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News about nand

• Is the chip boom coming to an end?

  Some analysts now expect the industry's growth rate will fall by more than half this year to 30 per cent

• Enterprise SSDs to soar through 2015

  SSD data center market to grow to $US4 billion over next five years, says research firm

• Samsung to put PCM for smartphones in chip package

  Smartphones with phase-change memory could come next year

• Global chip sales skyrocket in January

  Semiconductor sales up 47.2% over January 2009, industry group says

• Micron boosts NAND flash endurance six-fold

  Flash memory maker says SLC NAND flash can perform 300,000 write cycles

• Corsair launches Extreme SSD line

  The new drives use the popular Indilinx Barefoot controller

Features about nand

• SSD performance -- is a slowdown inevitable?

  Solid state drives could suffer performance issues after prolonged use