Even as a mature, diverse and reliable technology—magnetic spinning disk drives (aka hard disk drives or “HDDs”) continue to grow in capacity, performance and cost benefits. Alternative storage ...

Most applications that require a microcontroller also require somemechanism to store settings that will be remembered even when power isremoved. For example, a radio that forgets its station presets ...

The Flash Memory Summit was host to a range of new technology. Find our about 3D Vertical Flash and more. Samsung’s 3D V-NAND flash architecture increases capacity by layering 24 cells on top of each ...

The Wintel band is getting back together. NAND flash SSDs have revolutionized the storage world in the last 10 years. But non-volatile memory (NVM) is a much bigger deal than SSDs could ever be. Intel ...

Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology unveiled 3D XPoint technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application or service that benefits from fast ...

We live in a real time world where no one likes to wait. Incessant demand for faster end user experiences and services, on every mobile device, drives unrelenting pressure on the other side of the ...

Non-volatile memories such as flash memory are transforming data centers, client computers and consumer applications. They have led to new interfaces and developments in software that take advantage ...

At some point when developing embedded applications, you’re going to want to store unique values in non-volatile memory, values that can’t be fixed at compilation time. Many microcontrollers have a ...

Memory has been a key limiting factor in the design of processor-based systems since, well, forever. The number of weird and wonderful storage systems is actually pretty large, although many designers ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. A couple of years back, IDC predicted that by 2025 the average person will interact with connected devices ...