The new requirements of the marketplace, especially in many consumerembedded designs and mobile devices means we should rethink ourpriorities about nonvolatile memory ...

Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. But Diablo Technologies, an upstart in the memory arena that has been making some waves in recent years, thinks that ...

Flash memory is ubiquitous, especially in mobile devices. Available in a wide range of form factors, it continues to push hard-disk drives from more and more platforms as its costs go down and ...

Everyone knows them, everyone has them. USB sticks, or thumb drives, are ideal for quickly exchanging data between computers — but also for transporting digital content between mobile phones and PCs ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Hit the road with Corsair’s 16-Gbyte Voyager flash memory drive (Fig. 1); load up a bootable copy of Linux; find a machine and plug it in. The results, however, ...

There are numerous flash card formats. This section will give a brief overview of the predominant types. These two cards offer the same electrical interface, but have different form factors. The ...