80 movies on single card!
p2pnet news | Product News:- Samsung says its developed the world’s first 64-gigabit flash memory chip.
Based on 30-nanometer production technology, it can help produce a 128-gigabyte memory card able to store up to 80 DVD-quality movie files running for 120 hours, Samsung said in a regulatory filing, according to the Korea Times.
A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter and, “Fewer nanometers mean that more integrated chip products can be manufactured,” says the story.
“Thirty nanometers measures only one 4,000th of the width of a strand of hair.”
Market research firm iSuppli is predicting demand for NAND flash chips used for personal computers will soar an average of 450 percent annually from 2007 through 2011, while that for mobile phone chips will rise 130 percent on average during the same period, says the Korea Times, adding:
“Unlike dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, the conventional memory chips used for personal computers, flash memory can retain and store information even when a device’s power is turned off. For this reason, it is gaining popularity for use in portable electronic devices.”
Toshiba has said it’s also working with similar technology, says the BBC.
“Both firms will release products in 2009,” it says.
That awful noise you hear is the entertainment cartels and grinding their combined teeth. They’ll see this as a terrible threat rather than another new product of the digital 21st century to be refined to their advantage.
Also See:
Korea Times – Samsung Unveils World’s First 64-Gigabit Flash Memory Chip, October 23, 2007
BBC – Tiny chips flash memory advance, October 23, 2007
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October 23rd, 2007 at 8:56 am
Huh?
Jon, where is the news part in it?
“Samsung says its developed the world’s first 64-gigabit flash memory chip.”
64gigabit = 8 gigabyte = 8GB = Sandisk has CF cards with that capacity already, so what am I missing/not understanding about this Samsung “news”?
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 am
chill out. tis simply a typo, the first “gigabit” should be “gigabyte”
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Ahem. Cough, cough. So you spotted one of today’s deliberate mistakes, eh, Alter_Fritz? (Thanks, Bo
)
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:10 am
at least you know the differece between byte and bite
“A maximum of 16 64-gigabit flash devices could be combined to produce a 128-gigabite memory card, helping to make the card capable of storing 80 DVD movies or 32,000 MP3 music files and even DNA information of 40 individuals, Samsung said Tuesday.”
so not your fault then, Jon. (even if those figures in the korean Times make no sense again 16×64 != 128)
( my Korean is nonexistent and babelfish not really usable for korean -> english http://www.samsung.co.kr/news/biz_view.jsp?contentid=117902 )
October 24th, 2007 at 11:13 am
You guys have a serious problem with math.
There is no typo. 64-gigabit = 8 gigabyte. 16 x 64-gigabit = 16 x 8 gigabyte = 128 gigabyte.
Alter_Fritz, it’s irrelevant that Sandisk has 8GB card. It’s the increase of the size of the chip that matters, because now with the 64-gigabit (8 gigabyte) chips they will be able to produce much more that 8GB card. Hint: there are more than one chips in a card.