They outfitted three carrier pigeons with teensy, high-density flash memory cards storing a total of 4 gigabytes--the equivalent of 1, 000 songs on an iPod mini--and cast them on a 62-mile journey.

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Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.

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Samsung started production of 10nm-class 64Gb MLC NAND flash memory in November last year, and in less than five months, has added the new 128Gb NAND flash to its wide range of high-density memory storage offerings.

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Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems.

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Intel invested an undisclosed amount a year later, but prospects dimmed considerably when flash, which is relatively expensive, became much less so as its density went up.

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