Samsung Doubles Capacity of Flash Chips
Samsung Doubles Capacity of Flash Chips
October 26, 2007: The march of solid state storage technology continues, with Samsung announcing that it has achieved another breakthrough in the production of Flash memory.
The company says it has produced a 64Gb (8GB) NAND Flash chip using 30 nanometer technology, quite an achievement considering the thumbnail-sized chip can hold DVD-quality movies.
The Korean company is in heated competition with other manufacturers such as Toshiba to bring ramp up solid state storage technology, and was the first to produce 32Gb (4GB) chips last year.
It is aiming to begin mass production of both the 32Gb and 64Gb as soon as possible, with the 32Gb to begin rolling off production lines next year and the 64Gb in 2009.
What this announcement means for notebooks (at least for those going down the solid state disk road) is a dramatic increase in storage capacity due to the sheer density of these new chips. An increase that will likely give traditional magnetic storage a good run for its money.
Samsung estimates that the 64Gb Flash market will grow to US$20 billion (AU$) by 2011.
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