Samsung Launches NAND Flash-Based Solid State Disk for Mobile PCs.TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced at the Mobile Solution Forum that it has begun offering a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND (Not AND) A Boolean logic operation that is true if any single input is false. Two-input NAND gates are often used as the sole logic element on gate array chips, because all Boolean operations can be created from NAND gates. See flash memory. flash-based solid state disk (SSD See solid state disk. ) -- marking the first time that NAND flash See flash memory. has moved into mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings applications. The 32GB Flash-SSD, which serves the same purpose as a hard disk drive, is a sophisticated data storage medium for notebooks and other mobile computers. It uses instantly-accessible, non-moving NAND flash memory instead of the rotating ro·tate v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates v.intr. 1. To turn around on an axis or center. 2. discs found in hard drives; therefore can upload and download data quickly and quietly with minimal power consumption. The Flash-SSD weighs only half as much as a comparably-sized hard drive, but reads data three times faster and writes data 1.5 times faster. The SSD uses just five percent of the electricity needed to power a hard disc drive and is noiseless noise·less adj. Making or marked by no noise. See Synonyms at still1. noise  less·ly adv. . Its design is free of any
motor or other mechanical parts.The commercialization of Samsung's 32GB Flash-SSD is a historic milestone for storage devices as it marks the initial entry of NAND flash memory in the mass mobile PC market. Samsung sees the overall global SSD market surging from US$540 million in 2006 to US$4.5 billion by 2010.
Solid State Disk Market Forecast by Web-Feet Research Aug. '05
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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Units (thousands) 582 1,153 1,940 2,453 2,693
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Market Volume (US$ millions) 538 1,225 2,098 3,210 4,482
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Flash-SSD / HDD Feature Comparison
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Samsung's Flash-SSD (1.8" type) 1.8" HDD
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Capacity 32 GB 30 GB / 20 GB
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Weight 15 g 61 g
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Speed Read 57MBps, Write 32MBps Read/Write 15MBps
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Power Consumption Off 0.1 W, On 0.5 W 1.5 W
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Endurance -20 -- 80 0 -- 60
Temperature (degrees Celsius) (degrees Celsius)
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About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence In the days of the first computers, transaction and company data were the first types of information digitized. Then came text, opening the world to word processing, followed by audio CDs and finally video. technologies with 2005 parent company sales of US$56.7 billion and net income of US$7.5 billion. Employing approximately 128,000 people in over 90 offices in 51 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Appliance Any apparatus controlled by a computer. It may refer to an actual household appliance (coffee maker, toaster, etc.) that is computerized, but often refers to a handheld device such as a pager, cellphone or PDA. See Internet appliance. Business, Digital Media Business, LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com |
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