Altima E2A3GM 832GB 2.5-inch Flash SSD
BiTMICRO Networks announced an 832GB version of the E-Disk® Altima(tm) SATA flash SSD in 2.5-inch form factor. E-Disk® Altima(tm) E2A3GM flash SSD will utilize the multi-level cell (MLC) type of NAND flash, which doubles the number of bits stored per memory cell compared to the single-level cell (SLC) NAND, effectively increasing data density at low [...]
Samsung MLC 128G Solid State Drives
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has developed a multi-level cell (MLC) flash-based 128 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for mobile applications, notebooks, and desktop PCs. The new drive offers a data writing speed of 70 megabytes per second (MB/s), the industry's highest for MLC-based SSDs. Samsung expects to begin mass [...]
Samsung Compact Flash Size Spinpoint A1 Hard Drives
Samsung's Spinpoint A1 30GB and 40GB hard disk drives (HDD) are tiny. Real tiny. Tiny as in Compact Flash tiny. The new drives feature significantly higher storage capacity than conventional memory cards, high shock resistance, and low power consumption. The Spinpoint A1 HDDs are ideal for mobile consumer devices and will fit within the dimensions [...]
Lambda Announces Lifetime Power Supply Warranty
Here's something you don't encounter too often. Today, Lambda Europe announced it is offering a lifetime warranty on its HWS series of industrial power supplies. Previously, the HWS series came with a 5 year warranty. The full range of models from 15W to 1500W, including "HD" heavy duty and "ME" medically approved versions are covered [...]
STi7111 HD Set-Top-Box Decoder
The STi7111, from STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), is a new single-chip high-definition set-top box decoder that combines both the demodulation and decoding functions on a single device. The decoder is designed to meet the requirements of major satellite operators worldwide, including DIRECTV. The new chip enables OEMs to target the high-volume market for consumers moving to high-definition [...]
Vishay SiP21301 Linear Regulator Controller
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) created an LDO controller (SiP21301) with adjustable and fixed output voltage options that uses external n-channel MOSFETs to provide extremely low drop-out voltages of under 50 mV at very high currents, up to 7 A, with 80% efficiency. The SiP21301 device is optimized for driving n-channel MOSFETs to power FPGAs, [...]
Texas Instruments TPS61165 High Brightness White LED Driver
The new TPS61165, from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), is a high-brightness LED driver with an integrated 40-V, 1.2-A switch that can drive up to three 1-W LEDs in series. The device features an input voltage range of 3-V to 18-V, which enables designers to efficiently manage multiple high-power LEDs used in single-cell, battery-powered [...]
Measurement Specialties Acquires Intersema for $39.7 Million
Measurement Specialties, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEAS) has acquired the outstanding capital stock of Intersema for approximately $39.7 million in cash and notes, plus an additional $17.3 million if certain performance thresholds are achieved. MEAS acquired approximately $9.6 million in cash as part of the transaction. The transaction closed December 28, 2007. Intersema Sensoric, which is located [...]
Nextreme Copper Pillar Bump for Flip Chip Packaging
Nextreme has integrated cooling and power generation into the widely accepted copper pillar bumping process used in high-volume electronic packaging. The innovation in flip chip process technology addresses two of the most serious issues in electronics today – thermal and power management constraints. Nextreme's approach uses proven, fully scalable technology to deliver new, enabling functionality [...]
Semiconductor Shipments to Reach $262 Billion
According to Semico, continued demand for communications and portable computing devices with innovative new features will drive purchases this year and help to boost sales of the semiconductors used in these products. Semico sees continued strong demand for communications and portable computing devices influenced by three factors: cell phones are adding computer-like functions; handheld devices [...]
Intel Plays with NAND and NOR Flash
Intel has been a leader in NOR Flash for over a decade. According to In-Stat, Intel is now moving aggressively in the NAND Flash market. The company is making significant investments in NAND to support its goal of becoming one of the top players in this business.
According to an In-Stat analyst, Intel is participating in [...]
One Billion Wi-Fi Chipsets to Ship in 2012
According to ABI Research, the Wi-Fi semiconductor market shipped almost 200 million Wi-Fi chipsets in 2006 and reached over 500 million chipset shipments cumulatively. Their research indicates that around the middle of 2008, the industry will have passed the one billion mark for cumulative chipset shipments.
The ABI Research's Wi-Fi IC database provides historical and forecast [...]
VoIP IC Market
The VoIP IC market is growing and shifting, according to In-Stat. In the next several years, wireless and video will play stronger roles. In-Stat believes VoIP will eventually be just another application on the IP network. VoIP chips will simply disappear at the network level.
Other findings by In-Stat:
VoIP chip revenues from IP phones will grow [...]
SD Memory Cards
Over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog is an excellent post about SD memory cards. I wished I read the post before I bought a SD card. Here's a brief summary of the post:
The Name
SD stands for Secure Digital, but no one ever bother to make it secure. However, the name stuck anyway. SD cards [...]
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