The Ghost in the self-driving storage machine (OK, it’s a car)
Interview: Blocks & Files aims to get a sense of the market for data storage in autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles (AVs). Seagate and Renovo have suggested an AV could...
Tabletop storage: Georgia Tech looks to SMASH an exabyte into DNA ‘sugar cube’
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is looking into ways to speed up DNA-based cold storage in a $25m Scalable Molecular Archival Software and Hardware (SMASH) project.
DNA is a...
Intel flags up delay for Optane 3D, gen 2 delivery slowdown
Intel’s latest annual report signposted a delay in bringing second generation Optane SSD and DIMM products to full availability.
The report states: "With our Intel 3D NAND technology and Intel...
Coronavirus outbreak: Which NAND and disk suppliers are at risk?
NAND and disk drive supplies could be reduced after China put entire cities into lockdown in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
So far some 6,000 people are known to have...
Catalog claims DNA data storage is economically feasible for the first time
A DNA-based data storage system can store millions of times more data in the same volume as a conventional system, lasts for thousands of years at room temperatures, and...
Why DRAM is stuck in a 10nm trap
Why is DRAM confined in a 10nm semiconductor process prison when microprocessors and the like are being built using 7nm processes, with 5nm on the horizon? If DRAM could...
Slowing growth in NAND shipments follows Covid-19 impact on smartphones
Falling sales of smartphones in the first months of the pandemic has in turn slowed NAND flash shipment growth. Ssmartphones account for 35-40 per cent of NAND flash...
Spin Memory raises $8.5m for MRAM push to market
Spin Memory, a developer of Magnetic RAM, has raised $8.5m in addition series B funding. This is valued at "the same terms as the last closing in April...
Intel Alder Stream Optane SSDs deliver ‘multiple millions of IOPS’
Intel has teased out some more details for the upcoming Barlow Pass PMEM 200 Optane DIMMs and Alder Stream Optane SSDs. These are the second generation versions of the...
Catalog bags $10 mil to fund DNA storage tech
DNA data storage startup Catalog has completed a $10m A series round and hired ex-IBMer David Turek as its first CTO.
The news was reported by Inside HPC - Catalog...
Optane Persistent Memory vs Optane SSDs – confused? Then read on
Sponsored Intel® Optane™ is a memory technology that has the potential to boost performance in key areas of the data centre, thanks to attributes that combine access speeds close...
Micron said to be mulling action against Chinese DRAM maker CXMT – report
According to reports along the Korea supply chain, Micron Technology has told DRAM module manufacturers that DRAM chips being developed by China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) might infringe its...