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A Game Changer for the Data Center
2015 may be remembered as the year when flash memory overtook hard-drives as the storage media of choice for a variety of applications. In the above interview, Tien Shiah, Product Marketing Manager -SSD of Samsung Semiconductor, discusses Dell’ recent announcement of the integration of Samsung’s TLC flash drives with a cost-point as low as $1.66/Gigabyte. Shiah points out that, “An all-flash array,…
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Beaming in Some Big Announcements
With its announcement of a 16 Terabyte drive using three-dimensional Vertical NAND Flash memory (3D V-NAND). Samsung had a visible (and floating in its booth) proof point that flash memory is to the point where it is competitive with hard-drives for many applications. Anders Graham, SSD Product Marketing Manager, points out that one of the…
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Military Use of Semiconductors
The role of the early space program and its impact on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) progress of the US and what’s ahead is discussed.
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CMOS Discussion
The impact of military and space programs on the development of CMOS technologies.
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Density Deadend
Aart De Geus discusses how the impossible becomes possible for both semiconductors and EDA.
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Great Memories of a Person Critical to the Success of the Flash Memory Business
Flash Memory Summit Technical Chairperson, Brian Berg, interviews some of the team that was responsible for creating the first flash disk drive. Eli Harari, founder and former CEO of SanDisk, along with Firmware Engineer, John Magnan and engineer and current SanDisk CTO, Kevin Conley, discuss the important contributions Bob Norman made to this effort. Norman…
