Toshiba shareholders approve NAND flash sale
Turning flash into a load of old Tosh
Toshiba shareholders have approved a proposal to split off the Japanese company's prized NAND flash memory unit.
Tight NAND flash supply causes price jump
More than 10 percent
Client-grade SSDs of mainstream capacities continue to see rising contract prices in the PC-OEM market during this first quarter.
NAND flash shortage will increase SSD and eMMC prices
Ten per cent increase
Prices of SSDs and eMMC gear will increase by 10 percent next year due to a shortage of NAND flash, according to beancounters at DRAMeXchange.
Toshiba unveils OCZ VX500 series SSD
Brings TLC prices with 15nm MLC NAND
Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced its newest OCZ VX500 SATA SSD series, which will be based on a Toshiba controller, 15nm MLC NAND and promises great price/GB with MLC-performance.
DRAM prices go up
Thanks to increased notebook demand
DRAM and NAND flash memory prices are forecast to increase in the fourth quarter of 2016, with contract prices for DRAM set to rise more than 10 percent.
Samsung makes postage stamp-sized Flash SSD
Up to 512GB of NAND flash
Samsung has begun mass producing a new SSD which is smaller than a postage stamp.
NAND flash prices still falling
Fell by 10 per cent in the last quarter
Contract prices of NAND flash memory chips fell by nine to 10 per cent in the fourth quarter due to oversupply conditions.
Samsung launches its new 750 EVO SSD series
Available only in 120GB and 250GB capacities
While it was already spotted a while back, Samsung has now officially announced its new 750 EVO series which will be based on Samsung's 16nm TLC NAND and only be available in 120GB and 250GB capacities.
Toshiba off-loads chips in favour of NAND
Accounting scandle continues to bite
Toshiba is getting out the processor business so that it can concentrate on making memory as it tries to recover from its $1.3 billion accounting scandal.
IC Foundries focusing on 10nm
Half of R&D spent on new processing
More than half of the IC foundries combined R&D budgets are being spent researching 10nm, according to Applied Materials Taiwan president Erix Yu.