Samsung also builds flash memory chips for Apple at the factory, according to the report.
According to Tour, his graphene technology can store five times more memory than today's flash memory chips.
STEC's systems help compensate for the weaknesses of flash memory chips, namely the lack of speed and reliability.
The new 32GB memory card incorporates 32Gb 3-bit NAND flash memory chips and a proprietary 3-bit NAND controller to deliver the high performance.
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For some reason, a variety of analysts have simultaneously waxed bullish on the company, which makes both DRAMs and NAND flash memory chips.
All of these storage technologies are based on flash memory chips that are more expensive than Iomega's PocketZip disks--but they have no moving parts.
The supply of NAND flash memory chips is likely to tighten in the wake of the earthquake in Japan, DigiTimes reports this morning.
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Finally, he notes that Apple gets 6% of sales from Japan, as well as key components such as hard drives and NAND flash memory chips.
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Increasingly, PCs are being supplanted by tablet computers which use NAND or flash memory chips rather than hard discs found in desktop and laptop computers.
In the past year, Ruiz said, AMD's share of flash memory chips in high-performance cell phones has doubled to 20%, a trend he expected would continue.
It starts with the idea that the real genius at Apple has been its ability to generate huge profits from selling products based on flash memory chips.
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Shares of SanDisk have been ablaze in the past year, gaining 125% in value as the maker of NAND-based flash memory chips basks in the sweet spot of semiconductors for mobile electronics.
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If Apple is buying between 400 million and 500 million 4 gigabit NAND flash memory chips from Samsung, as reported in the trade press, that probably represents 40% of Apple's total orders, Handy figures.
Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.
Flash memory with higher endurance will increase their performance and may also allow higher flash memory storage capacities by reducing one of the draw-backs in finer lithography flash memory chips endurance declines with narrower lithography flash cells.
Now it is up to customer demand to deliver those top-line numbers--in particular, demand for flash memory chips in advanced cell phones as well as strong sales of AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor for computer servers, due to launch on April 22.
Intel's shares tumbled in January, when it said lower-than-expected demand for the NAND flash memory chips used in digital media players and other gizmos would weigh down earnings (see "Intel's Stock Slammed"), and investors are counting on Otellini to fix that business.
Flash memory has played an important role in these mobile consumer devices because it is rugged, flash memory chips can be stacked to enable compact devices, it uses small amounts of battery power and enough storage capacity can be included to make these devices useful for some common tasks such as email and media playing.
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Like its predecessors, the S10 uses flash internal memory chips to store the music it plays.
It turns out a lot of the flash-memory chips used in mobile phones.
Look for companies that produce the microprocessors and flash-memory chips--all the silicon components that make this new generation possible.
They rely instead on the flash-memory chips used in iPhones and iPads that contribute to longer battery life and lighter weight and allow computers to boot up faster.
Back in early 2012 this blog predicted that with 19-20 nm lithography flash memory the same number of flash chips that provided 64 GB of storage capacity could give 128 GB of capacity.
In addition, as useful amounts of flash memory storage are now affordable, the ruggedness of flash memory and the ability to stack chips to provide slim package designs have made NAND flash the choice non-volatile storage technology for mobile devices.
Luckily for the companies cranking out flash memory--slim memory chips that mimic the capabilities of bulky mechanical hard drives--their old friend Steve Jobs is there to help.
On Tuesday, Sun announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
On Tuesday, Sun (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
In the past, Apple has relied on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom, flash memory from Toshiba, and gyroscopes and accelerometers from ST Micro.
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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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Its flash cards are ubiquitous in digital cameras and its memory chips are found in notebook and netbook computers, smartphones and digital music players.
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