Intel has sold its flash memory business to Boston-based PC card specialist, Centennial Technologies. The flash memory card market is becoming important as devices such as PC cards and portable digital cameras and MP3 players proliferate, however...
Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity. Chips that integrate several functions - such as the Manitoba chip that contains a processor, a digital signal processor and flash memory - will become...
If Intel winds up with excess flash memory inventory - particularly in the form of large numbers of low-end chips - the company may ultimately have to write it off. The chipmaker, which updated analysts on its financial outlook for the quarter in...
With the new package, mobile phone makers will be able to put 512 megabits of flash memory - along with other memory chips - into phones this year, and one gigabit next year without increasing the surface area needed on the board.
Samsung has displaced Intel as the world's leading manufacturer of flash memory, a rare change that reflects some trends in the growing market. Samsung and Toshiba primarily manufacture NAND flash memory, while Intel and AMD primarily make NOR flash.
The utilisation of factory capacity is running at about 80 percent. Many of the newer foundries, which have been popping up in China, have more excess factory capacity than the average chip maker. Similarly, Micron and Intel have formed a joint...
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