of a 64Mbit resistive RAM (ReRAM) prototype chip using a 50nm process technology. Two key specs for this prototype are a 10nsec write speed, similar to DRAM and orders … Continue reading
JEDEC Mobile Memory Summit: The pace quickens and memory standards must keep up
By Scott Jacobson CES hosted the JEDEC Mobile Memory Summit on January 12th to review the current state of the market for mobile semiconductor memory and to discuss future trends. It was a full day review of current mobile device … Continue reading
Posted in DRAM, eMMC, Flash, JEDEC, NAND, UFS
Tagged Feature Phone, Flash, JEDEC, LPDDR3 SDRAM, Mobile, MultiMediaCard, Smartphone, Universal Flash Storage
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Microprocessor Report names Micron Hybrid Memory Cube as “Best Microprocessor Technology” of the year
This week, Microprocessor Report selected the Micron Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) as the “Best Microprocessor Technology” of 2011. Why? As Tom Halfhill writes: “Memory cubes promise greater density, lower latency, higher bandwidth, and better power efficiency per bit compared with … Continue reading
Samsung packages 4Gbytes of NAND Flash with LPDDR2 DRAM for smartphone and other embedded applications
Samsung has announced that it has started volume production of a combined NAND Flash/DRAM “embedded multichip module” (eMCP). The module combines 30nm-class LPDDR2 DRAM chips (packaged capacities of 256, 512, or 768 Mbytes) with 4Gbytes of 20nm-class NAND Flash in … Continue reading
You say “to-may-to” and I say “to-mah-to.” So how do you say “memristor”? Part 2
A couple of days ago, I noted that Bryon Moyer at Electronic Engineering Journal had interviewed me and quoted me about the recent brush up over the term “memristor” in his article “A Memristor By Any Other Name?” Moyer wrote: … Continue reading
You say “to-may-to” and I say “to-mah-to.” So how do you say “memristor”?
Bryon Moyer at Electronic Engineering Journal and I had a discussion a couple of weeks ago about memristors, real and ideal, and resistive RAM. Is there a difference? Does it matter? What is it we’re really looking for, a “true” … Continue reading
Is MRAM ramping up to the big time?
Today, MRAM (magnetic RAM) supplier Everspin announced that it expects to close out FY 2011 with a shipment volume that exceeds that of 2010 by more than a factor of three. MRAM combines the thin-film magnetics initially developed for the … Continue reading
SSDs as HDD caches to grow like topsy say Intel and IHS iSuppli
Intel has made a significant change in the way its chipsets handle SSDs and the result, according to analyst firm IHS iSuppli, will be a 100x increase in the annual number of drives sold in the PC space between now … Continue reading
Ever get the thrill of seeing a Tesla coil torture an SSD? ioSafe wants to be sure you get the opportunity
One reason for the success of the Robot Wars and Battlebots TV shows among engineers is because they love to see engineered products get destroyed, usually as long as they didn’t have a hand in designing and building them. They … Continue reading
Crucial updates SSD firmware that allows drives to cruise past 5184 hours
After 5184 hours of active use, users of Crucial SSDs were experiencing intermittent blue screens of death (BSODs). Now the company has released a field-installable firmware update that appears to solve the problem. Check it out here. As SSDs become … Continue reading
IBM’s Almaden Labs sets lower mass bound for nanoscale magnetic storage: 12 atoms
Researchers at the IBM Almaden Labs south of San Jose, CA have experimentally set the lower bound on magnetic storage at 12 atoms. It appears that eight atoms can’t quite cut it. Although the atoms are iron atoms, their antiferromagnetic … Continue reading
New Swiss Army Knife: knife blade, scissors, a nail file, and a 1Tbyte SSD. $3000???
According to this article on http://www.psfk.com, Swiss Army Knife vendor Victorinox introduced a new pocket knife at this week’s CES with a knife blade, scissors, a nail file, and a 1Tbyte SSD. The SSD is built into a pop-out, clear … Continue reading
How about a close look at Micron’s incredible shrinking Flash memory?
