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AMD’s Spansion Bets on Serial Flash Memory

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

AMD-Fujitsu silicon subsidiary Spansion has announced backing of an emerging Flash memory standard with a new family of processors intended for the growing market of devices — from PC hard drives to onboard navigation systems for cars — that rely on the embedded Flash memory technology. Spansion said its new FL Flash chips, which use…

Study Predicts 57 Percent Growth in Digital Music Players

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in 2009 from 36.8…

Samsung, Analysts Clash Over Memory Market

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Samsung’s president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has reportedly signaled the price decline in Flash and DRAM chips is likely to subside and the cost of the memory technology — popular in portable music players, digital cameras and mobile phones — should stabilize. Analysts, however, indicated that the continued oversupply of memory chips will…

AMD Making Headway With Server Market Share

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

When AMD reported second quarter sales of US$1.26 billion and net income of $11 million buoyed by its processors, it also passed the 10 percent barrier in x86 market share for the first time in company history. According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD’s share of the x86 server processor market grew…

Intel, Micron Partner to Provide, Apple, Others With Flash Chips

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 billion over time to the…

Samsung Slims Memory Chip Stack

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

South Korean electronics and semiconductor giant Samsung claimed a three-dimensional, stacked memory chip breakthrough this week with new technology that shrinks the space needed for stacked chip layers used in mobile phones and other devices. Samsung said by stacking eight 2 gigabit NAND flash memory chips, it could deliver a smaller-footprint wafer-level processed stack package…

Freescale Puts Magnetic Memory Technology Into Play

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Freescale Semiconductor staked out an industry first with the commercial availability of its speedy, non-volatile Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology, which the Austin, Texas, company is already producing in volume. The MRAM solution joins the speed of static random access memory (SRAM) and the stability of flash memory, and could herald new classes of…

Zune Set to Hit Store Shelves on Nov. 14

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Microsoft has confirmed pricing and delivery details for its upcoming Zune MP3 music player. The software giant on Thursday revealed its 30 GB Zune digital media player will cost US$249.99. The so-called iPod killer will be available to U.S. customers on Nov. 14, just in time for the holidays. Microsoft will launch the Zune Marketplace…

IBM Boosts Development of Flash Memory Successor

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A new chip technology could encroach on flash memory and hard-disk drive market share, as a group of companies led by IBM explore phase-change memory. Big Blue,Macronix andQimonda on Monday announced joint research results that give a major boost to this new type of computer memory, which they are touting as the successor to flash…

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