December 12, 2011128GB, 20nm NAND Storage Announced.
Today, two leading producers of semiconductor chips, Intel and Micron have announced the development the world's first 128GB multi-layer cell NAND flash device. This technology is the first to use a 20-nanometer NAND process to fit this much storage capacity on such a small device. They have ...
September 29, 2011New Ultra Secure Flash Drive from Kingston Digital
With the growing popularity of flash drives in Government organizations and financial institutions, it is no surprise that security is becoming a growing concern. It only makes sense that our country's military and government should not have to rely on the same USB drives that are used by the...
September 15, 2011New SSD Developments From The Intel Developer Forum
There has been a lot of exciting news out of the Intel Developers Forum going on this week. The meeting has prompted a series of new product announcements from Silicon Valley giants while startups are unveiling new innovations.

Intel has announced a new enterprise SSD, or Solid State Drive, the ...
September 2, 2011New NAND Flash Test Can Identify Counterfeit Devices
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego and Cornell University are developing software they say can test unique variations in flash behavior and identify counterfeit products.

Scholars are working on software to test the unique "fingerprints" of the chips, which many ...
August 3, 2011VIA Labs Inc. Reveals VL751 USB to NAND Flash Controller
There is exciting news out of Taiwan today, for those in the flash memory industry. VIA Labs Inc., one of the top suppliers of USB 3.0 chip controllers, has announced its latest USB 3.0 device controller, the VIA Labs VL751 Super Speed USB to NAND flash controller. The VL751 is a huge improvement...
May 16, 2011Samsung Announces Production of Worlds First DDR 2.0 20nm NAND Flash
In a press release on May 12 2011 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that it has begun production on the industrys most powerful and compact flash memory chip. The new NAND flash chip touts a high-performance toggle DDR (double data rate) 2.0 multi-level cell (MLC) memory chi...
December 10, 2010Micron's Clear Solution for NAND
On December 2 Micron announced a new line of high-capacity memory products. This new portfolio named ClearNAND is designed to address the issues traditionally caused by shrinking memory chips. It is typically seen that the smaller that NAND flash becomes the more error prone it becomes as well ...
October 5, 2010Flash Memory and Probability Processing
Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. recently announced its achievement in probability processing for NAND flash memory that will herald greater energy efficiency, speedier computations and smaller form. Lyric is a DARPA and venture funded MIT spin-out whose goal has been to redesign current information pr...
September 24, 2010A New Era of Processors
Intel recently announced in its 2010 Intel Developer Forum that it will be releasing in the second half of 2011 a new line of processors codenamed Sandy Bridge to replace the current Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 lines and may even show up in some mobile devices competing with more prominent manu...
September 7, 2010Flash Memory at Its Smallest
In recent news reports Hynix Samsung and Toshiba have all announced production of 20-nm class NAND chips with Toshiba reaching as small as 24-nanometer. This new process will allow more chips stacked together for higher capacity NAND flash memory modules. The technology is being applied to 2-bi...
August 25, 2010New Products Available
We have once again added to our extensive line of fully customizable flash drives. As always we have worked hard to make only the most attractive and durable flash drives. Each new style has a large print surface to maximize your logo's exposure to potential clients.

We put a lot of thought in...
August 13, 2010Wireless USB could be the Future of USB
Wireless USB is a new technology allowing the speed and security of wired technology with the ease of wireless technology. UWB Ultra Wide Band is a wireless communication technology that allows transmission of large amounts of digital data over a wide spectrum of frequency bands for very low pow...
June 28, 2010New Smartphones and Touchpads Keep Industry Healthy
Demand for hot new devices such as Apple's recent iPhone 4 and iPad are driving other manufacturers to release their own new products which in turn has brought up overall demand for the essential NAND chips that they all utilize.

Industry analysts and NAND manufacturers are saying that the d...
May 14, 2010NAND Pricing Remaining Profitable
Data being released on the memory industry is showing an increased demand for DRAM. A report from iSuppli has shown that several DRAM components are now on allocation. As well, DRAM sales overtook the entire first half of 2009 within the first quarter of this year.

Pricing for DRAM shot up in ...
March 25, 2010NAND Demand To Be Lifted By Tablets
The verdict is out industry wide when the topic of tablets comes to the table. While some analysts see them as a burgeoning and promising market, there are just as many who claim their timing is off or that they may never become all that popular. Most agreements center around the idea that if the...
March 12, 2010Devices Using NAND To Stay Affordable This Year
The supply of NAND memory is being highly affected by several new mobile devices, leading to smaller inventories and greater earnings for manufacturers of NAND in the near future, as reported by industry analysts.

Because of the huge success of devices like the Android and iPhone, along with o...
March 2, 2010New Line Of Customizable Products Is Here
We are excited to announce a brand new series of products available now through USB Memory Direct. These selections are some of the most popular everyday items out there and now you can easily add a long lasting custom print th...
February 3, 2010Intel and Micron Announce Double Capacity 25-Nanometer NAND
For the NAND flash market Intel and Micron have made an exciting achievement. Flash companies will soon be able to create twice as much capacity in their memory or to put their memory in half the previously required space. This breakthrough will greatly help innovation in devices that use this te...
January 15, 2010Apple getting accused of manipulating NAND prices
Anonymous whistleblowers are blowing the lid off a contraversy in the portable flash memory sector by accusing portable electronics giant Apple of manipulating the manufacturer prices for NAND memory which is used within several of Apple's products.

On November 30th The Korea Times reporte...
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August 18, 2009NAND memory prices still climbing as a result of Apples latest purchase.
This time it is with Toshiba Corporation for an astounding 500 Million. Back in late July a deal was formed between the two for a large amount of NAND flash chips.

The deal has put a heavy strain on the entire NAND flash memory market. It has had competitors such as Samsung and Micron strugglin...
July 17, 2009Planning has begun for integration of 34nm Flash Chips into USB Products
Late last month Micron Technologies announced the mass production of new 16GB and 32GB NAND Flash chips using 34nm Process Technology. The new Flash chips are 17% smaller than the previous standard of chips but are able to hold more data. The 34nm Flash chips also feature an ONFI 2.1 synchronous ...
June 10, 2009Comtread Inc. expands creating three additional product lines.
Comtread incorporated is a world leader in NAND flash memory technology. With an ever growing technology market we have yet again expanded our reach further into flash technology. Adding three new product lines.

We have also expanded internally increasing our ability to produce more products f...
June 02, 2009Comtread updates it's look
We would like to welcome you to the very first article written on the newly designed comtread website. We are thrilled to let all of our customers know we have recently gone through a drastic redesign of our corporate site. The new design is meant to help users navigate the site with greater ease...