The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

Amazon's four-day deal extravaganza has officially begun, and there are plenty of deals on everything from kitchen appliances and home goods to technology and fitness gear. Although TVs, projectors, ...

Flash memory has deeply penetrated consumer goods with its rising densities and falling price/bit. But new technologies will try to replace it. Flash memory is on a roll. It has gone from a backup, ...

Q. I purchased a new AVCHD camcorder that records on memory cards. With no moving parts (a spinning hard drive, or a tape drive) I expected much longer battery life than the MiniDV tape camcorder it ...

The technology behind SD cards is based on flash memory, which retains information securely even without a power supply. Nevertheless, even this technology has its limits. The electrical charges ...

If you own any portable device manufactured in the last two decades, chances are you have had to buy a fair share of the removable flash memory cards. That's the tiny bits of plastic and silicon ...

First introduced in 1999 by the SD Association (SDA), the Secure Digital (SD) memory card quickly gained acceptance as a data storage medium for handheld and portable consumer devices. The SD card was ...

The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen fluoride. To ...