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Crucial Launches New 500GB/4TB X6 Portable SSD Variants
Crucial has today launched an expansion of its award-winning portable solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio to offer consumers more options for external storage performance, capacity, and value at any price point. With an even greater selection of portable storage options now available, consumers looking to store large gaming libraries or more…
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Power Outage At Micron Plant May Spell RAM Price Hike
It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that manufacturing production lines, particularly for PC and/or electrical components, are highly sensitive. As such, any disruption to the line, even for a relatively minimal amount of time, can have huge consequences. Why are we telling you this though? Well, following a…
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Micron Announces the Crucial X6 Portable SSD
Crucial, Micron’s global consumer brand of memory and storage has today announced the new Crucial X6 portable solid-state drive (SSD). This new transportable, ultra-sleek drive expands the company’s award-winning SSD portfolio and offers more value, capacity, and performance options, making it perfect for customers who require instant access to all…
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Micron Confirms (Some) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Specs
We’re going to start off by confirming that the title isn’t a typo. Yes, we’ve heard more than a few rumors to suggest that Nvidia is indeed planning on launching an RTX 3090 graphics card. Exactly what it will truly represent, however, has remained something of a mystery. Will it…
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Micron Memory Sets New DDR4 Overclocking World Record
Crucial Ballistix memory is the high-performance king once again. Their memory has managed to set a new overclocking world record. Maxing out at a whopping memory frequency at 6024MT/s. Leveraging performance-tuned Micron die and the innovation behind the new Ballistix® Elite 4000 memory, the ASUS motherboard R&D team set the record using liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling and…
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Micron’s New 9300 Series NVMe SSD is Available Up to 15.36TB
Available for Mixed-Use or Read-Intensive Applications Micron is launching their new 9300 series of enterprise NVMe SSDs, with two variants depending on the workload. The first is the 9300 PRO for read-intensive use, and the 9300 MAX for mixed-use applications. The primary difference being 1-drive-write-per-day limitation on the 9300 PRO,…
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Micron is Cutting DRAM and NAND Output to Combat Price Drops
Oversupply Led to Sharp Fall in Pricing After several years of high memory prices, they are finally falling down. So much so that according to Micron, it has lead to over 20% fall in their product’s average sale price (ASP) during the quarter ended February 2019. This of course, directly…
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Micron Announces the 2200 PCIe NVMe SSD Series
In-House Controller Plus 3D TLC Micron is expanding their storage portfolio further with the announcement of the new 2200 SSD series. Unlike the 1300 series announced several weeks ago, the 2200 series uses the speedier PCIe 3.0×4 NVMe instead of SATA. Also unlike the 1300 series, the 2200 series uses…
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Micron Announces New 96-Layer 3D TLC-Equipped 1300 SSD
Affordable Consumer SSD Upgrade from HDD Micron is launching their new 1300 solid-state drive lineup for consumers. Although not the fastest drive from the company, these are designed for regulars users as a faster alternative to HDDs. Since it is a mainstream SSD, it SATA-based and is available in both…
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Micron Announces c200 1TB MicroSDXC UHS-I Card
Higher Capacity microSD Option Along with Western Digital and their new SanDisk Extreme, Micron is also announcing that they have a 1TB microSD card available. The announcement from Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona compliments the next generation smartphones. Now, users can have up to 2TB of storage on a…
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Crucial Adds 960GB Capacity Option to BX500 SSD Line
Larger Capacity, Same Low Price Crucial first launched their BX500 entry-level solid-state drive 6 months ago. Now they are expanding on it further by offering a larger capacity 960GB drive. Users can still find 120GB, 240GB and 480GB versions. Although now there is more room to install games and other…
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Micron to Acquire Intel’s Interest in IM Flash Joint Venture
Reaching the End of a Partnership Micron and Intel originally teamed up to jointly develop 3D Flash and 3D XPoint technology. However, as of July 2018, both companies agreed to conclude their partnership, following the completion of the second gen node. This occurs sometime in 2H of fiscal 2019. After…
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Lexar Introduces the NS100 and NS200 SATA SSD Series
Lexar Enters the SSD Market Digital media manufacturer Lexar are more commonly known for their SD card and USB drive products. However, if you recall, Micron who owned Lexar discontinued their removable storage business last year. Then SSD manufacurer Longsys moved in to acquire the brand from Micron. Now the…
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Micron Expanding Fabs and Facilities in Virginia
Micron Will Invest $3 Billion Into Virginia Over the past decade, we have seen an impressive uptake for DRAM and NAND memory products. To keep up with demand, all major players have been upgrading their fabs non stop. As part of the IMFT partnership, Micron is a major player in…
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IMFT 3D QLC Yields Lower Than Expected
Intel and Micron Struggling With 3D QLC Yields With the rise of QLC in recent years, NAND is expected to grow cheaper than ever. Along with the developments in 3D NAND, SSD capacity should move along nicely. Unfortunately, every now and then, problems pop up. One such issue is popping…
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