Rohrer built the application and stored the only copy on a flash memory drive, which he showed to the GDC crowd.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
The flash memory in the Fusion Drive moves data and applications frequently accessed by the user to the flash memory and move less frequently used data to the hard disk drive as the flash memory becomes full.
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All three of Pioneer's new players come complete with either on-board memory or flash drive for expandable memory to ensure consumers can take advantage of BD-Live right out of the box.
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For example, because it is normally strapped to its owner, it is harder to misplace than a flash drive or memory stick.
The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
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Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air, the 2.4-pound Toshiba includes the optical drive that the MacBook Air lacks while cramming in 128 gigabytes worth of storage, thanks to the world's largest capacity flash memory-based hard drive.
We realised that if you had digital music, music that was digitised that is, then you could store it on flash memory or a hard drive and thus create a music player that could store many more songs that the Sony Walkmans or portable CD players that were the rage at the time.
This last week saw some interesting announcements representing the implementation of technologies that will enhance hard disk drive and flash memory technology in 2013 and beyond.
The Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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Like an iPad and the iPhone, the two notebooks rely on flash memory, rather than a conventional hard drive.
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Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
This need, plus caching of frequently accessed content will drive the requirements for flash memory storage as an important tier in enterprise storage infrastructures.
The new drive has twice the flash memory capacity as the prior generation (8 GB vs. 4 GB) and 50% more storage capacity at 750 GB (vs. 500 GB).
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The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple's classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
Digital content can be loaded and played using a USB drive or most types of flash memory cards.
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.
To the extent 2011 sees lower year-over-year growth than originally forecasted, we would expect to see that demand pushed into 2012, because of the fundamental drivers, from the standpoint of expansion of network services, the cloud and new applications for NAND flash memory in PCs will continue to evolve and drive the industry.
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Kingstron was showing many flash memory products at the CES show but a particularly interesting product was their 1 TB USB flash drive.. The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator will be available with 512 GB and 1 TB storage capacity.
Kingston offered a new version of their Wi-Drive with up to 128 GB flash memory capacity and expansion capacity using an SD card.
Apple introduced its version, called Fusion Drive, that tiers storage on flash memory or a HDD depending upon frequency of use, but appearing to the user as a single storage device.
Also, the magazine states the console has a "large amount of flash memory, " so that no matter what hard drive you end up with, you'll always have the system software running from the included flash.
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The combination storage offering will combine 128 GB of NAND flash memory with either a 1 TB or 3 TB hard disk drive (HDD).
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Seagate had a technology demonstration at their hotel suite in the CES where they were showing a 7mm thick 2.5-inch hybrid drive with 500 GB HDD and 32 GB flash memory capacity.
He was right: These days, for anything under 256 megabytes of memory, including mobile phones, flash is cheaper than a hard drive.
It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
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