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Toshiba Memory Continues Investment Into Fab 6
After a troubled year, Toshiba will be selling off their memory business. According to the latest details from the sale, the Japanese conglomerate will be keeping about 40% control of Toshiba Memory. Despite the sale happening, Toshiba will still be investing a lot in memory. From the latest press release, the…
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Toshiba Sells Majority Stake In Toshiba Memory for $18 Billion
After a long journey, Toshiba has found a buyer for their memory fabs. Earlier in the month, the Japanese conglomerate turned down a Western Digital offer. The company chose instead to pick a deal with Bain Capital. Today, Toshiba revealed that they have made a deal with the Bain Capital…
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Western Digital Releases 3D QLC NAND
Western Digital is a traditional hard disk drive manufacturer. That changed with the SanDisk purchase last year. Along with the sizable flash memory business, WD also picked up a partnership with Toshiba. Earlier, Toshiba announced their new 3bit 3D Quad Level Cell NAND. Following along, Western Digital is also announcing their…
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Toshiba Packs 512GB on BG3 M.2 2230 NVMe SSD
Answering the demand for more compact client drives, Toshiba is announcing the release of the Toshiba BG3. It uses a 2230 form factor meaning it measures 22mm wide and is only 30mm long. At this compact size, the Toshiba BG3 does not have room for much but this is more…
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DRAM and NAND Supplies to Remain Low During Q3
If you’re in the market for RAM or an SSD in the coming months, prepare to pay. Memory chips are set to be in short supply during the third quarter of 2017, according to Transcend. The module maker warns that DRAM and NAND stocks will be understocked, resulting in higher…
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Toshiba Unveils 3D NAND TR200 SSDs
Toshiba is releasing its first retail 3D NAND SATA solid state drives. In fact, the TR200 SSDs use the company’s proprietary 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND. Consequently, the entry-level TR200 range is Toshiba’s successor to the OCZ Trion range. Indeed, the TR200 replaces the TR150 (aka Trion 150). However, Toshiba…
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Researchers Develop New Method to Boost SSD Speeds
Over the past 2 years, the SSD industry has been undergoing a transformation to remove the interface bottleneck. Moving past legacy ACHI in SATA3, NVMe is now the gold industry standard for SSDs. Designed from the ground up for flash storage, the new interface allows SSDs to stretch their legs. Research…
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NAND and DRAM Shortages Expected to Bite Till 2018
Over the past couple of months, DRAM and NAND prices have started to inch their way up. The price increases are caused by higher than expected demand for flash memory. Simply put, there is too much demand for the supply to keep up. Unfortunately, it looks like there is no relief…
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Toshiba Finds Buyer For Memory Bussiness
Toshiba has been in quite a spot of trouble lately. This comes after disastrous investments in nuclear power plants and an over $1 billion USD accounting mistake. Due to the series of unfortunate events, the Japanese conglomerate is hurting for cash. In an effort to raise some liquid capital, the…
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BIOSTAR Introduces New G330 Series SSD
BIOSTAR entered the SSD market with their G300 drive last fall and now the company is back with a successor and improved version called the G330. The new drive promises a 10% faster performance while maintaining the same design. BIOSTAR’s new G330 drive is built with Micron 3D TLC NAND…
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ADATA Launches XPG SX7000 PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 2280 SSD
ADATA launches a new NVMe drive called the XPG SX7000 and it is a more budget friendly drive than the recently released XPG SX8000. Where the SX8000 uses 3D MLC NAND, the new SX7000 is built with 3D TLC NAND flash instead. The 3D TLC NAND has been paired with…
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SSD Prices up as Much as 36% in Some Areas
We have all noticed that SSD prices have gone up and we’ve heard that it is due to the current NAND shortage in regards to the needed supply. A new report from the analyst firm Trendfocus now sheds some light on just how much the prices have gone up. Over…
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Apple, Amazon, and Google Seek to Buy Toshiba’s NAND Unit
At the end of last month, Toshiba’s shareholders voted to sell off the company’s NAND flash memory unit in order to cover nearly $9 billion in losses, and it has now emerged that Apple, Amazon, and Google are all considering bids for the operation. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun daily,…
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Toshiba Shareholders Agree to Sell NAND Flash Memory Unit
Most of us know Toshiba as a hardware manufacturer with products from mechanical and flash-based storage over notebooks and all the way to smart TVs, but the company is a lot bigger than that. They are also a huge player in the international Nuclear business, or maybe we should say that…
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Palit Enters SSD Market with GFS and UVS Series
Being a source of great Nvidia-based graphics cards isn’t enough for Palit and they are expanding their products to include Solid State Drives too. The company launched two new series of drives where one is aimed at the general Hard Disk Drive replacement and the second is aimed at gamers…
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