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ST announces that exactly formates the recombination plans of three big departments of Off-The-Shelf products department. According to the new organization structure, the products department of the company is divided into specialized product division, flashing memory product division and industrial products and many departments that innovates department, the organization of ST sets up in order to meet market demand, ready for the relocation on the market of flashing memory of the company at the same time. Recombinate the plan and come into force on January 1, 2007. "Trade integration and financial appropriation in the flashing memory products are at work, we are making new progress, " President & CEO Carlo Bozotti ST shows, "this important action and specialized integration of product division and establishing industrial products and many departments that innovates department to go on synchronously, doing it in this way makes ST get hold of the opportunity that the fastest-rising market brings the flashing memory trade better. " ST is establishing a flashing memory product division (FMG) run independently ,It is new for department for flashing memory business of integration all, including technology research and development, correlated to products all activity, in front and at the back of process manufacturing operations, marketing and production distributions global. FMG will be by company's executive vice president and concurrently general manager Mario Licciardello leader . In addition, it is not the flashing memory products in order to utilize synergism to expand the products demand of the company, through increasing and was responsible for MPG in the former MPA business in the past, and Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Business, ST has established one to name industrial products and many departments that innovates department (IMS) . The executives of industrial products and many departments that innovates department are the executive vice president Carmelo Papa carrying letting newly. Have established a microcontroller, memorizer and intelligent card product division (MMS) within IMS newly ,That is in charge of this business is the company executive vice president Claude Dardanne that promotes newly . Finally, the specialized product division (ASG) of ST The whole scale that will keep the same as above-mentioned two department, the department includes the newly formed movement, multimedia and communication product division (MMC) under command And family's amusement and display unit product division (HED) And Off-The-Shelf car product division (APG) And computer peripheral hardware portion (CPG) . After these departments recombinate, the executive vice president Tommi Uhari that promotes newly is responsible for moving, multimedia and communication product division, the vice president Christos Lagomichos of company that promotes newly takes on family's amusement and executive of product division of display unit. Product division of the car and computer peripheral hardware portion continue being under the charge of company's executive vice president Ugo Carena and Gian Luca Bertino.

Compared with in 2005, top hard disk (HDD) The supplier expanded their market share in 2006. The market share of Seagate's unit production recaptures a domination position that spoilt in the hard disk drive industry from 28.7% 33.1% of 2006 rising toes in 2005. Rank, rise to 19.6% for 2006 from 17.7% for 2005 by second the intersection of HDD and production. Hitachi stores science and technology (Hitachi GST) round the world It rises to 16.1% of 2006 from 15.5% in 2005, rank the end of the first, second and third. Stepping and opening up in 2005, share was 14.1%, annexed by Seagate in 2006, only accounted for 3.7% of the share as an independent entity, therefore has reduced the production of the hard disk. The hard disk supplier who ranks the top two obtained the profit too in the fourth quarter of 2006. In the 4th quarter of 2006, the market led manufacturer Seagate to further promote market share, rise to 34.6% from 34.3% of the 3rd quarter. WDC guards the the second position with 20.5%, is lower than 19.9% of quarter slightly. No. three Hitachi GST market share is 17.2%, are slightly lower than 17.5% of the 3rd quarter. In the face of the multiple challenge, the production of the hard disk is powerful to raise up Released the report, the global hard disk (HDD) of 2006 a few days ago according to the research institution iSuppli of the market The market is under facing price corroding, components and parts shortage and purchasing the constant challenge, production still increases by 15.5% compared with that of last year. The total production of the global hard disk was 434,200,000 yuan in 2006, rose by 15.5% compared with 375,800,000 in 2005. In the 4th quarter of 2006, the production of the hard disk reached 119,700,000, increased by 15.8% compared with the same period of 2005, rose by 8.3% compared with third quarter of 2006 Numerous challenges such as Seagate (Seagate) that hard disk manufacturers faced of 2006 Purchase the rival Maxtor, glass medium shortage of hard disk, and the price war coming subsequently. In addition, because MP3 player manufacturers move on to a flashing memory supplier one after another, thus cause the demand of an inch of hard disk to slow down. 2006, a potential competition technology - -NAND flashing memory driver - -Have already begun to threaten the position of the hard disk in PC. ISuppli was represented, under the influence of this trend, professional manufacturer Cornice has already the little hard disk begun to turn from the hard disk to the NAND -type flashing memory products. Just not long ago, Intel claimed to introduce a Value solid condition driver on the basis of NAND too, entered the solid condition from then on and drove the field. The new developing memory technology of system support of Microsoft Windows Vista operation, stimulates flashing memory and traditional hard disk market to increase. Robson technological platform which Intel put out newly, it is said that can increase the system response, accelerate the mulitasking and lengthen the duration of battery through using the flashing memory. The ones that benefited from computer and consumption electronic product are burning hot, move the hard disk and sell and present robust growth. This new developing market did very well in 2006, moved production of the hard disk to increase by 37%, reach 2,600,000. ISuppli analyst Krishna Chander shows, " in the face of the multiple challenge, hard disk manufacturers make such powerful sale growth, really estimable. " In 2007, industry's emerging application of the hard disk is a solution " terabyte home " of the large memory . The concept includes using the hard disk of the vast capacity, store all customer data in the single hard disk. The manufacturer entering this market at present includes Seagate, WDC and Hitachi GST. ISuppli predicts, the production of the global hard disk will be obtained 17% of the growth more in 2007.

