Flash

Weebit Nano has raised $56 million in a share placement plus a non-underwritten placement to raise up to $6.5 million. Weebit will issue 19.8 million new securities representing about 19.4% of the company’s issued capital at $2.60 each and for the non-underwritten placement will issue 2.5 million new securities, representing about 1.2% of the company’s issued capital, also at the ...

Segger has added system test capability to its ‘Flasher’ range of in-system programmers. “In addition to programming a target image, these devices can now run custom applications, thereby adding an entirely new layer of flexibility to the programming workflow,” according to the company, which calls the user-sourced C programmes ‘Flasher Apps’. “Flasher Apps run directly on a Flasher. They are ...

Kioxia has begun sampling 128Gbyte and 256Gbyte and 1Tbyte UFS v4.1 embedded flash memory for automotive applications, with 512Gbyte to follow. “They meet AEC-Q100/104 Grade 2 standards, supporting case temperature up to 115°C,” according to the company. “The UFS 4.1 devices are designed to fit the needs of infotainment, ADAS, telematics, domain controllers and vehicle computers.” Inside is its eight generation ...

Kioxia is shipping samples of 512Gbit triple-level cell flash memory built with its ninth generation 3D technology, with mass production to follow this fiscal year. “The devices are designed to support applications requiring performance and power efficiency in low to mid-level storage capacities. They will also be integrated into Kioxia’s enterprise SSDs, in particular those that aim to maximise GPU ...

Average Q3 NAND Flash contract prices are projected to rise by 5% to 10%, says TrendForce, although price increases for eMMC and UFS devices are expected to be more modest. TrendForce says that the client SSD market is set to experience strong restocking momentum in 3Q25, following better-than-expected inventory clearance by OEMs and ODMs in the first half of the ...

IQE and Quinas Technology say they have successfully completed their £1.1m UltraRAM industrialisation project. This involved developing a scalable gallium antimonide (GaSb) epitaxy for memory devices. In July 2024 they were awarded the year’s funding by Innovate UK to take UltraRAM further towards mass production. Quinas Technology is the startup founded by IQE and the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff. ...

JEDEC – the Solid State Technology Association – is publishing JESD220G: Universal Flash Storage 4.1, an update to the UFS standard. Aimed at applications where power efficiency is essential, UFS 4.1 offers faster data access and improved performance, says the standards body. It also maintains hardware compatibility to UFS 4.0. For example, it will be relevant for mobile applications and ...

Infineon Technologies has introduced a radiation-hardened 512Mbit QSPI NOR flash memory for space applications and other extreme environments. “The device offers a 133MHz quad serial peripheral interface and the highest density, radiation and single-event effects performance available in a QML-qualified non-volatile memory for use with space-grade FPGAs and microprocessors,” claimed the company. To puts some numbers on these radiation claims, ...

Raspberry Pi’s RP2350, its second-generation microcontroller, will be available by the end of the year in flash-less and flash-inclusive forms, in two packages: RP2350A QFN60 no flash $0.80 RP2350B QFN80 no flash $0.90 RP2354A QFN60 2Mbyte flash $1.00 RP2354B QFN80 2Mbyte flash $1.10 QFN60 types are 7 x 7mm and have 30 GPIOs, QFN80 types are 10 x 10mm and ...

Raspberry Pi has released the official M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, allowing the connection of NVMe memory drives and AI accelerators. It accepts M.2 2230 or 2242 form factors, to which it can supply up to 3A and transfer data at up to 500Mbyte/s via the Pi’s single PCIe 2.0 channel. Being compliant to the HAT+ specification means that ...