Tag archive: Micron

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory chip maker Micron Technology, died today after suffering fatal injuries in a plane crash at the Boise Airport in Idaho. He was 51. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident in Boise,” the company said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this… Read More

A San Francisco County Superior Court jury has ruled against former memory maker Rambus in its long-running antitrust case against memory makers Micron and Hynix, finding that neither Micron or Hynix conspired to fix the price of memory chips, or conspired with other manufacturers like Intel and Samsung to keep Rambus from gaining traction in the market. The jury's vote was nine to three after more than eight weeks of deliberation, and… Read More

If we can't make batteries last longer, maybe we should make electronics that require less energy, a lot less. In its new quest to combat ARM in the mobile market, Intel has taken up this mission. On Sept. 15, the chipmaker unveiled and demonstrated a new microprocessor capable of running on “near-threshold voltage (NTV),” which means it can run on almost the bare minimum amount of power required to turn on transistors and… Read More

Chipmaking giant Intel and memory developer Micron have announced they have produced a new 20 nm process for producing 20 nm NAND flash memory. Most flash storage on the market today uses either 32nm or 25nm processes: the 20nm process means the folks who make everything from smartphones to tablets to portable game systems to solid-state drives can put more storage capacity in less space inside the device—and tap into it all using less… Read More

Micron Technology has announced a deal to acquire flash memory maker Numonyx in an all-stock deal valued at $1.27 billion. Micron is already the largest memory chip manufacturer in the United States, and Numonyx is the world's largest maker of NOR flash memory—NOR flash memory is historically more common in cell phones, while NAND flash memory is usually used in SSDs, PMPs, and devices like the iPhone. “We believe the… Read More

Micron announced the RealSSD C300 with 6Gbps SATA support early in December. It partnered with the Marvell Technology Group to create a new proprietary controller that will be used exclusively with Micron's latest generation of SSDs. The controller supports the use of ONFI 2.1 34nm NAND flash memory sourced from IMFT, Micron's joint venture with Intel. The drive is able to reach a sustained sequential read speed of 355 MB/s, and a… Read More

Storage and memory maker Micron has announced its new RealSSD C300 solid-state drive, which the company claims is the first to employ a 6Gb/s SATA interface—twice as fast as the normal 3Gb/s SATA interfaces in typical drives. The RealSSD C300 can push data to storage at up to 215 MB/s and read data at up to 335 MB/s, which pushes the performance envelop for SSD drives well into the high range of all large capacity storage media.… Read More

While companies like OCZ Technology and Samsung have been busy slashing prices on their solid-state drives, Micron has been ingoring the dollar factor and pushing performance to new extremes for business applications. The latest drives in its RealSSD line, the P200 and C200, boost speed, cut power consumption, and increase reliability from the last generation. The P200, available in capacities between 16GB and 128GB, has been… Read More

With companies like SanDisk, Samsung and Lexar already waist-deep in the market for solid-state drives (SSDs), competing manufacturer Micron Technology finally made the plunge on Thursday. Micron’s RealSSD line of drives will come in capacities up to 64GB and in both 1.8-inch and 2.4-inch sizes. Even in comparison to other SSDs, Micron advertises the speed, reduced power consumption, and low weight of its drives. Performance is… Read More

Micron's DIMM has been fashioned to meet 184-pin PC1600 and PC2100 DDR SDRAM standards. Micron used 1-Gbit DDR-266 SDRAMs in 400-mil thin small outline packages (TSOP), Micron said. Although Intel is a manufacturer of microprocessors rather than computers, the company develops systems architectures complete with buses, recommended memory components and peripheral logic chipsets. Intel provides the specifications for computer makers to… Read More