Intel and Micron develop smallest, cheapest NAND flash yet
Intel and Micron have just announced the development of a new Multi Level Cell NAND Flash based on a 34nm fabrication process using three-bits-per-cell. The 2 companies say this will allow them to produce 32Gb chips smaller and cheaper than those currently available on the market. These developments are quite important for the penetration of…
Read MoreIntel Core i7 and Core i5 Platforms get SLI Support
NVIDIA have finally announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA SLI technology for inclusion on their Intel P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket. As a result, customers who purchase…
Read MoreKingston releases SSDNow V+ line of SSDs
Kingston are still relatively new to the SSD market but they are releasing theur second range of SSDs. The new SSDNow V+ line best the previous non plus version with read and write speeds up to 220MB/sec and 180MB/sec, respectively, and pack some higher input and output operations per second (or IOPS) to boot, which…
Read More2.5TB HDD by 2010
TDK Corporation recently revealed a roadmap that says 2.5” 640GB and 3.5” 2.5TB HDD should be available by January 2010 TDk themselves are a major player in the manufacture of read/write heads for many HDD suppliers. They are currently producing high density read/write heads for 250 GB/platter (2.5-inch) and 500 GB/platter (3.5-inch). They have however…
Read MoreOCZ and Indilinx develop firmware to solve SSD Garbage problem
Solid State Drives are pretty much guaranteed to take over Hard Drives in the future. At the moment they are establishing their popularity with the enthusiast market but eventually they will become mainstream with consumers. This is mainly due to their low noise, low power consumption, blisteringly fast read times and increasingly fast write times.…
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