Memory Digest - September 2011

September 2011

Choosing the Best SSD for Read-Intensive Enterprise Applications

It used to be easy to select a solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise application when the number of SSDs on the market and the types of applications they were designed for was very limited.

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Forecast sees hard year, fewer chip makers

According to the fall forecast from IC Insights, next year semiconductor growth will nudge toward double-digit growth, and long term a consolidating industry should be able to sustain modest expansions.

Elpida completes 25nm 4Gb memory development

ELPIDA has completed development of the memory industry’s first 25nm process 4Gb DDR3 SDRAM, which is also dimensionally the smallest 4Gb DRAM.

Revalued Yen Compels Elpida to Source from Taiwan

In efforts to minimize the impact of wild appreciation of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar and festering collapse of DRAM price, Elpida executives recently decided to move part of the production at its Hiroshi Island to Rexchip, which has cost advantage.

Nanya Tech Cuts Output to Counter DRAM Oversupply

Nanya will follow Elpida and PowerChip and take steps to cut down outputs suit this month in a bid to ease excessive supplies of commodity DRAM chips.

Samsung starts production of 20-nano class DRAM, flash memories

Samsung said it has started to mass-produce memory chips based on 20-nanometer class technology in a move to cement its leadership and weather an industry-wide downturn.

Getting to grips with SSD performance

SSD performance can drop off precipitately once the drive has gone through a few writes, erases, and re-writes because the FOB performance can bear no relation to the steady state performance.

Apple increases purchases of DRAM, NAND flash from Japan

In a move to reduce its reliance on memory supplies from Samsung Electronics, Apple has procured more NAND flash parts from Toshiba, and mobile RAM from Elpida, the sources indicated.

Solid-State Storage Technology Favored by IT Departments: IBM Report

A survey of 250 U.S. IT professionals conducted by IBM indicates that high-performance SSDs are being considered to support growing data storage demands driven by cloud computing and analytics technologies.

Samsung begins new NAND flash memory chip operations

With a move that may further exacerbate semiconductor oversupply and hit smaller rivals, Samsung Electronics had started producing chips using a new 20-nanometre class processing technology.

Microsoft’s Hotmail Gets a New Storage System

Microsoft says the new Hotmail storage system will use SSDs to handle features that would normally take most of a hard drives activity.