In recent years, we began to see Flash used for custom fonts and transitions.
Direct Edge employees had seen flash used by traders at the CBOE, and used that model to unveil a version of flash that it called its Enhanced Liquidity Program, or ELP.
These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.
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The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
It seems that there are always new storage initiatives pioneering more applications for flash memory used in enterprise applications.
Yet prices for the so-called NAND flash memory used in these gizmos dropped more than 50% between December and February of this year.
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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This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
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Also intelligent storage layering with flash memory used for high performance content delivery can result in HDD storage used more for content storage rather than high performance, and thus providing a relative cost savings.
Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.
Consumer-grade MLC flash memory are used in the Skyhawk by creating controller technology that can increase the effective endurance life-time of the flash memory cells.
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Adobe's Flash is widely used on websites to help them display multi-media content such as videos, animations and sounds.
The flash cache is used to store frequently accessed data providing the fast data response found in solid state drives while the hard disk storage provides low cost storage.
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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.
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.
The new version of the iPlayer has been written with Adobe's AIR technology which aims to make it possible to create applications that can be downloaded to your computer, rather than just embedded in browser web pages as is possible with the widely used Flash software.
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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It turns out a lot of the flash-memory chips used in mobile phones.
Police used "flash-bangs, " devices meant to stun people with a loud noise, and negotiated with Tsarnaev for about half an hour.
Police used "flash-bangs, " devices meant to stun people with a loud noise, and started 20 to 30 minutes of negotiation with Tsarnaev.
PCIe flash memory is also used in some systems for similar purposes.
Flash orders have been used for years but have become increasingly popular in recent months as more traders and exchanges adopted the approach.
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.
In Navevo's case the data will be used to flash a warning symbol on its sat-nav maps when a driver approaches a "warning zone" with a 50m (164ft) radius circle drawn around the area.
The company has introduced products for this industry before but it appears that the time is right for these products as well as hybrid HDDs (HDDs that contain some cache flash memory for frequently used data) to become wide-spread in computer architectures.
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Flash memory is being used as an acceleration layer in many enterprise applications and recent announcements by Macronix indicate that the write life endurance for flash memory cells can be increased considerably by locally exposing NAND flash memory cells to a high heat (about 800 C).
Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
All the wacky, animated stuff you used to need Flash for you can now do in Edge Animate.
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As an additional example, Bradford describes a hiring experience he went through at Fusion-io, the data center flash memory producer where he used to be CEO.
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The change comes in the wake of a vicious public relations battle between Apple and Adobe, creator of a widely used technology called Flash that manages video and animations on many websites.
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