Flash Giant Offers 1.8 inch SSD

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Flash memory market leader, Samsung Electronics, has announced it has got its 1.8 inch solid state disc drive prodution line working producing 64GB SSDs in a move that should ultimately see the price begin to move. Initially, however, the mass produced drives will be offered to makers of premium notebook and subnotebook devices such as UMPCs. "We see sharply increasing interest in SSDs among OEMs worldwide amid a growing push to launch premium SSD-based notebooks, particularly in the ultra-mobile category," said Jim Elliott, director, flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor. Samsung's mass production of 64GB SSDs makes it the largest producer of high-capacity SSDs in the world. SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. SSD can also improve battery life by up to 20 percent in notebooks. The 64GB SSD consists of 64 eight Gigabit (Gb) single-level cell flash memory chips. Samsung is using a 51nm process technology which menas the device is all that much smaller. 51nm process chips having circuitry 1/2500th the width of a human hair. Samsung says it is aggressively expanding market development efforts for its SSDs. Industry wide attention on ultra-light, ultra-slim notebook PCs with flash memory based SSDs reflects early market support for this new storage medium. Samsung expects rapid expansion of the 1.8-inch SSD market will spark demand for even smaller SSD formats to be used in mobile consumer electronics. Other digital consumer products such as camcorders, PDAs and printers can now be equipped with SSDs ranging from 4GB to 64GB and Samsung has already introduced 32GB SSDs into ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPCs). However, SSDs also are being considered for server applications such as in advertising and for Web search engines since their performance is so much higher than traditional magnetic disc technology. The miniaturization of SSDs will give rise to new types of digital products. Over the next three years, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SSDs will also gain a great deal of momentum for widespread use in standard notebooks and desktop PCs, respectively. Samsung expects that sales of SSD units will increase at a rapid 270 percent pace industry-wide between now and 2010 to become the largest growth segment in the NAND flash industry. www.samsung.com Related news items Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 Sydney Airport Network Improved For APEC -03/09/2007 Solid State Drives Will Find A Home: IDC -12/08/2007 Consumer Electronics Takes Interest In 802.11n -12/08/2007 Mobile Apps Worth Billions To Operators -01/08/2007 Newer news items New Extneral Drives From Toshiba -07/07/2008 New Flash Memeory Card Standard Coming -16/09/2007 Greedy iPhones Gobble The Flash -18/07/2007 Older news items Spinning Disks Aren't Standing Still -14/05/2007 Lexar Express SSD Has Backup Intent -01/05/2007 Samsung's Announces 16Gb Flash -30/04/2007 Dell Drives Into Solid State Storage -29/04/2007 SSD Drive LifeBook Only For High Rollers -20/03/2007 Tag This Now: