The MOVband uses the same technology that most more expensive pedometers do: a 3D accelerometer in a solid state chipset.
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The base model Edge holds 64GB of content in a speedy solid state drive (128GB in the Pro model, upgradeable to 256GB).
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He got a degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in solid state circuits from the University of Alexandria.
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Suhail Khan's father was the late Mahboob Khan, a PhD in solid-state physics.
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Even the 13-inch MacBook Pro (which had been tweaked over the summer) received a bonus upgrade in the form of a Retina Display and a solid state drive, as well as a thinner and lighter body.
Dais is one of about half a dozen companies that sell solid-state heat exchange technology in a market still dominated by mechanical systems that rely on moving parts.
Now Watkins is gunning to do the same thing in a whole new industry: solid-state lighting.
He has business links - and thus access to campaign funds should he decide to run for a major post again - and a solid power base in northeastern Kelantan state.
For instance, a German physicist named Robert Wichard Pohl made a solid-state amplifier in 1938 using salt as the semiconductor.
NAND, in the form of solid state drives (SSDs), is rapidly carving out a niche for itself in computing architectures.
The old rotating navigation wheel from the original iPod is gone, replaced instead by a solid-state wheel that works in much the same way, but doesn't physically rotate.
At the recent Storage Developers Conference (SNW) in Santa Clara, CA several companies participating in the SNIA SSSI (Solid State Storage Initiative) gave a vision of future flash memory storage interfaces, based upon the PCIe computer interface.
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
In a recent report by research firm IHS iSuppli, the sale of solid-state NAND flash drives are projected to increase by 400% in 2011 driven by increasing adoption of tablets which primarily use flash memory for data storage.
In May Jurvetson invested in Vancouver, Canada-based D-Wave Systems, which aims to build a solid-state quantum computer.
With the continuous advances in solid-state memory capacity (on microSD cards), the combination of a media player and radio results in a far more powerful learning tool.
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In January, EMC released its Symmetrix system, which incorporates a combination of spinning disks and solid-state drives built by STEC.
Intel is introducing a new series of solid-state hard drives that offer up to 600 GB in capacity, CNet reports, as its chip geometrics shrink to just 25 nanometers.
Another part of the tablet boom are memory companies like Micron Technologies and SanDisk that make the solid state drives that are used in light-weight tablet devices will be in a good place to benefit from the consumer demand for the products, says Mosesmann.
Finally storage tiering and the combinations of storage and memory are undergoing a revolution as flash memory and perhaps other solid state storage technology such as MRAM find niches in more and more devices.
Combined with advances in "solid state" internal storage and quicker broadband speeds that make downloads and streaming less painful, a post-DVD era could grease the skids for Apple and its competitors to make increasingly thin, light and inexpensive computers.
Flash as a form of solid state storage is much faster for reading and writing data than the spinning disks in traditional disk drives.
He also notes that the company is now in qualification with a number of PC makers on hybrid drives, which includes both the quick booting characteristics of solid-state drives, and the capacity advantages of hard drives.
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In pre-production testing of the Modbook Pro, Modbook Inc. found that solid-state drive options offered a number of clear advantages over mechanical drives.
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The Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with differentiated 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips.
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