The chip, developed by the Memory Spot research team at HP, is 2-4mm square and current versions can hold up to 512 kilobytes of data.
The chip, called a Memory Spot, is at least two years away from widespread consumer use, but it could be deployed more quickly in specialized fields such as pharmaceuticals, said Howard Taub , vice president and associate director of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
Using the Memory Spot, medical supply company McKesson might enable pharmacists to guarantee against drug piracy with an authorization dot on the tops of drug containers, or aid elderly patients in following prescription guidelines via a reader on a pendant or a cell phone that accesses the dot on their pill bottles.
Using the Memory Spot, medical supply company McKesson (nyse: MCK - news - people ) might enable pharmacists to guarantee against drug piracy with an authorization dot on the tops of drug containers, or aid elderly patients in following prescription guidelines via a reader on a pendant or a cell phone that accesses the dot on their pill bottles.
One of the best barometers of this is spot market pricing for memory chips.
Shares of SanDisk have been ablaze in the past year, gaining 125% in value as the maker of NAND-based flash memory chips basks in the sweet spot of semiconductors for mobile electronics.
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Spot prices for NAND flash memory rebounded in the third quarter due to decreased channel supply.
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All things considered we'd say HTC has likely knocked it out of the park with this Engadget specced device, the only thing some might possibly nitpick would be that the 1800mAh battery nestled in the housing is never coming out nor will you find a spot to pop an additional memory card in.
This group, along with Fortify's 35 employees, has been constantly updating its hot spot library to include hacker favorites like memory buffer overflows and insiders misusing firewalls.
The next sore spot for the semiconductor sector rests with flash-memory specialist SanDisk.
The next sore spot for the semiconductor sector rests with flash-memory specialist SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people ).
In the spot market, according to the web site DRAMeXchange, prices today jumped 5% in the spot market for DRAMs, with 10%-20% increased for NAND flash memory.
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Lately, companies such as STEC have been improving solid-state memory so that it better suits larger scale equipment such as PCs and servers--Seagate's sweet spot.
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