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Micron recently announced that the 5300 SATA SSD is going EOL (End of Life) soon. First launched in 2019, Micron's 10th generation data center SATA SSD has been on the market for 3 years and it is now time to begin the EOL process. This drive is being replaced by the Micron 5400 SATA SSD, an advanced SATA SSD that is also the world's first with 176-layer NAND.

After 2 years of virtual exhibitions due to the pandemic, Display Week finally returned in person this year!

Professionals throughout the display industry met in San Jose from May 10-12 for many opportunities of networking with industry-leading manufacturers and suppliers, as well as exhibitions of display product demos and solutions.

Edge is excited to report that Display Week 2022 was a HUGE success! We were thrilled to be back in person to exhibit our product and solution demos with prospective customers.

Although this year's show was considerably smaller than in years past, we saw tremendous interest in our display solutions, as usual.

Edge's LCD Solutions Program provides customers with the perfect array of products to build a custom or off-the-shelf display solution that works perfectly in their specific application. The solutions start with a careful selection of the display and the combination of the most relevant features and accessories.

CNBC recently published an article titled "China’s lockdowns could trigger a logistics snarl that may ‘dwarf’ 2020 and 2021". While we are hopeful that is not quite the case, it is important for everyone in the electronics industry to pay attention to.

You might be seeing more OLEDs when you are shopping for a new TV at Best Buy, but did you know there is also a growing demand for OLEDs to be used in medical devices?

SATA SSDs have been popular for a long time as a replacement for HDDs

Around the turn of the century disk drive manufacturers started the transformation of previous disk drive interfaces to SATA. If your application was boot drive or system disk, the choice for interface for one drive would be SATA. In 2008, advancements had been made on the SATA interface to reach speeds of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) which was referred to as SATA III.

The 2021 Display Week Exhibition will be Virtual

It’s 2021 and the world has changed. We are getting back to somewhat normal, but we’re obviously not there quite yet.

Micron’s 1300 Series Client SATA solid state drives are now End of Life (EOL), and customers are asking about the migration path for SATA SSD users.

We have exciting news! Thanks to the continued focus and efforts of Grainger’s Supply Chain teams, we are now able to offer packs of N95 masks.