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Qimonda Digs Itself Out of Trench

Posted date: 3:59pm
Qimonda created a stir last week when it unveiled a new DRAM technology called ?Buried Wordline Technology? which purportedly consumes less power than ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D9197930736031431631 - Gregory Wong

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NAND Flash Capex - Full Steam Ahead!

Posted date: 3:43pm
Despite the current oversupply environment and the heavy price drops this quarter (Intel reported ASP declines of 53%), NAND flash manufacturers are ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D15499647844839295726 - Gregory Wong

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Micron-Nanya Deal Re-shapes DRAM Landscape

Posted date: 3:41pm
The signing of a memorandum of understanding between Micron Technology and Nanya Technology to jointly develop and manufacture sub-50nm DRAM technology ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D6803211765245287999 - Gregory Wong

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Numonyx Born #1

Posted date: 1:40pm
Intel and STMicroelectronics today announced the official launch of their JV, Numonyx. Numonyx combines the NOR flash assets of Intel and NAND and NOR ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D9796230852878324053 - Gregory Wong

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Hynix Signs Another Deal

Posted date: 1:38pm
Hynix signed another deal, this time with Grandis to jointly develop spin-torque RAM. Unlike the current MRAM products marketed by Freescale, STT-RAM uses ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D9274065263926320150 - Gregory Wong

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Seagate Fires First Volley Against SSD maker

Posted date: 1:34pm
Hard drive maker Seagate a lawsuit against solid state drive manufacturer STEC in the Northern District of California claiming STEC infringed four of ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D7670639022330982824 - Gregory Wong

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Macronix: After the Qimonda Divorce

Posted date: 1:33pm
Just 3.5 months after signing the agreement, Macronix International and Qimonda AG announced that Qimonda terminated the Flash technology license and joint ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D16528697291424804122 - Gregory Wong

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Hynix Develops x3

Posted date: 1:30pm
Hynix announced it has developed a 32Gb 3-bit per cell NAND flash slated for production in October. Hynix stated that the 3-bit per cell technology would ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D8433742619254949424 - Gregory Wong

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SanDisk and Toshiba to Jointly Develop 3D Memory

Posted date: 1:28pm
In a SEC filing today, SanDisk disclosed that it had signed a collaboration agreement with Toshiba for re-writeable 3D memory. ...
http://www.google.com/base/a/3408147/D3988674113035815139 - Gregory Wong

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Flash Memory Replacement Achieves Major Milestones

Posted date: Mar 4
At last week?s ISSCC, Intel and STMicroelectronics presented a paper demonstrating the first multi-level cell phase change memory [PCM]. ...
http://base.google.com/base/a/3408147/D12418924905320679641 - Gregory Wong

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