Hynix reveals world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module
SK Hynix said it has developed the world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module, with twice the capacity of the company's current 64GB module.
SK Hynix said it has developed the world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module, with twice the capacity of the company's current 64GB module.
The My Passport Pro comes in 2TB and 4TB models and can be set to RAID 0 or 1.
Western Digital demonstrated a 2.5-in laptop drive using HAMR recording technology that has the potential to increase areal density on disk platters five-fold.
Seagate announced that it has sold more than 1 million drives using a new recording technology that will offer consumers 5TB hard drives next year and possibly 20TB drives by 2020.
With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.
USB SuperSpeed will move from 5Gbps bandwidth to 10Gbps in the coming year, but it's also leaping from 10 watts to 100 watts for charging, which could power monitors and even HDTVs.
After its buyout of Texas Memory Systems, IBM is now the latest on the vendor bandwagon to push flash into the data centers, saying it will invest a whopping $1 billion into flash research.
Samsung today announced it is now mass-producing a 3-bit per cell, sub-20 nanometer class NAND flash chip that is the densest memory to date.
With accelerating growth in tablets and smartphones and a maturing of OSes, PCs are seeing far less growth in DRAM use.
EMC today announced its first purpose-built, all SSD array along new PCIe server flash cards and a new software suite that can offer administrators a single view of all their flash assets across the data center.
NetApp today announced significant upgrades to two of its midrange Fabric Attached Storage arrays, boosting memory, processor cores and drive slots.
The price of the most popular hard disk drives are beginning to drop as inventories climb out of a deep hole that began in October after massive flooding <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221717/PC_makers_should_brace_for_drive_shortages">shut down major production sites in Thailand</a> .
Shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) jumped more than 66% in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same period last year.
The monsoonal flooding in Thailand that closed down a dozen or more hard drive manufacturing and supply plants will mean millions of fewer PC shipments in the first quarter of 2012.
IBM <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36135.wss#release">on Monday announced</a> at the IEEE conference that it has produced a working <a href="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/spinaps/research/sd/?racetrack">Racetrack Memory circuit</a> , which could lead to chips with the capacity of hard drives, but the durability and performance of flash drives.