Micron, Oracle settle memory price-fixing lawsuit
Micron Technology has reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by Oracle over an alleged conspiracy to increase DRAM prices, it said on Thursday.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleged a conspiracy to increase DRAM prices and other violations of federal and state antitrust and unfair competition laws based on purported conduct for the period from Aug. 1, 1998 through at least June 15, 2002, Micron said. Read more...
Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned
Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
The 51-year-old Appleton, a three-decade industry veteran who performed stunts at airshows, died after the small plane he was piloting crashed at an airport in Boise, Idaho, where the chipmaker is headquartered.
His death stunned the tight-knit semiconductor industry. Appleton was a prominent figure in Boise, a city of 200,000 in the western United States, and a member of the Idaho Business Council. Read more...
Intel, Micron double density of NAND flash memory
Intel and Micron Tuesday announced that their joint NAND flash manufacturing venture will begin using a more dense circuitry that will allow a terabit of data, or 128 gigabytes, to fit on a fingertip.
The joint venture, IMFT (IM Flash Technologies), said today it has created the world's first 20nm (nanometer), 128Gbit MLC (multilevel-cell) NAND flash die.
The new 20nm chips have the highest capacity for their form factor of any in the market today and are targeted for use in tablets, smartphones, and other consumer electronic devices.
The die doubles the capacity of the venture's 25nm lithography process, which has been used to make the 64Gbit dies used in today's SSDs (solid-state drives), tablets, and smartphones. Read more...
Micron announces its first PCIe SSD for enterprise data centers
Micron Technology today announced its first line of PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state drives (SSDs) aimed at enterprise-class data centers with up to 700GB capacity and 3GB/sec throughput.
Micron initially revealed the new RealSSD P320h at SNW in May. The drive is expected to ship in the third quarter of this year.
While the P320h is Micron's first PCIe-based SSD, it is only one in a category of products the company is aiming at the entry-level, midrange and high-performance applications, such as relational databases and streaming video. Read more...