• last one standing...

    After Adobe officially killed Flash Player for mobile, the next shoe to drop was how the companies that had previously touted it would respond. The first has chimed in, as RIM told All Things D that it would continue to develop the Flash plug-in on the…
  • The whole new world of Internet Explorer 10 (Part II)

    Missed the First Part? Rebuffing Advertisers Do Not Track indicates to online advertisers and other stats gatherers that they wish to remain private. Every request sent to a Web server includes a header to show the user's explicit desire to remain private…
  • The whole new world of Internet Explorer 10 (Part I)

    Windows 8 Release Preview includes the sixth release preview of Internet Explorer 10. After several years of beating the drum of standards compliance and freedom from plugins, Internet Explorer 10 has surprised many with the integration of Adobe Flash…
  • SST Unveils World's First Low-Voltage, High-Speed Quad I/O Serial Flash Memory

    NEWS RELEASE For More Information Contact: Ricky Gradwohl Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. 408/720-6512 rgradwohl@sst.com SUNNYVALE, CALIF., NOVEMBER 2, 2009 – SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) (NASDAQ: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology…
  • Samsung begins mass producing next generation embedded memory

    eMMC PRO 5.0 chips... 10 times faster than "class 10" SD cards. (via Samsung) Samsung produces NAND memory chips that are integrated into many of today's consumer electronics products. In fact, it has only been a mere eight months since they released…
  • Heat to heal solid state memory, 10k to 1 billion read write cycles

    Heat flash! Current through the gate layer creates heat that "heals" the oxide layer. (via Macronix and IEEE) Spintronic memory may take over in the future, but until then, we need to extend the life of what we do have available. Flash memory is some…
  • LANES Develops a Molybdenite-Graphene “flexible” Flash Memory Prototype

    Molybdenite-Graphene flash memory concept and images. (via EPFL & ACS.org ) A little over a year ago, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) at EPFL created the first ever molybdenite chip. The new chip…
  • Samsung to make fastest NAND to date

    Samsung NAND promotional image (via Samsung) Just recently Samsung has stated that it has begun production of their fastest embedded memory for mobile devices. The Samsung Embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) Pro Class 1500 will become available in 16, 32…
  • Chemical engineers from the University of Cambridge push phase-change to record speeds

    Phase-change non-volatile memory structure concept (via University of Cambridge) Chemical engineers from the University of Cambridge recently released a paper detailing a significant increase in speed for phase-change non-volatile memory (PCRAM). Phase…
  • STMicroelectronics new chip improves phone flash

    STCF04 (via STMicroelectronics) Taking decent indoor pictures with a smartphone is almost impossible in low light conditions. Think about it; most of the time you have to take the same picture at least twice. The first one was blurry, and the second pic…
  • Get 128Gb smaller than ever, using high-k materials

    Intel-Micron 20nm NAND memory at 128Gb (via Intel) A joint Intel-Micron project brings 128Gb of data in a fingertip size package. The team is boasting the possibility of a Terabit through stacking 8 of these chips. Micron's development venture IM Flash…