Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has issued a statement to Fox News that Flash 10.1 will become available for Android, WebOS, and Blackberry. Based on the statement, the application support is expected to surface for these devices in the second half of 2010. Apple still refuses to work with Adobe to bring flash enabled support to any of their devices including the newly released iPad. Narayen touched briefly on Apple's lack of participation mentioning that Apple is holding out on support for their devices not based of technology, but as a business decision that will hurt consumers. He remains confident that consumers will vote for the experience that they prefer with their wallets.
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Samsung just released a new software that will optimize the data transfer of their embedded flash memory chips. Recent production changes with Samsung's chip sets have lowered the market cost of the chips. This coupled with the newer, faster access software should help Samsung's high density chip designs more desirable for implementation in smart phones. Samsung has made a copy of their new flash memory optimization software available for each of the major mobile phone operating systems. The aspects of phone software that this new driver software will control is expected to reduce the design time required to produce new phones, as well as increase the speed of multimedia intensive applications.
The Japaneese have done it again. Scientists have developed an new low power flash chip that is capable of lasting many, many years. Conventional flash chips can suffer reduced lifespan when they are written, and rewritten extensivly. These new flash cells called ferroelectric are not only smaller buy may be re-written 100 million times compared to current techology at about 10,000. The new flash chips will also make use of a technology that allows the cells to be used evenly across the chip, and stop the use of spent cells without killing the entire chip. Lifespan of flash memory is currently measured in years. This new memory estimates over 100 years of wear. Flash memory will soon be measured in centenials.
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