Premium USB’s CES 2012 Preview!
This year’s annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) is just days away from descending on the desert city of Las Vegas. With 1.6 million square feet of exhibit space and more than 140,000 attendees, it’s expected to be a melting pot of sheer geekery, booth babes and eye-opening trends. And Premium USB would know. [...]
A Chromebook Experience Via USB Flash Drives
If you’re not familiar with ChromiumOS, it’s the open source version of Google’s Chrome operating system which is meant to work entirely with web applications. Most users have been out of luck to try it out on anything other than a Chromebook. As a result, web developer Liam McLoughlin (who in the online world [...]
New Toshiba and Samsung NAND Flash Plants Signal Positive Trend
There are some exciting developments on the horizon for NAND memory, the primary chip component that powers USB flash drives. It’s the kind of progress that could forecast a market dominance that NAND has yet to experience.
It starts with the opening of two new NAND flash facilities by industry rivals in Japan. Toshiba, in [...]
USB Flash Drive Versus SSD: Revealing the Differences
When solid state drives and USB flash drives are both known for using NAND flash memory, it’s easy to blur their differences. So while they essentially come from the same family, there are three distinct factors that set them apart: interface, performance and controllers. However, before we get into the differences between SSD and [...]
Phase Change Memory (PCM): Next Gen Flash Replacement?
Just this week, IBM made an announcement that could change the course of computer memory as we know it. The tech company divulged details on the development of phase change memory (PCM) chips that store two bits of data in every cell. Soaring 100 times better than NAND flash in performance while using less [...]
