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SK Hynix gets China approval to take over Intel’s NAND business 

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix said on Wednesday it has received merger clearance from the Chinese antitrust authority for its $9 billion acquisition of Intel Corp’s NAND and SSD (solid-state drive

Intel agrees to sell its NAND business to SK Hynix for $9 billion

SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest chip makers, announced today it will pay $9 billion for Intel’s flash memory business. Intel said it will use proceeds from the deal to focus on artificial int

Toshiba hits 128GB with new NAND flash memory

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/toshiba_nand.jpg" /> Expect your smartphone, digital camera or tablet computer to get a big spec bump in the near future: Toshiba today

Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ssd_keio.jpg" /> SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make the

Better MultiMediaCards: Toshiba announces world's first 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/toshiba_nand.jpg" /> Toshiba has announced <a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2009_12/pr1501.htm">today</a> the launch of the

CEATEC 2008: Toshiba presents the world's first 16 GB microSDHC memory card

Toshiba is currently showcasing a  prototype of a 16-Gbyte microSDHC memory card at the CEATEC 2008, doubling the maximum capacity of currently available products. The company said it managed to sque

Apple Causing Flash Memory Prices To Jump

Remember how about a year ago, the big news was that NAND flash memory prices were dropping and iPods were getting cheaper? Yeah, well thanks to the iPhone and new iPods that are due out later this ye

Samsung Unveils Hybrid NAND/HD Drive for Laptops

Samsung has something interesting in the MH80-series laptop hard drives. As the industry starts turning its eyes towards NAND-based flash drives for portables instead of standard disc-based drives, Sa

Wu: Apple Going Solid State for All iPods, Portables?

According to Apple Insider, the HDD-based iPod will soon be a think of the past. After analyzing Apple’s NAND flash-based storage supply chain, Shaw Wu at American Technology Research has conclu

Keane to Release Next Single on Thumb Drive

By now, CDs are a passe way to buy music. Soooo 2001, really. And iTunes, or BitTorrent? Please. If you really want to get your music the modern way, apparently you buy it on TD (thumb drive). And tha

Samsung Intros SSD-Based Notebook

Samsung goodness just keeps rolling along. In Korea, the manufacturer of all things slick has announced it’s going to put Solid State Drive notebooks into production, and already have the specs

TDK Hits 32GB With NAND

TDK has announced that it’s reached a capacity of 32GB with its new IDE compatible NAND Flash memory. The Flash disk is roughly 20 percent smaller in size than a standard 2.4-inch notebook drive

Samsung's New NAND

Samsung has developed a new form of NAND memory with greatly improved capacity and performance. It’s dubbed Phase-change Random Access Memory (PRAM) and it currently only exists in prototype for

PQI Turbo Industrial 32GB SSD

PQI Turbo Industrial has announced the release of its new 32GB solid state drive. It utilizes Samsung NANDs for its storage. The drive comes in 2.5″ or 1.5″ sizes. It is currently compatib