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- Interconnect Issues: History and Future Prospects
- Transistor Channel Future
- Tablets, Smartphones, and SSDs Share of NAND Market in 2013
- Top Semiconductor Ranking 2012 (Sales, Growth)
- Tablets are the New Mobile
- Samsung Galaxy S4 BOM $236 (Manufacturing Cost)
- IC Moore's Law Running out of Money
- Integrating Flash in DDR4 DIMMs
- Hynix 30 nm DRAM layout, process integration
- Radically Extending Cycling Endurance of Flash Memory Past 100M Cycles
- Top 2012 IC Foundries (Pure-play and IDM)
- 3D Flash NAND Devices and Process
- Samsung Unveils 10 nanometre (nm)-class (10 - 19nm) Embedded Memory Card
- FinFET Layout Design and Variability
- IEDM 2012 Preview: 20nm and Smaller
- IEDM 2012 Program
- Intel's 14nm Process and Manufacturing Roadmap
- Toshiba Next NAND- 3D with 15 Layers
- Next iPhone A7 Made by TSMC not Samsung
- Japan Fading in Semiconductor Fabrication?
- Android vs iPad Sales 48% to 52%
- Semiconductor Foundries:Strong Q2, but Slowdown..
- Lenovo Prove: Outsourcing is Not the Only Way (Updated)
- DRAM Market Plateau/ Flash NAND Growing
- Apple Cutting Out Samsung Chips?
- iPhone A6 Teardown Update
- NAND:Prices, Market Shares (Micron Up, Toshiba Down..)
- iPhone A6 Performance Improvement
- iPhone Teardown Updated
- iPhone 5 Cost $199 BOM
- SSD, Flash, iPad, PC, Tablet, and Servers Architecture
- Apple Cuts Samsung Orders: Lawsuits Impact?
- iPad, iPhone and Tablets => Flash, DRAM Markets Crosscurrents
- Apple Seeks Injunction Against Old Samsung Phones
- Apple vs. Samsung: Not Really an Apple Win
- Flash Memory Sales Surpass DRAM
- Samsung, a Top IC Foundry in 2012

- _IBM Acquires Texas Memory (SSD Vendor)
- Smartphone Components Cost; NAND Flash, Display, DRAM
- Nvidia #1 at TSMC Fab? Nvida has Priority for 28nm capacity
- Simon Sze Inventor Floating Gate Non VolatileM Memory (NVM)
- Q4'11 NAND Flash Ranking, Can We Trust the Numbers?
- US Fabs Losing Their Edge. Really?
- Intel: "Fabless model collapsing". Is it correct?
- Qualcomm and Nvidia Chip Shortage
- TSMC 28nm Capacity Large Shortage
- Flash is not just about storage
- Six Technologies that Save Smartphone Batteries
- Real Growth Paths for Flash Memory
- New Foundry Ranking (By IC Insights)
- Intel/ Micron 20-nm 64G MLC NAND Flash Memory Reverse Engineered
- Moore's Law Slowwwing Since 28nm Process Node
- Are Japan's Fabs stuck above 28nm Process Technology?
- iPad Teardown - Flash NAND Memory is a Major Profit Source
- Moore's Law End? (Next semiconductors generation cost $10 billion)

- When will the Flash be 2x DRAM Memory Market?
- Is Resistive RAM (RRAM) The Future Flash Memory?
- Non Volatile Flash Memory Basic
- Inside Flash Memory Manufacturing
- 2011 IEDM Full Technical Program, Previews
- Flash Summit 2011: New Insights Into the Future of NAND Flash, Top 10 Lists Trends
- Flash Memory Summit 2011: Fusion-io, STEC, and Other Presentations
- ISSCC 2011 Highlights- 20-nm Process Challenges, Samsung 512-pins DRAM, Intel
- Upcoming 2011 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
- 2010 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Updates
- 2010 IEDM Update
- 2010 IEDM Full Technical Program, Previews
- Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
- IEDM 2009 Preview
- Semiconductor IC Ranking Q3 2009 (fast growth at Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix, Micron)
- Semiconductor IC Ranking Q2 2009(Climbing TSMC, Hynix, MediaTek Droping AMD, Freescale, Fujitsu)
- Intel’s New SSD X25 Reviews and Benchmarks

- Semiconductor Companies Q1 2009 Market Shares
- DRAM and NAND Q1 2009 Market Shares
- SandForce Brings MLC to Solid State Drives (SSD)
- Long Term Trends in the NOR and NAND Markets
- Fusion-io Super Fast NAND Flash Storage Using PCIe for Enterprise Market
- Faster Cheaper Solid-State Hard Drive
- ISSCC 2009
- 15 Technology Challenges for 22-nm Node
- Semiconductor Industry Rankings for First Three Quarters of 2008
- SanDisk's ExtremeFFS - New Flash Management System for Improving SSD Performance and Reliability
- Samsung Buying Sandisk? (Update)
- Samsung Buying Sandisk?

