SanDisk and Toshiba join efforts to build “3D” flash
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We first heard about Toshiba’s plan to increase NAND flash capacities by building “3D” memory chips with “pillars” of stacked cells in January of 2007, but it looks like the effort is get...
SanDisk acquires MusicGremlin, slips it in front pocket
Quite a bit of time has elapsed since we last saw fit to mention MusicGremlin on these pages, but the long-lost outfit has found itself relevant again thanks to SanDisk. Announced today, the latter firm has acquired the former, and we’re told th...
SanDisk kills TakeTV dead
Here’s a sure sign of unpopularity: SanDisk stopped selling its TakeTV device, and shut down TakeTV’s Fanfare content portal, on May 15th… and nobody noticed. Originally inspiring fond sentiments with its sneakernet approach to gett...
SanDisk launches pSSD drives for low-cost PC sector
SanDisk is all about adding those prefixes to solid state drives, and not quite a year after we were forced to learn what uSSD really meant, the same firm is now shoving pSSD into our dictionary. Launched at Computex, these new parallel ATA solid-stat...
SanDisk’s 8GB Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo clocks 30MBps
Beating Sony to the punch is SanDisk’s new 8GB Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo card. The “Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo” touts the most convoluted name in portable flash storage as well as 3x the performance — 30MBps read and wri...
SanDisk launches Mobile Ultra memory cards, carry on
There’s not much new to see in SanDisk’s new Mobile Ultra line of memory cards other than some branding that’s sure to confuse people at their local electronics shop, but we’ll indulge the idea anyway. The cards come with USB a...
How would you change SanDisk’s Sansa Fuze?
Just like that obscure Burt Bacharach album, some DAPs just need a little time to grow on you. Now that SanDisk’s comparatively inexpensive Sansa Fuze has been out and about for a couple of months, we’re imploring you dear readers to cast...
SanDisk rolls out RSA-packin’ Cruzer Enterprise flash drives
It looks like anyone that makes regular use of an RSA key for one reason or another could soon have a new favorite USB flash drive, with SanDisk announcing the availability of so-called “two-for-one” Cruzer Enterprise drives, which provide...