Micron
For Computex week, Micron was at the show in force in order to talk about its latest products across the memory spectrum. The biggest news for the memory company was that it has kicked-off sampling of it's next-gen GDDR7 memory, which is expected to start showing up in finished products later this year and was being demoed on the show floor. Meanwhile, the company is also eyeing taking a much larger piece of the other pillar of the high-performance memory market – High Bandwidth Memory – with aims of capturing around 25% of the premium HBM market. GDDR7 to Hit the Market Later This Year Micron's first GDDR7 chip is a 16 Gb memory device with a 32 GT/sec (32Gbps/pin) transfer rate, which is significantly faster...
Intel Sells Some of Its IMFT Stake to Micron
Intel and Micron today announced that they have done some modifications to their agreements on their IMFT joint venture. In short, Intel is selling its stake in two fabs...
6 by Kristian Vättö on 2/28/2012
Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in a Plane Crash
Micron's long time CEO, Steve Appleton, has died in a plane crash at the age of 51 at the Boise Airport on Friday morning. He was reportedly flying a...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 2/4/2012
Crucial 50GB Adrenaline SSD Cache, Available in Q1
Earlier this week Crucial announced its first SSD caching solution: the Adrenaline SSD. The drive will be available in a single capacity: 50GB with 64GB of 25nm MLC NAND...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2012
Intel and Micron (IMFT) Announce World's First 128Gb 20nm MLC NAND
Earlier this year, Intel and Micron's joint NAND manufacturing venture (IMFT) announced it had produced 64Gb (8GB) MLC NAND on a 20nm process. Most IMFT NAND that's used in...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2011
Rambus Loses Major Antitrust Case Against Hynix & Micron
There are few companies in the tech world as infamous as Rambus, an IP-only RAM development firm. For the better part of 10 years now they have been engaged...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2011
Intel and Micron Develop Hybrid Memory Cube, Stacked DRAM is Coming
During the final keynote of IDF, Intel's Justin Rattner demonstrated a new stacked DRAM technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). The need is clear: if CPU performance is...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011
The Crucial m4 SSD Update: Faster with FW0009
When we first reviewed Crucial's m4 SSD we came away with mixed feelings on the drive. In some cases it was the first or second fastest drive we'd reviewed...
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/31/2011
Micron's P320h: A Custom Controller Native PCIe SSD in 350/700GB Capacities
SSDs are beginning to challenge conventional drive form factors in a major way. On the consumer side we're seeing more systems use new form factors for SSDs, enabled by...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2011
The Crucial m4 (Micron C400) SSD Review
Last week I was in Orlando attending CTIA. While enjoying the Florida weather, two SSDs arrived at my office back in NC: Intel's SSD 320, which we just reviewed...
103 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2011
Micron's RealSSD C400 uses 25nm NAND at $1.61/GB, Offers 415MB/s Reads
Here’s a little deja vu for you. At last year’s Storage Visions (a small storage show that precedes CES) Micron announced its first 6Gbps SSD, the RealSSD C300. Although...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2011
Micron's ClearNAND: 25nm + ECC, Combats Increasing Error Rates
NAND endurance is on its way down with each subsequent process generation. At the same time unrecoverable bit error rates are on their way up. Companies like SandForce have...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2010
Micron Announces RealSSD P300, SLC SSD for Enterprise
Buying an SSD for your notebook or desktop is nice. You get more consistent performance. Applications launch extremely fast. And if you choose the right SSD, you really curb...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/12/2010
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