The news on March 18, the latest investigation result reveals, the notebook computer of flashing memory is still unripe at present, the reprocessing rate is up to 20%-30%, it is more than 10 times of the ordinary hard disk note-book. According to surveying and studying the data display of the company Avian Securities, in the flashing memory notebook computer that the large-scale PC manufacturer produces, 20%-30% are returned because of trouble and characteristic. Among them, 10%-20% are returned because of the technical failure. By contrast, the proportion that the notebook computer of the hard disk is returned because of technical failure is only 1%-2%. At present, Dell is a energetical popularization manufacturer of the notebook computer of flashing memory. Dell refuses to comment to the reprocessing rate, but admit, it is really not so good as the people's will that the notebook computer of flashing memory is operating some procedures at present, such as Outlook application of Microsoft. A representative of Dell's claims: "Compared with hard disk note-book, the flashing memory note-book is relatively slow in speed while operating some procedures. " But according to Dell, Samsung will introduce the new flashing memory hard disk, can solve this problem effectively.

By IBM, prosperous and great (Macronix) And strange to dream of, up to Wait for the constituent research and development group of enterprises to show recently, have already developed and can make the high speed " phase change (phase-change) " Material of the memory; Compared with present and commonly used flashing memory, the memory running speed of phase change is higher than the former by 500~1000 times, energy consumption will be reduced greatly too. It is reported this new materials are compound semiconducting alloy. The scientific department reputable manager Speicher of IBM nanometer receives and draws the ocean (Spike Narayan) Show: "Rely on the memory of phase change, can finish the task that much flashing memory can't finish at present. " In San Francisco that will held soon " The international electronic device conference of 2006 " Have, researching and developing personnel will announce the details of this technical progress. This researches and develops the group and claims, the memory of phase change can meet the electronic industry " small volume, low energy consumption " Demand,and it is expected statuses leading. The executive vice president T.C. of IBM engineering department is old (T.C Chen) Show many experts expect, soon, what a challenge of reduced volume flashing memory will face, and the high performance of full play that the phase change memory can be while keeping the small volume very much. Research and develop it from person still representing, though the above-mentioned new material is the first development, scientist's study on technology of phase change has already had a history of several dozen years, some research results have already been applied to DVD and CD products. Receive and draw the ocean and claim, Samsung and Intel have been carrying on the development of the memory apparatus of phase change. Strange to dream of, up to Beirne of executive vice president William Vogel Claim, the memory of phase change will play an important role in the memory system in the future.

SanDisk Company introduced the hard disk drive which adopted the flashing memory a few days ago, the driver capacity of this flashing memory was 32GB, the size, appearance are the same as 2.5 inches of hard disks. Earlier this year, SanDisk has also put out a section of capacity 32GB, the specification is flashing memory driver of 1.8 inches. Generally speaking, 2.5 inches of flashing memory driver is mostly used in the notebook computer, driver applies 1.8 inches of flashing memory to MP3. As to the VIP customer, the price of SanDisk 2.5 inches of flashing memory driver is 350 dollars. This price is much higher than 32GB hard disk, but compared with SanDisk 1.8 inches of flashing memory driver, this price has been reduce by a wide margin. SanDisk shows, price of 1.8 inches of flashing memory driver cost more than 600 dollars higher more than the ordinary 32GB hard disk before this. The scene of flashing memory trade suddenly suffered a blow and a shout warning in August of 2006 a few years later: The profit growth rate of the trade glides, the product cost drops by a wide margin. Consumer's demand for the products tends towards stability, but the products of the manufacturer are supplied and increased constantly, fall reaches 60%, is well-above 42.7% in history at the price. Flashing memory manufacturer, such as SanDisk and beautiful light, plan to make the flashing memory driver used for notebook computer progressively during the following several years, so as to replace the traditional hard disk. Because compared with hard disk, the reliability of the flashing memory is higher, and can store more information, thus it is possible to offer for the fact that note-book manufacturers reduced the size of the products. The flashing memory driver products mainly have two kinds of specifications of 1.8 and 2.5 inches at present, in conformity with existing note-book. There are less in addition flashing memory drivers than consumption of hard disk, is favorable to energy-conservation. But for production firm, the cost of the flashing memory driver is still much higher than the hard disk. The hard disk space retail price or less than 50 cents of 1GB at present, and the flash card of 1GB will cost about 20 dollars possibly. The capacity of 1TB hard disk is 31 times that of SanDisk 32GB flashing memory driver, the price is only 500 dollars, driver price of flashing memory less than SanDisk. The analyst points out, on the wholesale market, the price of flashing memory is 7-8 times that of prices of the hard disk. The driver manufacturer still points out: Note-book manufacturers generally adopt the hard disk of 80GB and 120GB at present, so that users store video and music file. And if adopt the flashing memory driver of the same capacity, this kind of note-book will become the sky-high price goods. (Brenda)

