Samsung shows off 20nm PRAM
Outperforms NAND based SSDs and is compatible with NOR flash.
Samsung unveiled the first 20nm PRAM part at ISSCC in San Francisco last week.
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DDR4 shows up in the wild
And of course it is faster and better than DDR3.
The first two DDR4 chips come from South Korea.
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SanDisk develops the world’s smallest 128Gb flash chip
The new NAND flash chip measures just 170mm².
SanDisk’s well known X3 technology giving 3 bits per flash cell…
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Aussies create single atom transistor with precise control
smaller, smaller, smaller...
New paper describes advances from previous stage where the control was imprecise.
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Chinese 16 core CPU uses message passing
Gone are the old days of massive shared memory architectures.
During the first day of ISSCC in San Francisco research from Fudan University…
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Danish researchers invent 2nm components
2nm!
So far a diode has been constructed, and the next step is a transistor.
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Chinese CPU shines in $89 tablet
It’s not quite an iPad, but the price is right for an awful lot of customers.
Last month Chinese manufacturer Ainol launched a 7” tablet based on the Chinese microprocessor JZ4770 developed by Ingenic in Beijing.
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Elpida takes ReRAM to prime time
Expects to have Gigabit chips ready by next year.
Elpida (TYO:6665) has already developed an experimental ReRAM (Resistive RAM) chip…
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IEEE 802.11ac devices start shipping
Buffalo first with range of products delivering up to 1.5Gbps.
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Baolab does MEMS in CMOS
Will allow integration in traditional CMOS chips
Baolab Nanosystems out of Barcelona, Spain has developed a way to design and manufacture MEMS devices in plain vanilla CMOS ….
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LucidLogix does GPU virtualization
Virtualization can improve performance by up to 200 percent, the company claims.
Israeli graphics company LucidLogix is showing off its GPU virtualization software XLR8 at CES this week.
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Imagination releases new graphics cores
New cores are the first in the Series 6 family formerly known as Rogue
Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) may not be a name that is immediately familiar to you…
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Memory cards get faster and bigger
The race is on for ever larger capacities and faster speeds.
XDHC reaches 128GB and super fast XQD card from Sony shows up for the first time.
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OCZ taps Marvell for blazingly fast SSD controller
Now using native PCIe to NAND interface to avoid the SATA bottleneck
OCZ (NASDAQ:OCZ) will this week be showing off its latest enterprise SSD at CES.
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Lenovo launches hybrid ThinkPad
Only one question remains: Do you really want one?
It sounds almost too good to be true, but Lenovo (HKG:0992) is launching an X1….
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