Each disk, called PocketZip, has 40 megabytes of memory that can hold up to 80 minutes of music.
Engineers have spent two decades searching for a single memory that can be all things to all digital machines.
Combined with up to 10GB DDR3 memory that can be expanded to 16GB, these systems deliver excellent system response for multitasking and running the latest multi-threaded applications.
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Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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Some 500 people have been given electronic-book readers, a gadget the size of a paperback with a screen like that of a laptop computer and a slot to take a memory card that can store three or four novels.
The customer wants internal memory that he can increase just by buying an inexpensive chip.
Also, unlike the iPad, it has an easily accessed slot for extra-cost flash memory cards that can expand its storage.
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Eye-Fi, a wireless memory card that can automatically upload photos from a digital camera to a computer or Web site, will be on display at the Las Vegas show.
Last year Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can't even locate commands to hijack them.
It has Internet access only via Wi-Fi, and it has only 2 gigabytes of internal memory, but that can be boosted to 32 gigabytes with an SD card.
The ultimate ambition, according to Professor Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey, is to produce a type of universal memory "that you can take from one computing device to another".
There's also an FM tuner, integrated digital voice recorder, a microSD memory card slot that can handle microSDHC cards up to 8GB in size, support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, and enough battery life for playback of at least 30 hours of audio and 6 hours of video.
Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
The dual-SIM, 98-gram smartphone has a three-inch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a memory capacity of four gigabytes that can be expanded to 32 gigabytes.
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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Plunging memory-chip prices mean that Samsung can no longer rely on its cash cow, however.
Experiments on rodents and primates have shown that NGF can reverse memory loss.
That science blends psychiatry and neuroscience, supposing, for instance, that patients with brain injuries produce false memories because it's their bodies' involuntary, natural way of healing, and that hormones can cause memory suppression.
It has often been said that a man with no memory can have no sense of self.
The young people I work with, they have no memory, or role models or families that can tell them about what it was like before.
The processing power is supported by 8GB of Internal memory and 1GB of RAM so that users can play feature-rich games, multitask and consume limitless media.
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The mists of time can dangerously produce a nostalgic memory that is not supported by the facts.
This is difficult watching a movie based on an 1, 168-page novel that you can practically recite from memory.
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The camera can also shoot short video clips that can be saved to a Memory Stick--Sony's chewing gum-sized flash memory device.
The increased use of flash memory storage has lead to new storage interfaces that can take advantage of the higher data rates that NAND flash based digital storage can provide.
But be aware that the two lowest-priced models, the heavily promoted Classic and Classic II, can accept less memory than the others and come in a sealed case that complicates memory expansion.
The lower resolution also requires less memory for graphical work, meaning that the iPad mini can carry on using the older A5 system on chip.
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The level of interest in new kinds of RAM memory reflects the commercial potential of any successful product that can compete with both flash and DRAM.
That means they can diversify away from memory today, when the market is bad, but return when conditions improve, while investing in new technology and capacity.
It has 15 fully programmable buttons, arranged and tuned for intuitive operation, and on-board flash memory to store macros in up to six profiles that can be switched on-the-fly.
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