Built around the SandForce SF2281 controller, the MSA720 SATA III 6Gb/s mSATA solid state drive recently released by Transcend is one-eighth the size of a traditional 2.5 inch SSD.

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When considering what it costs to make an iPhone or Android smartphone, many users might think of the screen as the most expensive piece of hardware.

Despite falling sales, Samsung maintained its position in first place with 33 percent of the market share among branded NAND flash manufacturers during the first quarter of 2012.

Efforts to surpass oversupply issues, diversify technological models and recover contract price stability have combined to lead to a much healthier DRAM industry than in years past.

The rise of DDR4 DRAM has been expected for a while, as the new memory format has been researched heavily and used in laboratory environments, but production models have yet to be released. That will change in 2013, when Micron plans to begin selling DDR4 DRAM modules.

The NAND Flash contract prices slipped once again during the second half of April, as the slow seasonal sales continue to limit the demand for new inventory and chip makers and clients are still squabbling over prices, a recent study from the DRAMeXchange found.

A growing number of DRAM manufacturers are shifting their production away from traditional PC DRAM and increasing their output of mobile DRAM and other specialty chips, a recent DRAMeXchange study found.

Toshiba, the company credited for employing the engineer who invented NAND Flash, is celebrating the technology's 25th anniversary by considering where the world would be if NAND Flash was never discovered.

In 2011, the worldwide semiconductor market experienced revenues of $301 billion, climbing 3.7 percent.