Raspberry Pi has released the official M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, allowing the connection of NVMe memory drives and AI accelerators. It accepts M.2 2230 or 2242 form factors, to which it can supply up to 3A and transfer data at up to 500Mbyte/s via the Pi’s single PCIe 2.0 channel. Being compliant to the HAT+ specification means that ...
Swissbit has announced single-level cell NAND flash-based SD Cards and microSD Cards for increased reliability in industrial settings. “When it comes to reliability, data integrity and data retention, the technology with only one stored bit per cell is still unrivalled,” according to the company. “Only single-level cell offers 100,000 program-erase cycles, making it ideal for applications that require particularly robust, ...
Kioxia is sampling its newest generation of 256 and 512Gbyte 3D flash memory. Aimed at mobile applications, its ‘universal flash storage’ (UFS) version 3.1 devices “improve performance by 30% for random read and 40% for random write, making them faster than their predecessors,” according to the company, which added that, at 0.8mm, the new 256Gbyte parts are thinner than their predecessors. ...
Mouser has signed a distribution deal with GigaDevice. The Chinese company supplies SPI NOR, SPI NAND and parallel NAND flash memory products for embedded applications in the automotive, industrial, mobile computing, networking and infrastructure and consumer markets. Included in the portfolio available from Mouser is the GD25 SPI NOR flash memory family. It is available in four voltage options and ...
Kioxia claims to have developed the world’s first three-dimensional semicircular split-gate flash memory cell structure, twin BiCS flash, using floating gate (FG) cells. The firm says twin BiCS flash achieves superior program slope and a larger program/erase window at a much smaller cell size compared to conventional circular charge trap (CT) cells. These attributes make the design a candidate to ...
Hyperstone is aiming at reliable industrial flash with X1, a memory controller chip that can operate 3d NAND in SLC mode. “The X1 has been rigorously tested in sudden power fail situations and for reliability, offering superb FIT rates,” claimed the German firm. “The industrial flash controller with full SATA compliance is now in mass production.” It is a SATA ...
Pick your data security standards carefully when responding to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that will be in force in May, was the message UK memory firm Integral Memory brought with it on its first trip to Embedded World in Nuremberg. “GDPR has brought the issue of data security into sharp focus,” said Integral R&D head Patrick Warley. “System ...
Microchip SST26WF064C ‘SuperFlash’ memory offers 64Mbit with reduced power consumption by combining Dual Transfer Rate (DTR, output data on both clock edges) with what the firm claims is the industry’s fastest erase times: it “completes a typical chip erase in just 35ms”. Operating at frequencies reaching 104MHz, it also features execute-in-place (XIP), to eliminate code-shadowing on SRAM, plus a hardware-controlled ...
Flash is killing the HDD industry, reports Trendforce. Flash dollars are growing at 55% a year while HDD dollars are shrinking at 5% a year. Q2 NAND flash capacity shipped was about 35 exabytes for $13.2 billion. Q2 HDD capacity shipped was 159.5 exabytes for $5.7 billion. While shipped HDD capacity is still rising, the units and dollars are falling. ...
Toshiba is to expand production of its proprietary 3D flash non-volatile memory and has announced plans to build a wafer fabrication facility at Yokkaichi, Japan for expanded production of BiCS Flash. The production line will use artificial intelligence (AI) for the first time. The plan to build a new 3D flash facility was announced in March, and construction will now start in February 2017. The new ...
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