A standards group hopes to develop a memory card format called UFS. It'll face some obstacles getting to market, but may succeed embedded in mobile phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Amid falling prices and an inventory glut, yet another flash memory format is trying to rise above an increasingly crowded market. Panasonic's Secure Digital, which was co-developed with SanDisk and ...

Amid falling prices and an inventory glut, yet another flash memory format is trying to rise above an increasingly crowded market. Panasonic's Secure Digital, which was co-developed with SanDisk and ...

Flash memory has evolved from a single EPROM replacement to an integral part of many systems. The development tool's importance has increased with the application's complexity. Only a handful of ...

In many ways, flash memory has become the darling of the storage industry. Not only do a huge variety of devices use flash for basic data storage, we're already seeing movement towards both SSDs ...

Sony, which has been trying to grab the flash-memory market for nearly three years, is finally making some progress. The consumer electronics giant initially introduced the removable flash-memory card ...

There are numerous flash card formats. This section will give a brief overview of the predominant types. These two cards offer the same electrical interface, but have different form factors. The ...

Selecting the right amount of flash memory for an embedded application can be challenging. You want to make sure that you have enough memory to protect for future features, firmware updates, and more.

Flash memory is ubiquitous, especially in mobile devices. Available in a wide range of form factors, it continues to push hard-disk drives from more and more platforms as its costs go down and ...