Samsung news from FierceCIO

Industry insiders have accused Apple of using "questionable" methods in order to push down global NAND flash prices. For the uninitiated, Apple is the largest consumer of flash memory used for making... Read more...

Seagate Technology has announced that it is shipping the Barracuda XT, a 7200RPM desktop hard drive with a 2TB of storage capacity and 64MB of cache. More importantly, the XT is the first such drive... Read more...

A consortium, which includes members such as Samsung, Sanyo, Olympus, Philips and Texas Instruments, is finalizing a standard that could one day see the proliferation of mobile devices and gadgets... Read more...

Intel and Micron, earlier this week, announced that they have successfully developed NAND flash memory that is capable of holding 3 bits per cell--compared to the normal 2-bits per cell technology... Read more...

Samsung has co-developed a new processor with Texas-based Intensity that it says runs at 1GHz. Designed for smartphones, the new chip is code-named "Hummingbird." Of course, it's hardly the first... Read more...

Solid State Disks have become a stable technology that is swiftly moving toward maturity. Certainly, I believe that it is set for widespread deployment in enterprises and the data center once prices... Read more...

There is a channel shortage of larger capacity hard disk drives (HDD) for laptops and it looks like it will continue through the third quarter, at least. Ironically, the genesis for the tight supply... Read more...

On Thursday, Samsung Electronics unveiled the first hardware-based self-encrypting solid-state drive (SSD) in the world. Data is transparently encrypted as it is written to the SSD--which will be... Read more...

Amid continued steep declines in the price of flash memory chips, the cost of solid-state drives (SSD) is expected to achieve price parity with that of current generation of hard disk drives within... Read more...

The move to support digital photo frames appears set to cross a critical mass, with Samsung introducing a line of processors specially designed for digital photo frames. Indeed, Samsung--the maker of... Read more...