In the same story, Macotakara also reported that the iPhone 5S will feature an improved dual-LED flash system for the rear-facing camera (see image below from GSMArena.) Other rumors have included a better front-facing camera and a faster processor.
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By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
Another benefit of server-side flash is that it allows system administrators to manage flash on the server side for performance, but also keep network storage (for example, the storage area network) for storage capacity.
New storage systems are increasing using flash memory for system acceleration, such as faster transaction processing and data base searches.
Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences.
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Higher flash capacity also offers the possibility that the OS and applications can be stored on the flash memory allowing faster system operation and booting.
It would take only one shelf of a flash-based storage system.
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Skyera is also offering compression and deduplication to lower the total cost to storage content on a flash memory based enterprise storage system.
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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.
Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.
Sun is first releasing a new version of its Solaris operating system designed to integrate flash and traditional disk-drive storage, and in the next six months it plans to sell its own flash storage drives aimed at businesses.
Having a lightweight operating system resting on 64GB of flash storage and powered by 4GB of RAM and a Core i5 means blisteringly fast boot time and ceaselessly snappy performance.
Sure, consumers can expand the system's memory with Flash -- the new model allows for internal memory expansion as well, except for the 12GB version -- but that doesn't line up with SCEA's goals in its territory.
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.
In November Adobe announced that it was finally abandoning development of Flash for mobile browsers, and refocusing on HTML5 for delivering interactive features and video -- the death rattle of a long struggle in which Apple resisted letting Flash run on its iOS mobile operating system.
They pointedly noted that Adobe's Flash media player will be integrated into the system's Web browser.
Other approaches create a hybrid storage configuration where flash and HDDs act like a single storage system.
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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Such a dual storage system combines the advantages of higher speed flash memory with lower storage cost hard disk drives.
He had rigged the .50-caliber machine gun on the turret with a propane system that generates the noise and muzzle flash of gunfire, without the bullets.
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Again, flash-based systems help businesses reduce costs and increase system performance.
"Enthusiasts have long known HyperX as the memory of choice for overclockers and power users who need the most performance from system memory, " said Andrew Ewing, Flash memory business manager, Kingston.
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Increased demand for NAND flash chips used in mobile devices and enhanced revenue in the System LSI Business, which creates mobile application processors and CMOS Image Sensors, supported overall profitability.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
This is because the operating system and pre-loaded software are all on the flash memory.
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Nikon's Creative Lighting System (CLS) supports advanced wireless lighting and creative flash shooting by controlling flash output independently for a master unit and a remote unit group.
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Caching frequently used content on SSDs or flash memory is becoming a common approach to accelerate performance for most storage system suppliers.
Red Hat, the world's largest Linux distributor, has provided an extremely compact version of its Fedora operating system, called Sugar, that uses a mere 130 megabytes of the XO's flash memory.
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