RSSSamsung Debuts High Capacity Flash
By Ed Oswald | Published June 1, 2005, 1:17 PM
Samsung has developed a new line of Flash memory that will not only allow manufacturers to shrink devices even further, but also provide more space and higher speed than was previously thought possible.
The new technology will allow for up to 8GB of data to be stored on a single Flash chip, meaning devices will stay the same size while their storage capacities will be vastly increased. The 4-gigabit Flash memory chip will allow for 40 percent more chips to be put on each wafer of silicon.
Also, the new Flash memory writes and reads data faster than previous incarnations - at 16 megabytes per second. This would make the storage of real-time high-definition video possible on a Flash memory chip, Samsung says.
Samsung also recently announced a Flash-based disk drive based on these chips. Flash could eventually replace hard drives in laptops since they can operate faster, quieter and cooler than modern mobile drives.
Production on these chips began this week, a month ahead of schedule. The first Flash memory devices with the new technology will begin to appear in June, the company says. Samsung currently holds close to 56 percent of the global market for NAND Flash memory.
I dislike Samsung
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You could see this coming 12 months ago. Oh, the humanity!
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Actually they released an 18.2GB flash hdd last month...
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but the chips r cool;]
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so now a flash mp3 player can have more memory than my hard drive mp3 player..... this suks
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A great product as a result of this would be tapeless cameras. I do a lot of video taping, and one miniDV tape with 60 minutes of tape can equal about 12-15 gigs of storage. If I could buy say a 16 gig flash memory, then that would replace tapes in digital camcorders. Not to mention how much faster it could be xfered to my PC.
By the way, Samsung makes some great products. Just got a Samsung DLP HDTV. WOW is all I can say.
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Do you know how much those flash cards cost? :D
Better not be buying more than one or two. ;)
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It is not as amazing what Samsung have created today, but the prespective of what Samsung will create in the coming months or years.
considering there will be more companies making such breakthroughs, with more competition - we should soon see flash sized PCs along with a keyboard and a monitor.
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Yeah - like the cell phone in Zoolander. You'll sneaze and blow away your entire computer rig and all your "disks".
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:-) Damn I love Samsung!
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Sweet!
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