Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The transparent electronics that were pioneered at Oregon State University may find one of their newest applications as a next-generation replacement for some uses of non-volatile ...

In 1987 Fujio Masuoka, then working at Toshiba, introduced NAND flash at the 1987 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. Toshiba said that the name “flash” was suggested ...

Octal flash memory, or octal data transfer interface, utilizes eight data lines for input and output operations, resulting in significantly higher data transfer rates compared to serial, dual, and ...

Company says it has made a $500 million prepayment to Toshiba for flash memory chips and indicates that the market is stabilizing. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

NOR flash memory is evolving much in the same way as its cousin, NAND flash: 3D NOR is on the horizon and poised to boost memory densities and dramatically enhance designs. Evolving electronic systems ...

Flash drives are expensive and hold less data, but for tablet PCs, which tend to get dropped a lot, they can be a good fit. Photos: Flash-based LifeBooks Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest “slump” in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend — demand would “hot up,” as the Brits ...