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Add OCZ to the growing list of SSD vendors differentiating their drives with a proprietary controller

SSD vendor OCZ has been showing its new top-of-the-line Vector 2.5-inch SSD at this week’s Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. During a conference call with analysts, OCZ CEO Ryan Peterson reportedly discussed the controller in the new SSD. It’s … Continue reading

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Be sure to come back on August 21

There are several key announcements queued up on the Denali Memory Report, timed to coincide with the start of the Flash Memory Summit on Tuesday.

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Add Avalanche Technology to the growing list of vendors in pursuit of STT MRAM

EEtimes reports http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391539/Startup-raises-money-to-bring-MRAM-to-market?pageNumber=0 that Avalance Technology http://www.avalanche-technology.com/ has just gotten $30 million in funding from Avalanche’s current investors (Vulcan Capital, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Thomvest Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures) and VTB Capital (Moscow, Russia). The investment is to help … Continue reading

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Want the latest scoop on DDR4 DRAM? Here are some technical answers from the Micron team of interest to IC, system, and pcb designers

DDR4 SDRAM is on the way. Just his month, Samsung announced sampling of its 16Gbyte DDR4 SDRAM RDIMMs (registered DIMMs) based on its 30nm-class DDR4 SDRAM chips. Production is slated for next year. Micron has announced plans for volume DDR4 … Continue reading

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Briefly noted: Greenliant adds 8, 16, and 32Gbyte e.MMC SSDs

Yesterday, Greenliant announced that it was adding SSDs to its NANDrive product line in the e.MMC form factor. These new drives are available in 8, 16, and 32Gbyte capacities and complement the SATA and PATA drives already in the NANDrive … Continue reading

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Yes Virginia, there was a Denali Party at DAC. “Nobody” came

Yes, there was a Denali Party at DAC 2012, sponsored by Cadence. It was held at the Ruby Skye nightclub, the same place it was held last time DAC rolled into San Francisco. “Nobody” came to the party, like the … Continue reading

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Denali Memory Report gets a plug in Reuters story

Jeremy Wagstaff has just published an article on the rapidly evolving memory scene though Reuters. The article is titled “Pushing the PRAM: when chips just can’t get any smaller” and it does a good job of painting the current landscape. … Continue reading

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The Denali Memory Report is on vacation and will return on May 26, 2012

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1Tbyte KingMax SSDs spotted on shelves in Japan. ¥119800 ($1500)

Tweaktown is reporting the appearance of 1Tbyte, 2.5-inch KingMax SSDs on retail shelves in Japan with a price of ¥119800 (about $1500). There’s a photo too, in case you don’t believe the words alone. Tweaktown cites the original information source … Continue reading

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