The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

Two decades ago Samsung took a leap in the dark. The company has always been known for breaking new ground, but at the beginning of the century it turned its attention to a storage technology that ...

Flash memory has become one of the fastest growing semiconductor memories because of widespread adoption of this nonvolatile memory in portable electronics devices and consumer applications. Two major ...

Apple's investments in acquiring flash memory expertise and technology appear to be centered around packing more storage capacity into Macs and iOS devices at lower prices, with the same level of ...

Flash is often seen as a good half-way house between RAM and ROM. While RAM forgets everything stored when the power is switched off, ROM remembers everything after the power is turned off. Flash will ...

Samsung has a new laptop prototype that doesn't use a hard-disk drive; it runs on 32 gigabytes of flash memory. Steve Inskeep talks with David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times about ...

The five largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives will work together to promote a new technology that promises to improve system performance, the companies said Thursday. Hitachi Global Storage ...

Microsoft research project makes flash storage work more efficiently in conjunction with RAM and hard disk for speedier reads and writes. Microsoft researchers are trying to improve the efficiency of ...

The flash storage industry has evolved in the past couple of years even as the spinning hard disk industry continues to shrink. Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets this year ...

Circa 1984 while in the employ of Toshiba, Dr. Fujio Masuoka invented a unique type of memory device having the desirable features of read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), and ...

Researchers Sean Cross and Dr. Andrew Huang demonstrated yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress that they could write arbitrary code onto various flash-based SD memory cards. Researchers ...