In the quarter, NAND Flash revenues were down 12% sequentially on an 11% drop in sales volume, a drop the company blamed on a one-time increase in volume in Q3 from the sale of work in process inventories resulting from the restructuring of the IM Flash joint venture with Intel.

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Considering that Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital are all in the SSD business I expect to see more interaction and joint development of HDD and flash products in future industry offerings.

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The main camera on the Focus S is an 8 megapixel joint with a lone LED performing flash duties.

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Despite generating just a fraction of Intel's sales, Intel's NAND flash memory business--a joint venture with Micron--will weigh on Intel's first-quarter profits, thanks to a worldwide glut of NAND memory (see "Memory Problems For Intel").

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In 1999 former Micron executive Tyler Lowry formed a joint venture with ECD called Ovonyx to make memory that, like flash, doesn't lose data when it loses power.

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Intel and Micron originally used this approach in their IMFT joint venture in the fall of 2008 to introduce 34nm NAND chips and are currently using it to produce NAND flash on 25nm and 20nm volume production processes.

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