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
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But how much will it cost?
But will they wash the dishes?
It all moves SO fast. If I wasn't numb, I'd say I was in future shock.
If automotive technology had kept the same pace, I'd be having breakfast in Alpha Centuri. And throw away the car when I got there.
/johnny
Probably less than my S-100 4K card. Sigh....
And that was real money, back then. Better, anyway.
/johnny
We had an IBM XT given to us back in the late 1980’s. I remember upgrading the original 10MB HD to a GIANT Seagate 32 MB for “only” $279.
That’s over $485 in today’s dollars.
well that really dashes my hopes for a cassette in/out connector on my next phone!
I used to work at Computerland in the 80’s and would setup new computers.
AST Above boards were the memory board of choice then. 256K chips with 9 chips in a bank (8 data and 1 parity bits) and 4 banks to make one MB. The chips cost $50 each.
$50/chip
9 chips/bank
4banks / MB
2 MB/board
optional daughter board would hold 2 more MB.
Total over $7,000 for 4 MB of memory.
128GB does not equal 1TB.. something is wrong with their math.
Likely a typo as one 1TB is 1024gb
That thumbnail is now approaching or surpassing the capacity of the enter DASD farm where I worked 25 years ago (a DASD farm of the period was a big room with a collection of small refrigerator sized controllers each with a 12 inch cakebox on top that contained 8 discs). We stored 5 GB per spindle (each cakebox). The room required an enormous amount of power both to operate the devices and to cool them. Millions of dollars of equipment operated at thousands of dollars per month.
And the equivalent storage is now is for what? Is it going to be inserted into a computer? Is it part of an iPad? Is part of a phone?
I hope I have conveyed it well enough for the younger among you to appreciate it but this is technology advancing at breakneck speed. This is a million dollar computer floor in the palm of your hand!
128 GB == 1 Tb
1 tbs = 2 tsp
1 tbs = 2 tsp
1024 bytes = 1 KB
1024 KB = 1 MB
1024 MB = 1 GB
1024 GB = 1 TB (TERABYTE).
They still have them. They all them the headset/headphone jack ;)
They still have them. They all them the headset/headphone jack ;)
The quote was “...and grouping eight together will equal 1Tb, or 128GB of data storage in a small package about the size of a fingertip.”
So, eight of these chips together (larger than a fingertip) is 1TB, or you can have just one, which *would* be the size of your fingertip.
‘Course the craziest paradox and dilemma is that all you need is on this tinnie device you can hold in your hand, but to read it, to handle it all, you need a 24’’ screen!
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