News on March 14, Intel Corporation claims to drive (Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive) with the whole new product Intel Z-U130 economy solid condition on the 12th Enter the solid condition and drive the market. Intel Z-U130 economy solid condition drives and is based on NAND flashing memory, and adopt the USB interface of sector standard, can calculate to various and offer the efficient high performance of economy to store in the embedded platform. Intel's solid condition not merely has a hard disk to drive (HDD) to drive And can move the universal serial bus (USB) Various advantage,last starting time also it, store code of it is be embedded to strengthening, reduce the power consumption while offering high-speed access to data, become advanced PC, router, server, game and trade applied best choice. Intel NAND products Division's executive vice president and concurrently general manager Randy Wilhelm show, " compare with traditional hard disk, no matter in characteristic or reliability, the solid condition drives technology to have the advantage of being more. The memory technology of Intel's solid condition not only the characteristic is steady continuously, but also can offer the high-quality, significance and reliability that lead in the industry for extensive embedded application. " It is the first solution that Intel's economy solid condition drives the family that Intel Z-U130 economy solid condition drives, it has offered different trade standard interfaces and density. The products have 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB specification different from 8 GB. The speed reachable 28 MB per second of reading that this high-performance solid condition drives, the writing speed reaches 20 MB per second, can improve the operating speed (for instance of ordinary PC or embedded application notably, position and start code, operating system and conventional visit storehouse) . The solid condition can also be applied to drive to various and adopted the technical computing platform of Intel, such as the server, new developing market note-book, and low priced full-function PC. In addition, it can also be used in the router and embedded solution of Intel terminal in sale. Intel Z-U130 economy solid condition has prominent difference with other solid condition products to drive, it has undergone extensive verification testing links, includes the acceleration reliability test of more than 1, 000 hours, mean time between failure of expectation (MTBF) Achievable 5 million hours. This product adopts the fine thin appearance to capsulate (TSOP) ,Including 2.0 and 1.1 compatible interface of USB, 2x5 USB connects, and canonial single-storeyed unit NAND, makes the products can be integrated in the primitive design which designs the manufacturer easily. In addition, the company is considering putting out and adopting the efficient multiple unit (MLC) of economy Technical product of new generation.

The solution supplier Spansion of the pure flashing memory announced a few days ago: This company lies in one grade of wafers factory Spansion 1(SP1) of flagship of Japan (this is the first wafer factory adopting 300mm, 65nm MirrorBit technology to produce the flashing memory in the world) The productivity realizes the important break-through, produce over 25,000 slices of wafers every season. At present, a great deal of important customers of Spansion are verifying the products that SP1 is being produced, 65nm products including MirrorBit Eclipse device,etc.. President & CEO Bertrand Cambou Spansion shows: "This is an important milestone of development of flashing memory industry, we expect at the same time this can bring the prominent income for our whole business. Rely on this leading wafer factory, and cost and technical superiority which MirrorBit technology has, we are realizing that bring the commitment of greater value for users and the shareholder. We expect this breaks through importantly and reduces our nodal in factory and outmoded technology reliance to taking the place of rapidly, bring greater productivity to Spansion and bring more attractive cost structure for our target consumer. " Spansion the first realizes the technical company of NOR flashing memory of future generation on 300mm wafer. Objective Analysis chief analyst Jim Handy represents, 300mm brilliant round manufacturing cost will usually be lower by 30% than that of 200mm. Handy represents, " the leap of SP1 productivity is very important, it makes Spansion produce MirrorBit wafer products under the lower cost structure, thus make this company become a competitor who has efficiency even more. A lot of companies try to reach this level, but there are some problems. " SP1 is that Spansion offers a constituent element of strategies of flashing memory solution. Compared with traditional floating bar NOR technology that the rival of Spansion uses, MirrorBit technology can realize the more high output and scale more easily, reach more high capacity. SP1 and Spansion lies in another factory JV3 that know Tianjin to in the same position, and share some resources with JV3, such as employees and facilities. SP1 wafer factory is the first factories built after Spansion becomes independent company. The planning of SP1 is including further carrying out the transition to 45nm next year, it is expected that can bring and have dominant cost efficiency even more.

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