Powerchip builds Chinese fab
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12 inch wafers

Powerchip is to set up a joint-venture fab in the capital city of China's Anhui Province with the Hefei city government the big idea is to build 12-inch wafers and provide foundry services mainly for driver ICs.

Intel unleashes 750-series PCIe/NVMe SSD
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Leaves SATA drives in the dust

Intel has launched new 750-series solid state drives, based on PCIe and NVMe interfaces, enabling substantially higher performance than the company’s SATA SSDs. 

Samsung refreshes EVO
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Supersmall drives for laptops

Samsung has refreshed its 850 EVO series by adding slim m.2 and mSATA verions.

Intel wants to quadruple SSD storage
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More porn super fast

Intel wants to stuff four bits per cell to get more storage out of SSDs

Micron and Intel ship 256Gb 3D NAND
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Toshiba and SanDisk start sampling 48-layer 128Gb chips

Micron and Intel have announced the availability of 256Gb NAND, the world’s highest density flash memory, but Toshiba is hot on their heels.