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PC maker Gateway has signed a five year multi-billion supply deal with Micron Technology to ensure a steady supply of memory chips, just days after a similar deal between Compaq […]

Semiconductor300 is shipping 64Mbit DRAMs made on 300mm wafers to customers just nine months after the fab in Dresden, Germany processed its first integrated lot. Semiconductor300 is a joint venture […]

* On 27 July, Epson announced no fewer than 25 new products, designed to increase its market share in the home and office markets. These include seven new colour inkjet […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - With the horrendous, only recently ended meltdown in memory chips still fresh in its mind, Hitachi Ltd. has decided to sharply pull in its horns and […]

PROFESSOR Ted Williams at Keele University has developed a solid state memory system capable of squeezing 3.4terabytes of data into a device no larger than a credit card. The system […]

As if burn-in test-socket makers didn't have it tough enough, emerging Rambus memory chips are pushing test frequencies into the gigahertz range and pin pitches to as small as 0.5 […]

San Jose-Lexar Media Inc. last week filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California charging SanDisk Corp. with false advertising, unfair competition, trade libel […]

Boss: Beginning in three months, we'll be making our products available to markets in Europe and Asia. We'll need all of our 'getting started' guides, tutorials, user documentation, advanced system [...]

Arthur C. Clarke famously said, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' Well, there's a new technology becoming more popular that is almost magical both in how it works [...]

Procam Television has been one of the first rental companies that provided tapeless cameras to the broadcast market. The finish off into the edit is much quicker than tape when using tapeless cameras but the memory card is also costlier than tape. Insights on the proper handling of the tapeless cameras are also given.

The phone rings in the middle of the night, waking up the crime scene investigator and summoning him to a crime scene just outside of town. As he approaches the [...]

Q How do manufacturers keep packing more gigabytes of space onto smaller and smaller SD cards? A WE HAD AN IDEA on this one. A hypothesis, as the science-minded might [...]

There were a number of devices announced at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 (CES) last month that were impressive enough for us to relax our usual rule of only covering [...]

Sony's SxS PRO media, with transfer speeds of up to 800Mb/second, enables film-makers to store up to an hour of digital video. SxS PRO addresses the capture and editing needs that require faster turnaround times. Other information and views on the Sony SxS PRO media, are also presented.

GETTING A RISE OUT OF YOUR PC My new computer does not have enough expansion slots to suit my needs, and the PC maker tells me that I need a […]

There's no point in lugging along a laptop on your vacation just so you can archive or organize your digital pictures. A laptop not only adds weight and heft, but […]

Insiders stealing relatively large amounts of data on tiny USB memory sticks have already made the ubiquitous devices a potent security threat. But the emergence of flash drives capable of […]

You can never have enough memory or have it in enough places. Here are five ways to store more stuff. 1 PORTABLE DIGITAL PICTURES Digital Foci Picture Porter (http://rbi.ims.ca/4401-541). Download […]

SanDisk Corp. is launching a secure media format with 'A Bigger Bang.' The new Virgin Records album from the Rolling Stones is the first release on SanDisk's new Gruvi Music [...]

Although Samsung seems to be working on almost all potential varieties of new memory, it's talking with the most enthusiasm about its version of resistive memory. This discussion suggests Samsung's […]

Flash Memory Cards have taken their place in the photo industry as the 'digital film' of the early 21st Century. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and capacities--adding [...]

You know you're an old fogy when you tell stories of the dinner plate-size disks we used in the early eighties. Ours were about 10 inches across and held just [...]

Everyone agrees it's becoming a networked world, but not everyone agrees on how to implement all this networking in a simple fashion. Having multiple devices on a network is one [...]

Flash drives are small devices that store data like the memory cards for digital cameras or the ultra-portable drives that can plug directly into the computer's port. They are convenient to use but also are vulnerable to dirt, electrical charges and so should be used cautiously with a back-up for the memory.