Posted on 12/07/2011 8:23:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The die will be fabbed on a 20nm process and grouping eight together will equal 1Tb, or 128GB of data storage in a small package about the size of a fingertip. The firms said the device will be going into mass production in the first half of next year and will be ideal for smartphones and tablets.
Glen Hawk, VP of NAND solutions at Micron said, "As portable devices get smaller and sleeker, and server demands increase, our customers look to Micron for innovative new storage technologies and system solutions that meet these challenges,"
"Our collaboration with Intel continues to deliver leading NAND technologies and expertise that are critical to building those systems."
Samples will be available to vendors next month, so we could see devices such as smartphones and tablets launched with this storage technology next year.
The 128Gb capacity flash is twice the storage size of the companies' existing 20nm 64Gb NAND device. Intel and Micron said the new capacity device meets the ONFI 3.0 specification of speeds up to 333MT/s.
Rob Crooke, VP of memory solutions at Intel said, "It is gratifying to see the continued NAND leadership from the Intel-Micron joint development with yet more firsts as our manufacturing teams deliver these high-density, low-cost, compute-quality 20nm NAND devices." µ
Nope.. 8 of them are just over 800GB..
8 X 1024= 8192GB
never mind.. my math went fuzzy on me. never freep and do other things at the same time.
Hmmmm. Why do I feel a bit queasy about what a guy named Rob Crooke has to say? Must be tough going through life with a name like that.
As I said, “128 GB == 1 Tb” and the article is correct on all accounts. The lowercase ‘b’ denotes bits, and uppercase ‘B’ denotes bytes. One byte contains 8 bits. 128 GB * 8 == 1024 Gb == 1 Tb.
Sweet!
How much longer before we get self aware machines and we have to go through the whole Terminator routine?
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....cool....
According to Al Gore we are doomed anyway. The rising seas will drown us all as early as in 2011.
grouping eight together will equal 1Tb, or 128GB of data storage in a small package about the size of a fingertip.
wow.. impressive.
ROFL!
The chips store 128 gigabits.
8 chips will store 1 terabyte.
Yes. SD cards for photo/videography now reach 64GB. My iPad has 64GB flash; you can be sure the next version (with "retina" display demanding much more storage) will be at least 128GB. iMacs have 256GB flash storage as an option; this will make those much cheaper. Phones, now maxing at 32GB, will soon be there.
Yeah. The DASD farms we both knew back then as storing the "digital crown jewels" of the corporation at costs of millions for equipment & personnel are now squished into your pocket for convenient access to your music & video entertainment at a cost of a couple day's pay. ...and at the same time, Google is well on its way to living up to its name (meaning "10^100") in storage capabilities.
FWIW, I just picked up a cassette player with a USB port for $14.
16GB flash drives are about $15 and 64GB are $99. For it to sell, it can't be out of line with those numbers.
The article says they are ganging 8 together to get the terabyte.
Having a discussion like this just 30 years ago would have been unthinkable.
In 5 years we'll be talking about petabytes.
And I don't know the greek prefixes after that. I'm going to need to study. And need more memory.
/johnny
Oy.. I worked at a DOD contractor who shall remain un-named except for unofficial moniker of "Shade-tree AeroSpace" for their aviation branch....
They had one of those. Robot arms and mechanical devices moving large hot-plug devices. I won't say the numbers that thing sold for.... But it took more room than my house.
Kurzweil was right. Log/Log growth is kicking ass.
/johnny
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