There are many other companies with new solid state memory product and initiative announcements coming soon.
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Apple recently locked up a large supply with several component vendors for solid state memory and displays.
All tablet computers use solid state memory chips as their primary storage memory since HDD memory generally is comparatively unresponsive and bulky.
Over 8 times as many gigabytes of NAND flash memory has shipped than DRAM, making flash memory the largest solid state memory device on the market and enabling many mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers.
The reason is simple, the costs for content storage is less than other technologies such as solid-state memory.
Panasonic's P2 solid-state memory cards ensure highly reliable video, audio, and metadata recording, especially in challenging conditions of extreme temperature range, shock, and vibration.
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Lately, companies such as STEC have been improving solid-state memory so that it better suits larger scale equipment such as PCs and servers--Seagate's sweet spot.
With the continuous advances in solid-state memory capacity (on microSD cards), the combination of a media player and radio results in a far more powerful learning tool.
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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
Samsung promoted the use of its green memory and solid state storage solutions in virtualized environments.
These observations cover laboratory demonstrations, new uses for external interfaces, interface developments as well as flash memory and solid state drives.
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Toshiba would benefit from economies of scale in manufacturing flash memory, solid-state drives and server-use drives.
"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
XE300M22-A01US carries a 2.5GHz, Sandy Bridge-era dual-core chip on top of the usual 4GB of memory and 16GB solid-state drive.
Finally storage tiering and the combinations of storage and memory are undergoing a revolution as flash memory and perhaps other solid state storage technology such as MRAM find niches in more and more devices.
Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
At the recent Storage Developers Conference (SNW) in Santa Clara, CA several companies participating in the SNIA SSSI (Solid State Storage Initiative) gave a vision of future flash memory storage interfaces, based upon the PCIe computer interface.
The highly advanced chip will enable high-density memory solutions such as embedded NAND storage and solid state drives (SSDs).
The solid- state drive (SSD) capacity and random-access memory (RAM) in the base configuration of the Modbook Pro are also being doubled.
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Control of power utilization in these data centers will drive new tiered storage approaches with solid state storage combined with HDDs and with new non-volatile memory using either flash memory or new approaches such as MRAM.
The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.
Another part of the tablet boom are memory companies like Micron Technologies and SanDisk that make the solid state drives that are used in light-weight tablet devices will be in a good place to benefit from the consumer demand for the products, says Mosesmann.
Configure-to-order options include up to 8 GBs of memory, a faster 7200 RPM hard drive and a 256GB solid state drive.
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The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.
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The announcement today that IBM is acquiring high end enterprise SSD supplier, Texas Memory makes Big Blue the latest storage company to acquire a solid state storage supplier.
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Intel announced a new SATA interface enterprise solid state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nm multi-level cell flash memory (this is 2 bit per cell technology referred to as MLC).
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Apple is offering Macbook Air computers with only flash memory and there is talk of moving the Macbook Pro to only solid state storage.
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The deal also extends the existing patent cross-licensing deal between the two companies, and includes a NAND flash memory supply agreement for Samsung to provide chips to Seagate for solid-state drives and other products.
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Options include adding memory up to 8GB, two 750GB hard drives, or up to two 256GB solid state drives.
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The day before the official start of the conference, Skyera, a company offering a all solid state primary storage system announced that it was partnering with Everspin to provide MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) as part of its offering.
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