- Learning Curve Leads to Shakeout in SSD Market
- Second Quarter 2008 NAND rankings
- Intel's SSD Drives
- Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems Increased 5x Endurance of Solid State Drives (SSD) with 8 Gbit Single-Level-Cell (SLC)
- Demand for NAND Flash Memory for Handsets Doubles its Share of Market, Making up the Biggest Share of NAND Market
- Update - Apple’s iPhone 3G Semiconductor Parts
- Leave Laptop at Home and Travel with USB Key Drive Instead
- Seagate Technology, the World's Largest Maker of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) Sues STEC, a Small Solid-State Drives (SSD) Maker
- Faster SSD Appearing in the Market (estimate 200MB/sec)
- iPod Touch Components likely to be in Future of the iPod line - iSuppli Tear Down
- Flash Memory and SSD Reliability - Comments by Intel and Samsung
- NAND Flash Evolution 2006 to 2010
- Future technologies that may succeed flash memory
- 2010 IEDM Update
- 2010 IEDM Full Technical Program, Previews

- IEDM 2009 Preview
- Intel Developer Forum 2009: Performance, Reliability, and Future Direction of Solid State Drive (SSD)
- Flash Memory Summit 2009: Fusion-io, STEC, Denali and Other Presentations
- SSD Market Share and Sales with Breakdown by Density
- Palm Pre Teardown
- Semiconductor Companies Q1 2009 Market Shares
- SandForce Brings MLC to Solid State Drives (SSD)
- Long Term Trends in the NOR and NAND Markets
- Fusion-io Super Fast NAND Flash Storage Using PCIe for Enterprise Market
- Faster Cheaper Solid-State Hard Drive
- ISSCC 2009
- 2008 Semiconductor Industry Growth and 2007 Rankings and Revenues - iSuppli
- Intel, Micron New ONFi 2.0 Interface Boost the Data Transfer Rate of NAND Flash-Memory 5x
- ISSCC 2008 Highlights
- Intel and STMicroelectronics Shipping Functional Prototype of Phase-Change Memory (PCM)
- IC Semiconductor's 2008 Growth Forecasts for PCs, Memories, and Phones from Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS)
- Counterfeit Part's Impacts on the Semiconductor Industry
- Samsung, Toshiba Share OneNAND and LBA-NAND Flash Specs to Improve Supply Availability

- IEDM Technical Program - 2007
- iPhone Semiconductor Components
- Chip Makers Must Shift from Fabs to Systems - Infineon CEO
- Memory Chip Architecture Development - Harnessing Multiple Cores for Parallel Execution
- Flash Drive is Surpassing Hard Drive Usage in Portable Video Players
- NVMHCI Standard for NAND Flash Module Controllers in Notebooks, Desktops, and Servers
- 15 Technology Challenges for 22-nm Node
- 450-nm Fabs Status
- IEDM 2008 - 2nd Update
- IEDM 2008 - Update
- IEDM 2008 Preview

- SanDisk's ExtremeFFS - New Flash Management System for Improving SSD Performance and Reliability
- Learning Curve Leads to Shakeout in SSD Market
- Demand for NAND Flash Memory for Handsets Doubles its Share of Market, Making up the Biggest Share of NAND Market
- NAND for mobile handsets: cost, density and performance advantages
- Update - Apple’s iPhone 3G Semiconductor Parts
- Faster SSD Appearing in the Market (estimate 200MB/sec)
- Evolution of Components in Smart Phones
- Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI)
- Flash Memory and SSD Reliability - Comments by Intel and Samsung
- MTRON 32GB SSD vs. Seagate and Samsung 's SSD
- Intel, Micron New ONFi 2.0 Interface Boost the Data Transfer Rate of NAND Flash-Memory 5x
- NAND flash memory in a system
- IEDM Technical Program - 2007
- Microsoft and SanDisk Join Forces to Create Software and Hardware Applications in USB Flash Drives and Flash Memory Cards, Advancing U3 Smart Technology
- Hard Drive and Flash Drive will Evolve Into Complimentary Products
- Future of Flash NOR
- ReadyBoost, ReadyDrive, and Embedded Flash on Motherboard are Flash Memory Applications Used in Microsoft's Vista