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• s  characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids
• s  consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices

• Older iPods (except for the low-capacity iPod Shuffle) have miniature hard drives in them, but the Nano is built around a chunk of solid-state Flash memory.
• SanDisk is one of the largest manufacturers of flash memory the solid-state storage chips found in MP3 players, digital cameras, cell phones and USB drives so it can .
• With the S5004 model you get a solid-state hard drive, which means no fragile spinning parts, so the machine is less likely to suffer damage if dropped or bumped.

News & Articles

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• EM and Solid-State Relays conserve space with slim design.
  TERMSERIES, The All-rounder, is housed in slim 6.4 or 12.8 mm design with matching profiles that can be combined as needed based on application. These relays switch loads of up to 8 A (resistive) at 250 V. Equipped with one- and two-changeover contacts, pluggable electromechanical and solid-state relays minimize required space on mounting rail. Depending on application, series offers choice of ...
  June 13, 2013 - ThomasNet
• sTec Solid-State Storage Appliance to Be Showcased at SIFMA Tech 2013 Conference in New York City
  SANTA ANA, Calif. -- sTec, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state storage solutions, today announced it will showcase the recently introduced sTec(R) s3000 solid-state storage appliance ...
  June 12, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center S3500 Series Gives Cloud Computing Major Boost
  CLOUD COMPUTING EXPO -- Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series, its latest solid-state drive for data centers and cloud computing. Des
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Richard Edlund in San Francisco Chronicle
  Well, it was my high dive into the future,noted Edlund. "Interestingly, we used space-race technology, the solid-state circuitry, to develop the motion-control equipment that we were using for the space movie. So, NASA got us into space,...
• Steven Sasson in USA Today
  Sasson, who'd recently earned a master's in electrical engineering, said his supervisor, Gareth Lloyd, gave him a "very broad assignment: He just said, 'Could we build a camera using solid-state imagers?'" - a new type of electronic sensor known...
• Gordon Moore in InternetNews.com
  There have been a few times in the history of computing when a new technology becomes completely pivotal to changing the PC platform and the user experience,Moore said in a recent video presentation. "Solid-state drives have this...