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A battle over chip manufacturing prowess in the flash memory chip industry appears to be brewing between Samsung Electronics and IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture operated by Intel and Micron. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, unveiled NAND flash memory chips produced using advanced 20-nanometer production technology on Monday, just months after IM [...]

On the heels of OCZ Technology Group’s release of its first sub-$100 solid-state drive (SSD), Intel is shipping a $125 SSD called the X25-V Value SATA SSD. Affordable is the word Intel wants associated with this drive, but the price per gigabyte is the same as that of its higher-capacity consumer SSDs. The new drive [...]

Micron Technology has agreed to acquire flash memory maker Numonyx, adding NOR flash chips — a memory type commonly found in mobile phones and MP3 players — to its product lineup and expanding its manufacturing capacity The all-stock offer to acquire Numonyx is worth $1.27 billion, Micron said. Numonyx is jointly owned by Intel, STMicroelectronics, [...]