Making Memories

Recently, I traveled to Lehi, Utah with a select group of media and industry analysts for a tour of IM Flash Technologies, the fabrication facility where we make our NAND flash memory. Together with some colleagues from Intel, we enjoyed a rare opportunity to see the inner workings of this state-of-the-art fab.

This was the first time Micron has ever allowed media and analysts inside the fab – an experience that many reported was well worth it. Just ask Allyn Malventano from PC Perspectives: “Getting a first-hand look at the bleeding edge of chip fabrication is something I know I’ll be talking about for years to come.”

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RealSSD Wins at Storage Visions

RealSSD C300 just took home the award for best Home Consumer Electronics Storage Product at the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas—beating out some heavy competition.

The judges noted several features of the RealSSD C300 including its SATA 6Gb/s interface, an industry-first, that doubles the bandwidth available to the SDD (when compared to the standard SATA 3Gb/s interface).

And of course, it was recognized for its unmatched speed and performance. As the benchmarking videos below demonstrate, the RealSSD C300 read speeds make it the fastest client SSD out there.

Enterprise NAND—Some Industry Perspective

We’ve had tremendous feedback from customers, partners, media and analysts on our Enterprise NAND announcement.  So I thought I’d include a couple of perspectives from the industry on the potential impact of Enterprise NAND:

• “a significant milestone for the industry, one that’s likely to increase confidence in the technology.”
—Bob Merritt, analyst
InternetNews.com

• “proves wrong all those people who think that high-endurance devices will never be supported by advancing lithographies.”
—Jim Handy, analyst
Enterprise Storage Forum

• “Micron made a major announcement this week touting a new memory structure that simultaneously drives up the density and write performance of current Flash memory.”
IT Business Edge