AMD teams with UK firm to tackle big data storage
AMD will combine Xyratex's OneStor family of data storage systems and its SeaMicro SM15000 server to provide more than five petabytes of storage capacity in two racks for big data applications
Memory
Electronics patent of the month: Secure storage on memory sticks
It's hard to hear the phrases, “Your mission, should you decide to accept it” or “this tape will self-destruct in five seconds” without bringing to mind Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt (or for the older readers, Dan Briggs or Jim Phelps) of the Mission: Impossible series. Since the dawn of time, man has developed ingenious ways of sending secret messages around the globe and cryptography has come along way since the Atbash and Julius Caesar's cipher.
New NV memories to be $1.6bn market in 2018.
MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement.
Micron shrinks NAND with three bits per cell
The memory device uses a triple-level-cell (TLC) design which stores three bits of information per cell
Silicon Motion has USB3.0 flash drive chip for Windows To Go
This means a Windows To Go workspace can be booted from a USB flash drive on any PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8
Fast cards from Toshiba
In the Spring, Toshiba will launch a range of CompactFlash memory cards for SLR cameras with the highest read and write speeds in the world..
Micron ships PCM to Nokia
Micron says it is shipping 'high volume' 1Gbit phase change memory to Nokia.
TI has flash memory for high temperature operation
Texas Instruments has introduced a non-volatile flash memory device designed for use at high temperatures and in harsh environments