Sure, Toshiba is in the memory game but at that time I was focused on DRAM.
In the past, Apple has relied on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom, flash memory from Toshiba, and gyroscopes and accelerometers from ST Micro.
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Toshiba's new memory element advances the company's pioneering work in STT-MRAM and overcomes the longstanding operating trade-off by securing improved speed while reducing power consumption by 90 percent.
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
During the period Masuoka was with Toshiba, the NAND flash memory business did not make big money.
Unfortunately, it appears that like the 3D memory concepts from Toshiba, Samsung and Hitachi along with things like spintronics may set the future standards.
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"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.
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The big players in digital camera flash memory are Sandisk and Toshiba .
Going forward Toshiba expects to bring the new memory element to STT-MRAM cache memory for mobile processors integrated into smartphones and tablet PCs, and will promote accelerated research and development toward that end.
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Liebman Memorial Award in recognition of his invention of flash memory while he worked at Toshiba.
In early 2012 Toshiba and SanDisk announced that their flash memory production was moving to 19 nm line widths.
Four months after he joined Toshiba in 1971, Masuoka, who had just received a doctorate from Tohoku University, invented a type of memory known as SAMOS. After five years at Toshiba, he invented another type and was moved to the semiconductor production division, where he developed a 1-megabit DRAM.
In addition, the M5M will feature Toshiba's new 19nm Toggle NAND flash memory.
Toshiba (one of the major producers of flash memory) announced three new SSDs in its eSSD series.
Earlier this month, Lexar Media escalated a patent spat with Toshiba, calling for the US to ban imported memory cards that are made by its Japanese rival.
Toshiba would benefit from economies of scale in manufacturing flash memory, solid-state drives and server-use drives.
Toshiba has confirmed the performance of the new STT-MRAM memory element with a highly accurate processor simulator.
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When reminded of this, Toshiba admits that it did, in fact, invent flash memory but failed to capitalize on its initial lead.
This could provide further competitive advantages for Toshiba, particularly for products that might combine HDDs and flash memory to achieve better consumer experiences at lower prices than with flash memory alone.
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For his work, Masuoka says, he was awarded a few hundred dollars from Toshiba and only after a Japanese newspaper gave his new type of memory an award of invention of the year in 1988.
Toshiba did not permit Masuoka to devote himself to the invention of flash memory.
Toshiba did not provide Masuoka with an appropriate reward for his invention of flash memory.
Other perks include a 5-in-1 memory card reader and a PCMCIA slot, but it really seems Toshiba left a lot of the usual media-friendly suspects out to make room for those dual 120GB SATA drives.
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Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.
TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest1 power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.
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While rival Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) has launched several players and other devices that use its proprietary Memory Stick storage cartridges, Matsushita has been working with several companies, including Toshiba and SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people), to make the SD Card technology and industry standard.
Toshiba faces a difficult pricing environment because excess capacity led to a collapse in electronic component and memory chip prices.
Toshiba announced in December that it was withdrawing from the DRAM business and devoting more resources to flash memory.
Toshiba plans to celebrate the anniversary of NAND flash at many events in 2012, including the Flash Memory Summit in August.
Flash memory for these devices is made by companies such as Intel, Micron, SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba.
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