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Articles on the recent flurry in storage technology, including non-volatile and volatile storage, are archived in this tech room. This section also features articles on memory chips, memory modules, storage devices, and flash and disk drives.

Market Watch

Memory consolidation still up in the air
Everyone seems to agree the memory IC market needs another round of consolidation, but so far, none of the leading suppliers are showing any signs of exiting the sector despite spiraling losses and increasingly negative cash flows.

New Products
•	Flash capacitor chargers tout output circuit protection (2008-05-09)
•	Simtek boosts nvSRAM portfolio with 8Mbit family (2008-05-07)
•	Automotive memory products withstand extreme heat (2008-05-01)
•	DDR memory controller ups efficiency by 20% (2008-04-29)
•	DRAMs get beefed up (2008-04-24)
•	Impinj debuts 'few-time' non-volatile memory IP (2008-04-24)
•	Low-latency DDR2 SO-DIMM targets notebook market (2008-04-23)
•	2.5-inch, 320GB HDD features automatic hardware-based encryption (2008-04-23)
•	TI announces full production release of DDR3 register (2008-04-23)
•	Enterprise drive stores 450Gbyte of data (2008-04-22)
•	FRAM chip records data sans MCU (2008-04-21)
•	Storage services processors aim at high-volume iSCSI apps (2008-04-17)
•	1,600MHz HyperX DDR3 goes to mainstream market (2008-04-17)
•	ST beefs up on-chip flash of ARM-based MCUs (2008-04-15)
•	Ramtron debuts 'first' 2Mbit FRAM (2008-04-14)
	More Buffer/Storage New Products

News & Trends
•	ARM to trump Intel in MID design-ins (2008-05-09)
•	LSI, Dell, Seagate demo 'first' 6Gbit/s SAS interoperability (2008-05-08)
•	Report: NAND flash glut turns for the worse in Q1 (2008-05-08)
•	IM Flash delays production at Singapore plant (2008-05-07)
•	IBM, Google join hands on 'cloud computing' (2008-05-06)
•	HP Labs proves 4th element in electronic circuits (2008-05-06)
•	Samsung stays on top of DRAM rankings (2008-05-05)
•	Winbond shareholders approve logic IC biz spinoff (2008-05-05)
•	SIA: Q1 08 semiconductor sales rose 3.8% y-on-y (2008-05-05)
•	SMIC drops DRAM biz amidst losses (2008-05-02)
•	Samsung sees huge surge in Blu-ray demand (2008-05-02)
•	Work underway on mobile DRAM interface spec (2008-05-02)
•	MLC adds muscle to NAND (2008-05-01)
•	Samsung details $27.9B investment plans (2008-05-01)
•	Defining the memory's role in a secured environment (2008-05-01)
	More Buffer/Storage News & Trends

Technical Archives
•	Developing mechatronic systems (2008-04-01)
•	Choosing DDR memory power supply IC (2008-02-18)
•	Interfacing FPGAs to DDR3 SDRAM (2008-02-01)
•	Usher next-gen computing via hybrid drives (2007-12-17)
•	Discover new SRAM options in embedded designs (2007-12-03)
•	Improve high-speed USB in multimedia handsets (2007-10-01)
•	Simplify DDR validation with SI methods (2007-09-17)
•	Build reliable flash for car infotainment (2007-09-03)
•	DRAM advancements fuel higher performance (2007-08-01)
•	Manage mixed voltages in mem card interfaces (2007-08-01)
•	Pinpoint best approach to digital video apps (2007-07-16)
•	New flash memory tech challenges floating gate (2007-05-16)
•	MRAM puts new spin on process, fab strategy (2007-05-01)
•	Current DRAMs step up computing apps (2007-02-16)
•	Close the gap between USB, plug-in DAQs (2007-01-01)
	More Buffer/Storage Technical Archives

Application Notes
•	Using Micron MT29F2G08AACWP NAND flash memory in Toshiba TC58NVG1S3BTG00 apps (2008-05-07)
•	Using a timer and I/O pins to interface 8051 MCUs with I²C serial EEPROMs (2008-05-02)
•	Interfacing baseline PIC MCUs with UNI/O bus-compatible serial EEPROMs (2008-05-01)
•	Row boundary crossing functionality in CellularRAM memory (2008-04-30)
•	AAT3172 flash programming techniques using the AS²Cwire serial interface (2008-04-29)
•	USB mass storage class on an embedded host (2008-04-28)
•	Compact flash (CF) support on the DVEVM (2008-04-25)
•	Using a USB flash drive with an embedded host (2008-04-01)
•	Using C30 compiler and the SPI module to interface EEPROMs with dsPIC33F and PIC24F (2008-03-31)
•	USB mass storage class on an embedded device (2008-03-24)
•	The DS8007 and smart card interface fundamentals (2008-03-11)
•	RLDRAM II clocking strategies (2008-03-10)
•	Using Micron asynchronous PSRAM with ADI ADSP-BF53x Blackfin processors (2008-02-19)
•	Using the DS8007 in smart card transactions (2008-02-14)
•	Implementing file I/O functions using Microchip's memory disk drive file system library (2007-10-02)
	More Buffer/Storage Application Notes

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Top Ranked Articles

•	HP Labs proves 4th element in electronic circuits
•	IBM, Google join hands on 'cloud computing'
•	Samsung stays on top of DRAM rankings
•	Work underway on mobile DRAM interface spec
•	SMIC drops DRAM biz amidst losses
•	Automotive memory products withstand extreme heat
•	MLC adds muscle to NAND
•	Spansion enters memory cross-licensing deal with IBM
•	Analysis: Infineon can't quite shake off Qimonda
•	iSuppli: Worst may be over for DRAM suppliers
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