At the Flash Memory Summit in August, Samsung presented thier offering on UFS interface Flash. The UFS interface (Universal Flash Storage) is a new memory multi-device specification for both embedded and removable memory. The specification is based on performance in IOPS rather than MB/s as the driver. The initial release is a poit to point…
At the Flash Memory Summit, Sandisk discussed their participation in the new consortium for HQME – High Quality Mobile Experience . The group was formed to discuss and standardize the QOE for the deliery and viewing of mobile content. The statistics are that 60% of the net capacity of mobile networks is used for mobile video…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Bill Nesheim from the hardware group at Oracle made comments on the use of flash in enterprise applications. Not everything is faster with flash, and enterprises may have other overriding requirements. In the enterprise, flash can optimize the performance of databases and storage platforms. Last year, companies…
August 9, 2011, Flash Memory Summit Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Yoran Cedar, CTO at SanDisk, look at the future prognosis for the flush industry. New devices, applications, and platforms are driving increases in the overall market. On one end of the spectrum, social networking and cloud services are driving the use of more flash at the…
For more than 20 years, flash memory has enabled the creation of new markets such as digital photography, digital music and portable high-capacity data storage. Now, flash-based solid state drive (SSD) technology is poised to drive significant changes in the mobile and PC computing industries (Fig. 1). Figure 1:Examples of new markets enabled by flash…
February 25, 2011-Milpitas, CA-we recently sat down with Doreet Oren, director of product marketing at SanDisk, to talk about trends and industry drivers in the CE space. The major trends for portable computers is towards thinner, lighter, and longer battery life. At the same time, phones are moving up to have larger screens and higher…
December 8, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – At the annual International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) the latest in technology for memory technology and optical sensors was displayed. For the past 56 years the conference has been the place where technology and manufacturing scaling was presented for the semiconductor industry. This years event was highlighted…
January 5, 2011, Storage Visions, Las Vegas — digital storage is becoming crucial to product design in consumer electronics. The panel comprised of moderator Guy Finley from Media and Entertainment Services Alliance, Dave Reinsel from IDC, Ho Seong Lee from Samsung Electronics, Tony Kim from Samsung Semiconductor, Kishore Rao from Intel, Robert Pierce from Cadence…