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Samsung Readies 32GB Memory Cards
Samsung Readies 32GB Memory Cards
High-capacity chip could boost handheld capacity to 8000 MP3 times or 20 DVD movies. Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service Monday, September 12, 2005 Samsung Electronics has announced a new flash memory chip that should pave the way for removable memory cards that can hold up to 32GB of data. Samsung's 16-gigabit NAND flash memory chip, which is slated to enter commercial production during the second half of next year, will be manufactured using a 50-nanometer production process, company representatives said. The new chip will allow memory-card makers to design cards with a capacity of 32GB by putting 16 of these chips into a single card. To put that into perspective, a 32GB memory card would be able to store 8000 MP3 audio files or 20 DVD-quality movies in a handheld device such as a mobile phone, according to Samsung. However, no memory-card makers have so far committed to producing 32GB memory cards based on the new chip. "We just announced this chip and we don't have any specific customers yet," said Suyeon Chae, a spokesperson for Samsung in Seoul. Storage Capacity Jumps At present, most removable memory cards come in capacities up to several gigabytes. For example, Pretec Electronics, a subsidiary of Taiwan's C-One Technology, began offering Secure Digital cards with a 4GB capacity last month. It claimed it was the first company to sell an SD card with that much capacity. In addition, the SD Card Association, an industry group established to promote the card format, has said SD cards with a capacity of 8GB are in the pipeline, but it has not said when they will be available. Samsung hopes to see flash memory become more widely used as a storage medium, including as a replacement for hard disk drives in some notebook computers. To this end, it announced plans earlier this year to introduce a flash-based replacement for hard drives. Called solid-state disks (SSDs), these hard drive replacements will initially be available in capacities up to 16GB, according to the company. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...091205X,00.asp === "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." -- Andrew Carnegie, 19th-century robber baron |
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