SanDisk is one of the leading designers and manufacturers of NAND flash storage solutions.
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WD's innovative hybrid technology pairs MLC NAND flash storage for fast SSD-like data throughput and instant-on responsiveness with magnetic disks for efficient, high-capacity storage.
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The increased use of flash memory storage has lead to new storage interfaces that can take advantage of the higher data rates that NAND flash based digital storage can provide.
Texas Memory (a private company) has provided high end Tier 0 DRAM and more recently Tier 0 and Tier 1 NAND flash-based storage systems since 1978.
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Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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Demand for high-performance 3-bit MLC NAND flash and 128Gb high storage capacities has been rapidly increasing, driving the adoption of SSDs with more than 250GB data storage, led by the Samsung SSD 840 Series.
Hybrid hard drives combine NAND flash and magnetic disks, simplifying storage-element integration for OEM customers and providing a host of end user benefits: superior performance, responsiveness, lower power consumption, greater operating shock tolerance, and data protection.
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In addition, as useful amounts of flash memory storage are now affordable, the ruggedness of flash memory and the ability to stack chips to provide slim package designs have made NAND flash the choice non-volatile storage technology for mobile devices.
Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip.
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Thin client (lower storage capacity and processing power) products such as smart phones and tablets would greatly benefit from the larger storage capacity that 20 nm NAND flash will provide.
The combination storage offering will combine 128 GB of NAND flash memory with either a 1 TB or 3 TB hard disk drive (HDD).
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Samsung started production of 10nm-class 64Gb MLC NAND flash memory in November last year, and in less than five months, has added the new 128Gb NAND flash to its wide range of high-density memory storage offerings.
The top-of-the-line Sanshara drives employ synchronous NAND technology and deliver the best speed and performance available in flash-based storage.
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"The iPhone is a big factor in rejuvenating a lot of the NAND market and the flash market in general, " says Alan Niebel, chief executive officer at memory and storage researcher Web-Feet Research in Monterey, Calif.
The Seagate Desktop SSHD features up to 2TB of massive capacity and 8GB of NAND Flash making it ideal for accelerating the most commonly used PC applications and delivering extreme desktop performance with all the storage capacity needed for any computing scenario.
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