Pre-release firmware in the frame

Another cause has been found for the reason why SSDs have been dying in strange ways since the software king of the world, Microsoft pushed out its August Windows security patch.

Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

Double density

Chipzilla has promised to improve SSDs with new technology that will double that data density again.

They used to cost $324

A year ago you could pick up a 1TB SSD for $324 but now they are being flogged for more than half that price.

Bypass the password process

Researchers at Radbound University in the Netherlands have found that that major flaws in some Solid State Drives (SSDs) allow an attacker to bypass the password-based authentication process and access encrypted data stored on the drives.

Keep crashing

Software King of the World Microsoft has encountered a problem with Intel’s SSD 600p and Pro 6000p Series.

Targeting hyper-scale data centres

Chinese startup Memblaze launched its next generation of PCIe NVMe SSD products, PBlaze 5 700 and 900 series, for hyper-scale data centre deployment and enterprise mission critical set-ups.

Flash for data centres

Kingston Digital, which is the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company has announced a new range of memory products for data centres.

Up to 3,200MB/s sequential reads, based on Polaris controller

During Samsung’s 2016 SSD Forum in Japan, the company unveiled some new top-tier successors to its 2014 flagship XP941 and 2015 flagship SM951 for OEMs and system designers. 

Barefoot 3 controller paired up with MLC NAND