News tagged with memory storage

Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Gadgets: Picks from the PhotoPlus Expo

This past weekend at the 2009 PDN PhotoPlus Expo, companies from all over showed off the latest and greatest in digital photography gear. Here is a sampling of items that caught my attention while walking the floor at the ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron’s charge. Scientists now have discovered ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Beep, beep, oops, what was I doing? (w/ Video)

"That blasted siren. I can't focus." That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person's low working-memory capacity, according to a new study.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

A Glimpse of the Future MEMS-based Storage: Totally Green & Thumbnail Size

The University of Twente--Enschede, The Netherlands published newly conferred PhD Mohammed Ghiath Khatib's thesis, "MEMS-based Storage Devices: Integration in Energy-Constrained Mobile System". The new MEMS, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 0 weblog

A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 12

16 Gb SanDisk Netbook SDHC: More Storage for Your Netbook

SanDisk today announced the SanDisk Netbook SDHC removable flash memory card, offering consumers an easy way to significantly increase their netbooks' storage capacity. Consumers simply insert the SanDisk ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Test for early Alzheimer's in late development

(AP) -- A research institute devoted to Alzheimer's and related diseases has teamed up with a major maker of diagnostic tests to speed development of what could be the first test to detect Alzheimer's in its early stages.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lenovo Intros Its First 12-Inch Netbook: IdeaPad S12

Lenovo today announced the IdeaPad S12, the company's first 12-inch netbook. The new netbook brings users the next level in netbook computing with improved usability and performance. Enhancements include a ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0