Flash memory, born from a 1980s lab challenge by engineer Fujio Masuoka, revolutionized data storage. This nonvolatile ...

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Why serial NAND flash memory is an alternative to serial NOR flash memory. What kinds of applications are targeted by each memory type? Serial NOR flash memory has been a mainstay in low-pin ...

Company says it has made a $500 million prepayment to Toshiba for flash memory chips and indicates that the market is stabilizing. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest “slump” in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend — demand would “hot up,” as the Brits ...

Why many commonly held beliefs about 3D flash memory are inaccurate. Details about some of the challenges that 3D flash memory faces as it continues to evolve. Insights into how adding layers affects ...