Data retention is a funny thing. Atmel will gladly tell you that the flash memory in an ATmega32A will retain its data for 100 years at room temperature. Microchip says its EEPROMs will retain data ...

Advances in the automotive industry continue to make cars safer, more efficient, and more reliable than ever. As motor vehicles become more advanced, so do the silicon components that serve as the ...

The technology behind SD cards is based on flash memory, which retains information securely even without a power supply. Nevertheless, even this technology has its limits. The electrical charges ...

Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world's leading developer and manufacturer of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, today announced the UNISYST MRAM ...

USB flash drives are a cheap and convenient storage medium, but for a variety of reasons, are far from ideal for storing ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

What is NAND flash memory? NAND flash is a type of nonvolatile memory that is accessed like a mass storage device (e.g., a hard drive). A form of electronically erasable programmable readonly memory ...

Finding an SSD that suits your needs is like shopping for any other product—you have a wide range of options that run the gamut from inexpensive (but lesser quality) to very pricey (with excellent ...

NAND flash technology is on a roll with advancements in cell structure and the subsequent boost in storage density. That allows this non-volatile-memory (NVM) chip to deliver faster throughput and ...