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With innovations in scaling and CMOS placement, the highest density and most advanced 6th-gen, 162-layer 3D flash memory created by Western Digital and Kioxia has now launched in what is the latest milestone from an impressive 20-year joint venture partnership, promising ever better, faster and denser storage solutions.

A consortium comprising Apple, Dell Technologies and Bain Capital has reportedly agreed to acquire Toshiba's NAND flash memory manufacturing unit.

Samsung's new plant at its Pyeongtaek Campus, South Korea, commenced construction in May 2015 and has completed its first production run of 64-layer V-NAND.

Small cap company, Weebit Nano, the company behind what it says will be the next-generation of technology to replace "Flash" memory, listed on the ASX on Wednesday with a market value of $26 million.

The all-flash storage array is one thing, but the all-flash data centre is quite another, according to EMC.

Nimble Storage introduces on-premises storage-on-demand.

Sydney-based systems integrator and service provider VCPro now uses Nimble flash-based storage and Cisco UCS mini server hardware to run its desktop-as-a-service.

Storage vendor EMC reckons its latest Isilon systems - "the workhorse for the file environment" - are the world's fastest scale-out NAS units, and the place to locate your organisation's 'data lake'.

Seagate has agreed to acquire the assets of LSI's accelerated solutions and flash components divisions from Avago Technologies.

A all-flash Hitachi Data Systems Virtual Storage Platform has achieved a record result for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark.

The new Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD is "the world's fastest hard drive" according to company officials

Flash storage specialist SanDisk has announced a flurry of new consumer products, including the "world's fastest 64GB microSDXC card."

The latest wave of product improvements from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) cuts the total cost of ownership by up to 30% and enables performance of up to one million IOPS.

New flash-based hardware and software from EMC improves application performance, the company claims.

Reference designs for tablets based on the Nvidia Tegra 4 processor use SanDisk's iNAND Extreme flash storage for improved performance.

New microcode for Hitachi Data System's Virtual Storage Platform provides a significant boost to performance with flash storage, while its new flash controller technology will yield additional improvements.

New Flash Accel software from NetApp uses server-based flash storage to improve performance by up to 90%.

Another two companies have teamed to deliver SSD advances.

New flash drives from Kingston include USB 3.0 for faster throughput.

Hitachi GST claims its latest Ultrastar solid state drives are the first enterprise-class SSDs to use 25 nanometre SLC NAND flash memory technology.