Chris Ramseyer at Tweaktown was kind enough to notice and snap this photo of Micron’s incredible shrinking Flash memory chips at this week’s Storage Visions event in Las Vegas. The image shows graphically what the numbers tell us intellectually. Starting … Continue reading
High-Speed HDDs versus SSDs: Is there even a question?
Manek Dubash recently published a blog post on the UK ZDNet Web site that discusses the impact SSDs will have on high-speed hard disks in the enterprise storage market. He writes: “Each approach has its own attractions and dis-benefits, with … Continue reading
SSDs present problems to forensic experts
Perhaps you’re familiar with the construction of hard disks and SSDs. However, it may not have occurred to you that the radical differences between a spinning hard disk and the stacks of Flash memories in SSDs would present a problem … Continue reading
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Need an objective way to evaluate SSD performance? SNIA has one
SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has just published a White Paper titled “Understanding SSD Performance Using the SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification” as a companion piece to the association’s SSD Performance Test Specification (PTS). As the White Paper’s introduction … Continue reading
Marvell brews ARM-based native PCIe SSD Controller IC: 88NV9145 handles direct PCIe to NAND Flash I/O for high-performance, low-overhead SSD designs
It looks like 2012 is the year for native PCIe (PCI Express) interfaces to NAND Flash devices. Hot on the heels of the PCIe-based XQD memory card specification from the Compact Flash Alliance (see “Nikon D4 camera and Sony H … Continue reading
Toshiba adds 4 and 8Gbit BENAND devices to its SmartNAND lineup
Toshiba has just announced a new family of SLC (single-level cell) managed NAND Flash devices dubbed BENAND. The 24nm devices incorporate ECC so that the host processor need not perform that function, which saves time and simplifies the NAND Flash … Continue reading
Is 2012 the year ONFI 3.0 takes off? Intel, Micron, and Cadence say yes.
The ONFI 3.0 specification—released in March, 2011—raises the bar on the interface to Flash semiconductor memory. In particular, it boosts transfer rates to 400 Mtransfers/sec using an NV-DDR2 DDR-400 signaling protocol; it adopts 1.8V SSTL_18 differential signaling on the strobes … Continue reading
Nikon D4 camera and Sony H Series Flash memory cards usher in the era of high-performance XQD cards with PCIe interfaces
Nikon and Sony have jumped the gun on CES by introducing a new DSLR camera (the Nikon D4) and a new series of Flash storage media (the Sony H Series). These announcements mark the beginning of the XQD Flash card … Continue reading
Posted in Compact Flash, Flash, NAND, SD, XQD
Tagged Compact Flash, Nikon, PCIe, SD, Sony, XQD
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The return of Memcon in 2012
Under the leadership of Denali Software, Memcon became the single most important event for the semiconductor memory and storage industries. Now Cadence is taking that legacy into the future. Yes, that’s right, Memcon is back for 2012 as a standalone … Continue reading
Big week for Wide I/O: JEDEC publishes spec while Elpida ships sample 4Gbit parts
Wide I/O jumped closer to being a reality this week with two major announcements. On December 28th, Elpida announced that they were making sample shipments of 4Gbit Wide-IO. (See “Let’s start the new year with a bang! Elpida ships 4Gbit … Continue reading
Posted in JEDEC, LPDDR2, SDRAM, Wide I/O
Tagged Elpida, Elpida Memory, JEDEC, LPDDR2, SDRAM, ST-Ericsson, Wide I/O
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Let’s start the new year with a bang! Elpida ships 4Gbit Wide I/O and LPDDR3 SDRAM samples
Two DRAM categories that will shake up mobile product design this year are Wide I/O and LPDDR3. Elpida announced just at the end of the year that it has started shipping samples of 4Gbit SDRAMs with both interface types based … Continue reading
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