Mass Production of Samsung 1.8-inch 64GB SSD Begins
June 25, 2007 at 02:23:00 AM, by Thai Tan
Sales of Solid State Drives are expected to increase at a rate of 270% between now and 2010.\n
Samsung tries to capture the early market for SSDs in notebooks, UMPCs and other digital consumer electronics.
Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of 64GB (Gigabyte) Solid State Drives (SSDs) in the 1.8-inch notebook hard drive form factor. The 64GB SSD consists of 64 eight Gigabit (Gb) single-level cell flash memory chips. Use of 51nm process technology permits fabrication of much smaller components, with each chip having circuitry 1/2500th the width of a human hair.
Samsung has already introduced 32GB SSDs for notebooks and UMPCs in particular. SSDs also are being considered for server applications such as in advertising and for Web search engines. Other digital consumer products such as camcorders, PDAs and printers can now be equipped with SSDs ranging from 4GB to 64GB.
Samsung's mass production of 64GB SSDs makes it the largest producer of high-capacity SSDs in the world, according to reports. Samsung's 1.8-inch SSD with 32GB storage capacity retails for $480.
Rapid expansion of the 1.8-inch SSD market will spark demand for even smaller SSD formats to be used in mobile consumer electronics. 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.
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