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Disk-Drive Makers Keep on Racing To Raise Capacity

Some dueling disk-drive makers are claiming new records for storing data, extending a technology that is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Silicon Valley this week.

A unit of  Hitachi Ltd. plans to announce today that its researchers have demonstrated the ability to store 345 gigabits — or billions of bits — of [...]

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SanDisk Introduces 4GB miniSDHC Flash Card for Mobile Phones

Industry’s Highest Capacity Card For Cellphones Will Enable High-Resolution Photography, Digital Video, Music, Games and Data Storage 

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 12, 2006–SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK – News) today announced a 4-gigabyte (GB)(1) miniSD High Capacity (SDHC(TM)) flash card at the CTIA Wireless Show, where the company is exhibiting in Booth #1147. SanDisk Press Release [...]

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Samsung develops new memory chip

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.

The phase-change random access memory, or PRAM, chip is nonvolatile, meaning it will retain data even when an electronic device is turned [...]

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WSJ: Apple, Sony Could Steer Chip Boom

HONG KONG — Apple Computer Inc. and Sony Corp. may hold the key to NAND flash-memory makers’ success or failure in the second half.

Demand for NAND flash-memory chips has been weaker than expected this year, leading to steep price declines. But major chip makers are moving aggressively to boost capacity in [...]

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H.264 decoder test takes careful planning

The testing of advanced video decoders is a daunting task, considering the greater complexity and nonlinearity of H.264 compared with MPEG-2. Decoding depends on numerous contexts and states that one would be very unlikely to encounter through random interoperability testing.

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