Earlier this year, it struggled to get its NAND memory business in order (see "Memory Problems For Intel").
The South Korean electronics conglomerate is the world's largest producer of NAND memory.
The demand-supply mismatch and increasing competition in the memory market has further put downward pressure on both DRAM and NAND memory product prices.
Nand memory is hot in devices like the iPod but can also be combined with server processors to boot up computers instantaneously, making Intel-based servers more desirable.
The high-performance NAND memory is expected to be of immediate benefit to a host of NAND-based mobile and consumer electronics applications, especially where there is consumer demand for an extra stretch in performance.
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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").
He also noted that chip factory utilization rates have declined to slightly below-seasonal levels, and that contract prices for both DRAM and NAND memory chips are expected to drop in Q3, due to weak PC and smartphone demand.
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The new 32GB memory card incorporates 32Gb 3-bit NAND flash memory chips and a proprietary 3-bit NAND controller to deliver the high performance.
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Samsung started production of 10nm-class 64Gb MLC NAND flash memory in November last year, and in less than five months, has added the new 128Gb NAND flash to its wide range of high-density memory storage offerings.
In technical terms, it manufactures and sells dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash memory products.
Falling prices for everything from the DRAM memory used to make PCs run faster to the NAND flash memory powering digital media players--have sent Micron's shares down 59% over the past year and about 74% over the past two years.
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).
Given that it will take one or two quarters for memory companies to reconfigure their factories to crank out more NAND flash memory, Handy argues, Apple's fresh orders should sop up enough capacity to keep prices steady, at least for now.
This new generation of MLC flash memory SSDs include improvements in the flash cells themselves combined with NAND flash memory management in the controller to achieve much better flash cell endurance.
The Goldman analyst adds that he would advise investors looking for memory sector exposure to instead buy shares of SanDisk, as pure play bet on NAND flash memory.
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The companies are also producing a single level cell 64 Gb (8 GB) NAND flash memory.
Spot prices for NAND flash memory rebounded in the third quarter due to decreased channel supply.
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During the period Masuoka was with Toshiba, the NAND flash memory business did not make big money.
Apple should have an edge thanks to falling prices for the NAND flash memory the Cupertino, Calif.
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Available in pastel pink or blue, the cute player is USB powered with a 2GB NAND Flash memory.
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In addition, the M5M will feature Toshiba's new 19nm Toggle NAND flash memory.
The product is Intel's first SSD to use the latest 20nm NAND flash memory jointly developed by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT).
The company blamed the miss on a NAND flash memory chip shortage.
For some reason, a variety of analysts have simultaneously waxed bullish on the company, which makes both DRAMs and NAND flash memory chips.
Yet prices for the so-called NAND flash memory used in these gizmos dropped more than 50% between December and February of this year.
The second method is far more destructive, and deletes the data by applying an over-current to the NAND flash memory which physically destroys them.
The combination storage offering will combine 128 GB of NAND flash memory with either a 1 TB or 3 TB hard disk drive (HDD).
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The supply of NAND flash memory chips is likely to tighten in the wake of the earthquake in Japan, DigiTimes reports this morning.
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Finally, he notes that Apple gets 6% of sales from Japan, as well as key components such as hard drives and NAND flash memory chips.
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The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.
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