32 gig memory stick

[atholon]

You guys hear about this? Samsung is releasing a chip that can stor 20 DVD movies that is so small it can fit in a cell phone.

[Stu]

really, thats prettey awesome. Cant find any source on it though
-Tecceh2

[atholon]

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.

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[Jeff]

Whats the estimated cost for one?
Few hundred at least, if not a thousand.

like a Memory Stick Duo Pro card (2mb) when it came out was like 300

[BADDOG]

That's quite incredible!!!!

Regards

[Stu]

that'll be cool ... but yeah, it'll be expensive. The ipod is a memory stick on wheels, with a big price tag attached to it
-Tecceh2

[-live-wire-]

Holy Storage Batman!

[Lucky]

who would use a 32g memory stick?

[Scott]

saw it on news.com yesterday.. they hope to be able to double the side with it just being slightly bigger.

[JonM]

Originally posted by Living
who would use a 32g memory stick?

that's what people were saying when they came out with the 700 mb cds... anyways i'm glad the more space hte more prices will drop on ipods, memory sticks etc. I'm excited!

[atholon]

Read the article, you could watch full length movies on your cell phone. That would be freggin' awesome.

I would say that it would probably close to the thousands in cost. The five gb flash cards cost a few hundred.

[Stu]

Originally posted by Living
who would use a 32g memory stick?

you'll be surprised