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The solid-state drive market has AMD entering it again with Radeon drives. These Radeon drives are for laptops and desktops. With a very low price for the 120GB, in US dollars it comes out to be only $40.99. They happen to be compatible with the SATA III 6GB interface, it is also able to plug into a computer’s 2.5-inch hard drive slot.

The Transcend SSD370S which retails for $320 is a premium solid-state drive (SSD) and is offered from the brand you trust. Transcend has been the leading manufacturer for solid-state memory and the storage business for the last twenty years.

Samsung Electronics most advanced removable memory card has been released.  The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) was purposely composed for a higher resolution on mobile devices which include DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones. A wide variety of storage size offered which include 32, 64, 128, 256 (GB)s with different cards.

Intel Corporation, one of the world’s premier semiconductor chip maker, has finally launched the much anticipated “Knights Landing” (KNL) version of their MIC Xeon Phi processor. This new chip offered by Intel is the first full implementation of Intel’s Scalable System Framework and differs from its predecessors in three critical ways. First the chip is a bootable CPU and not a PCIe accelerator. Second the chip has an on-die Omni-Path interconnect for high bandwidth and low latency scaling between nodes.

Agam Shah, wrote an article for PC World talking about Seagate’s newest 8TB external drive. Seagate’s 8TB storage will have capabilities to work with Raspberry Pi and Chromebooks. The name of Seagate’s product is called the Backup Plus Hub. The article was posted on June 22th 2016.

The computing industry is constantly on the hunt for higher speed for both data storage and data transfer. Taking advantage of the technology development that is persistently on the rise, the industry was able to overcome an enormous obstacle such as not being dependent on the conventional form of energy, and instead it started simply operating on a source of light.

International Business Machines Corporation, commonly referred to as IBM, has recently unveiled an innovative new way to create a cheaper alternative to DRAM, as the company has been developing techniques to make enterprise data centers more dense. Designed to be less expensive than DRAM and faster than flash, phase-change memory, or PCM, is one of the several new emerging technologies. Phase-change memory has the potential to provide consumers as well as enterprises with faster access to data with lower costs; but prior to this happening, there are challenges which must be dealt with first.

On June 2 2016, Adam Shah released an article on Computer World about the new Intel Chip. The company is planning to increase the performance of the Intel chips by over 10 percent. These improvements in terms of performance could possibly go up to 20 percent. This kind of improvement fuels the rivalry fire between the two: Intel and AMD.

Researchers at International Business Machines, commonly referred to as IBM, have recently announced a significant breakthrough in phase-change memory. Scientists and researchers have spent several years searching for a non-volatile memory standard which is faster than NAND flash that simultaneously provides superior power characteristics, better longevity, as well as higher densities.

Ubiquiti Networks, the American technology company based in San Jose, California is throwing its hat into the ring for a complete whole home Wi-Fi system which includes two range extenders with the purchase of its AmpliFi product. The company is new to the consumer market but as been around since 2005 and is best known for the UniFi series of wireless networking products which focuses on long-range Wi-Fi access points.