Flash Memory Will Rule, Says Samsung CEO

Saturday 8 October 2005 @ 9:06 am

As we have seen in the post of a Super Laptop, there is a possibility of having 1TB (Terabytes) (1,000GB) of memory and 2TB of storage space for a Laptop. Hence, you probably wont feel surprise when Dr Hwang Chang Gyu, the CEO of Samsung, one of the world’s largest flash memory manufacturer, suggested that laptop hard drives will be replaced by solid-state Flash memory in near future.

In fact, Samsung has just developed an incredible 16GB NAND chip using 50nm (Nanometre) technology. Seeing this technology breakthrough, Dr Hwang continued to suggest that NAND flash technology development continues to double density growth on an average of every 12 months. Hence hopefully by late 2006/07, we will see laptop memory with 32GB of NAND memory, based on nineteen of 16GB flash chips.

So, in other words, by end of next year, we will be expecting to see large capacity memory been integrated into products range from small mobile devices like mobile phones, PDA and mp3 players to laptop. Then in 2007, hopefully there will be 128GB memory cards available and at this point of time NAND flash could cross over into desktop PC. :)

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