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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced its internal M.2 2260 SATA solid-state drive is at the heart of the ASUS Zenbook UX301LA and UX301LAA. Kingston’s SSD solution helps the stylish Ultrabook with fast startup and shutdown, quick opening and closing of applications, longer battery life and rapid access in and out of hibernation.
The ASUS Zenbook UX301LA uses a 128GB Kingston M.2 2260 SATA SSD while the Zenbook UX301LAA is powered by two M.2 2260 SATA SSDs in RAID 0, thus allowing the user up to 256GB of hard drive storage. The slim form factor of the SATA 6Gbps SSD allows unrivaled performance for Ultrabook PCs. M.2 2260 is among the next-generation form factors that Kingston offers to fit various PC OEM platforms as more Ultrabook, light and thin, tablet and all-in-one solutions come into the marketplace.
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Micron Technology, Inc., today announced a new personal storage class, solid state drive (SSD), continuing a legacy of developing foundational memory technology into reliable, high-performance storage solutions. The M550 SSD is designed to meet the increasingly demanding needs of high-performance computing, ultrathin, and media/video applications. It is available today to consumers, businesses and system builders under the Crucial® brand and to OEM customers under the Micron brand.
The M550 SSD offers 20 times higher performance than a traditional hard drive, while consuming significantly less power. It enables quick boot-up, speedy file and program access, near instant wake from sleep, as well as ultra-efficient power management for increased battery life. In fact, the M550 draws as little as 0.15 watts during normal operation.
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OCZ Storage Solutions - a Toshiba Group Company and leading provider of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced its partnership with AMD to showcase the power of high performance technology at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) March 17-21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. AMD's demo systems will feature best-in-class Vector 150 Series solid state drives demonstrating how developers can enhance productivity and efficiency in their work.
"We are excited to partner with AMD for the upcoming Game Developers Conference to support the fast growing interactive game development industry," said Alex Mei, CMO for OCZ Storage Solutions. "OCZ is dedicated to delivering premium solid state storage solutions that are not only a useful tool for developers, but also meet the unique demands of enthusiasts and gamers on all levels."
"Our presence at the 2014 Game Developer Conference will feature a number of high-performance gaming systems running 24/7 in harsh conditions," said Darren McPhee, director of product marketing, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. "We knew that OCZ Vector SSDs were uniquely ready to meet the reliability requirements of our gaming installations. Between the high performance graphics of AMD Radeon™ GPUs and the fast load times of OCZ Vector SSDs, visitors to AMD's booth in the South Hall are in for a great gaming experience!"
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SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that it has filed a civil lawsuit against Korea’s SK Hynix, Inc., SK Hynix America and related entities in Santa Clara Superior Court. The lawsuit seeks damages, an injunction and other remedies against Hynix for trade secret misappropriation under California’s Uniform Trade Secret Act.
Additionally, SanDisk has submitted a criminal complaint with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department against a former employee.
These actions relate to the theft of trade secrets related to NAND flash technology by a former engineer of SanDisk who left the company in 2008 to work for SK Hynix. This engineer is alleged to have illegally taken SanDisk’s proprietary technical information and to have subsequently provided it to SK Hynix.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police today announced the arrest of the former employee, who worked at SanDisk’s joint venture manufacturing facility in Yokkaichi, Japan. SanDisk has been and continues to cooperate with law enforcement in their investigation.
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has brought a civil suit against Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. at the Tokyo District Court, under Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act. The suit seeks damages for the wrongful acquisition and use of Toshiba’s proprietary technical information related to NAND flash memory, which Toshiba pioneered in 1987 and now jointly develops and produces with SanDisk Corporation of the U.S.
Toshiba filed the suit on learning that a former employee of SK Hynix has been arrested in Japan for alleged criminal infringement of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act. The employee formerly worked for SanDisk in a NAND flash memory development project conducted in partnership with Toshiba at Yokkaichi Operations, Toshiba’s flash memory technology development and mass production base in Mie prefecture, Japan. The employee is alleged to have illegally taken Toshiba’s proprietary technical information in 2008, and to have subsequently provided it to SK Hynix.
SK Hynix is a business partner of Toshiba. However, the companies are also competitors in NAND flash memory, one of Toshiba’s core technologies, and given the scope and importance of the misappropriated technical data involved, Toshiba has no reasonable option other than to seek legal redress.
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With the trend in terminal products toward mobility, the built-in storage devices have turned to compact design in specification and size, and stronger durability are required for the products. Aiming at industrial computers driven by the trend, Apacer launches two ultra slim SSDs: JEDEC MO-297-compliant SFD 18S6 and MO-300-compliant mSATA A1. The small size equipped with SATA 3.0 high-speed transmission interface, along with the products’ features of low power consumption, durability and high performance, will become the necessary storage solution for the rise of the new mobility devices. It can be specially applied to medical tablet PCs, bedside healthcare, mobile on-board unit and data communication system devices.
