The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

Two decades ago Samsung took a leap in the dark. The company has always been known for breaking new ground, but at the beginning of the century it turned its attention to a storage technology that ...

Flash is often seen as a good half-way house between RAM and ROM. While RAM forgets everything stored when the power is switched off, ROM remembers everything after the power is turned off. Flash will ...

This paper presents fundamental information about NAND Flash memory used in Embedded Systems. It discusses various aspects of this storage media such as interface ...

Flash memory in enterprise applications is enabling new capabilities in enterprise storage and is an enabler of cloud storage offerings. The use of flash memory is the driving force for higher speed ...

Another term for flash memory. Since flash chips can be updated over and over, the ROM (read only) designation is somewhat misleading. "ROM" is used more to mean not volatile than not changeable. See ...

In the early days of computing, the difference between RAM and ROM was very clear. Random access memory (RAM) was designed to hold data while the computer was turned on and to lose it when the power ...

STMicroelectronics has extended its ST7 family of 8-bit microcontrollers with devices offering medium and large memory capacities and high pin count packages. The ST7232x series is aimed at the ...

Macronix International Co., Ltd. (TSE: 2337), a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, today announced the high-performance and efficiency MXSMIO™ family of ...

Today's system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs typically contain micro-controllers, digital signal processors, memories, peripherals, and physical interface connections to external devices in a single package ...