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 92,000 I/Os per Second per Gigabit Ethernet Port!
Years ago, I heard the phrase "the network is the computer" from Sun Microsystems. It was thought provoking, especially as networking was just on the cusp of becoming commonplace. These days, with servers, spoolers, Internet, and distributed and shared applications, this is becoming more evident. Storage Area Networks (SANs) are another example of how a user at a desktop machine is part of something much bigger than just the desktop machine.
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Toshiba Adds Modified NAND Flash Memory for Easier Integration in Advanced Cell Phones With Complex Memory Subsystems
NAND flash memory has really made a mark in technology. While standard NOR flash is great for nonvolatile code storage and execution, the very high density of NAND has opened the gateway for great applications like digital cameras, MP3 players, voice recorders, advanced PDAs and cell phones, solid-state disks, and more. Toshiba's new "Chip Enable Don't Care" NAND allows the chip-enable signal to be deasserted during the "read busy" period. The result is that the microprocessor can communicate with other devices on the bus such as SRAM, PSRAM, or NOR flash while the NAND retrieves the requested information.
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Microchip Technology Debuts First 512-kbit I²C™-Compatible Serial EEPROM in Low-Profile DFN Package
My first serial EEPROM was the old 24C02. This was an I²C 256-byte serial EEPROM good for storing configuration and setup data in a small microcontroller-based system. I wrote a simple bit-banged routine that easily accessed and wrote to the part. My thoughts back then were that "this would be nice if it was denser."
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Cypress Develops World's Highest Density Networking SRAM on 90 nm Process Technology
Remember when 1-million-transistor IC's were big news? This wasn't too long ago. Critics were saying "With that many transistors, reliability will be low, yield will be low, manufacturing would be difficult, and parts would be overpriced." Well, that wasn't the case. I recently reported on a 300-million-transistor network processor, and these numbers are almost common-place these days.
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SST Introduces 32-Mbit Flash Device with 1,000 times Faster Chip-Erase Performance Than Alternatives
We have seen NAND architected flash reach 2-Gbit densities, while NOR parts are in the 16- to 32-Mbit range. It would seem from that simple statistic that those who need density would shift over to NAND, but there is more to it than that.
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Crucial Technology Introduces Flash-Card Readers
These days, the average gizmologist has more than one device that takes advantage of modern flash cards. Advanced cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, and even laptops can take advantage of the fast, small, lightweight, hot-swappable, and ever denser nonvolatile storage offered by this technology.
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