Adopting SATA 3.0 high-speed transmission interface and equipped with 1x nm Toggle DDR 2.0 NAND Flash chips, Apacer SFD 18S6 and mSATA A1 SSDs boast the maximum sequential read/write speed of 470/470 MB/sec and IOPs up to 70K, with excellent booting performance and highly-reliable SLC solution. They are surely capable of supporting the operation in stringent environment, like industry-level wide-temp (-40°C~85°C) operation. To balance performance with cost, the cost-effective MLC solution is another option for application, with a maximum sequential read/write speed of 475/430 MB/sec and IOPs up to 65K, both of which are available in capacity up to 256GB, along with large capacity and high speed, providing best overall performance.
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Silicon Power, the world’s leading provider of memory storage solutions, today announces the launch of high capacity USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 USB flash drives with 128 GB. Featuring incredibly high capacities, SP 128GB USB flash drives will rewrite your storage experiences with more convenience and higher efficiency. Instead of having numerous ordinary USB flash drives with little capacities, SP 128GB USB flash drives allow a totally worries-free mobile life that only one flash drive is needed to store all your important documents, photos and videos.
Do you still get annoyed when you intend to save some important document but find out there’s no more space for it? Do you always feel confused when you try to find a file out of many USB flash drives? Silicon Power realizes the increasing demand for high-capacity storage devices and has now upgraded numerous hot-sale USB flash drives to 128GB to further provide users with a more effective and efficient way of data storage. With impressively high capacities, SP 128GB flash drives promise amazing storage abilities which could store 20,000 high-resolution 18 megapixels images, over 3,000 songs or over 20 hours High-Definition videos. SP 128GB flash drives can fully satisfy your needs at work and leisure for more data preservation and better data management.
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LaCie, the premium brand from Seagate Technology, announced today the availability of the fastest portable storage solution ever — the new LaCie Little Big Disk, featuring Thunderbolt 2. It delivers speeds up to 1,375 MB/s and fits in a laptop bag. With these advances, professionals finally have a truly portable solution for editing 4K video in the field.
To achieve the full potential of Thunderbolt 2 speeds, LaCie engineered the Little Big Disk with some of the best–performing solid state drives on the market — a pair of 500 GB PCIe Gen 2 SSDs. It's possible to push the boundaries of the technology even further by daisy chaining two LaCie Little Big Disks to achieve speeds faster than the maximum Thunderbolt 2 transfer rate. By connecting them in parallel to Apple®'s powerful new Mac Pro®, they can deliver speeds up to 2,600 MB/s.
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OCZ Storage Solutions - a Toshiba Group Company and leading provider of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that it is showcasing its complete line of enterprise and client products at this week’s CeBIT 2014 conference in Hannover, Germany, March 10-14.
“CeBIT continues to be a major event and an excellent opportunity for OCZ to engage directly with our valued customers, partners, and media,” said Alex Mei, CMO for OCZ Storage Solutions. “The top theme at this year’s CeBIT show is the future of Big Data, which is an ideal fit for OCZ’s commitment to solid state storage innovation and the introduction of solutions that enable our customers to capture and manage the countless bytes being generated daily, and leveraging the opportunities brought about by effectively utilizing these large volumes of data sustainably.”
As the first major industry tradeshow since the company’s acquisition by Toshiba, OCZ is excited to unveil an updated suite of flash storage solutions that address the high-end mobile and desktop market, database and server applications, and virtualized enterprise environments. The Vector 150 and high performance Vertex 460 will be on display for the client side, as the latest SATA III offerings based on OCZ’s proprietary controller and Toshiba 19nm NAND flash. Both the Vector and Vertex Series continue to garner rave reviews and earn top accolades with industry press worldwide, with a strong focus on performance, endurance, and reliability.
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As panels, backlight modules, control chips and materials etc., invest into the market, the ultra-high definition 4K2K is gradually being accepted by consumers; especially now when prices are dropping, more and more people are considering owning a HD flat-screen TV. TVs nowadays are equipped with more and more mature multi-functions, and consumers are becoming more and more sophisticated about the video quality; consumers also love to play the videos they recorded on the big-screen to share their lives with their friends and families.
However, the sizes of high-resolution images and videos are also becoming bigger, and sometimes while recording, consumers are disappointed as they are unable to quickly and accurately capture an exciting instant due to slow writing speeds. For this reason, the speed of the KINGMAX PRO Extreme SDXC/SDHC memory card is significantly increased. The upgraded version is faster than the most advanced UHS-I Speed Class 3 specification, allowing photography enthusiasts to no longer have to worry about writing speed and instead just focus on adjusting the camera’s iris and mode settings etc.; KINGMAX PRO Extreme SDXC/SDHC will quickly write down every precious image for you. The time it takes to copy the files onto other devices is reduced and you no longer have to wait patiently next to the device.
