No we won't! Keyboards can be projected onto the desktop!
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Posted on 09/12/2005 5:47:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Samsung Elec unveils powerful new flash memory chip
Sun Sep 11,11:28 PM ET
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Monday it would start producing next year the world's highest-density flash memory chip, capable of boosting storage in hot-selling devices such as music players and digital cameras.
Samsung (005930.KS), which already controls nearly 60 percent of the world's NAND flash market, said in statement commercial production of the new chip would start in late 2006.
The global flash memory market is expected to be worth $10.14 billion this year, up from $7.01 billion last year, according to Dataquest.
The 16-gigabit NAND memory device was developed using 50-nanometre technology, the South Korean company said.
This marked an improvement on an 8-gigabit chip processed using 60-nanometre technology, according to Samsung.
Once the chip was incorporated into a 32-gigabyte memory card, users of portable digital devices would be able to store some 200 years of articles from daily newspapers or some 8,000 MP3 music titles capable of playing for 680 hours, Samsung said.
Ping!
Flash memoris, CCDs, MS-chips are really improving the way we live. More power to Nanotechnology VLSI Integration !!!!
This could make some VERY small notebook/palm computers more practical!
We're gonna need smaller fingers!!!
All portable technology leaps ahead, except batteries.
WOW
The RIAA immediatly said the chip should be banned because it will encourage piracy.
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Remember when American companies brought out all the new, cool stuff?
And that pretty sums it up. The downward spiral continues...
Since display size is the prime driver in palmtop size, I would say that these huge flash memories would make palmtops, etc. far more capable, rather than smaller.
There are already GPS units that can be worn on an armband, that communicate with palm-size PCs via Bluetooth. Even now is it possible to download a small section of a USGS topographic map to one of these, and have <10-meter accurate cross-country GPS navigation in the palm of your hand.
As an archaeologist/historian who is working on a detailed road atlas for pre-and revolution era Texas, the possibility of "palm-navigating and mapping" along forgotten roadways on detailed maps and IR aerial orthophoto maps is almost like a dream come true!
Maybe now we'll see some D1 resolution, full frame rate solid state camcorders with no moving parts.
"Remember when American companies brought out all the new, cool stuff?"
You're right, but you know, this is another obvious point that is missed by our MSM. Look at the stark differences between a democratic S. Korea and it's northern commie neighbor. It is truly remarkable, yet no one remarks...
Samsung engineers should now go back and rethink their microwave ovens, I loved my first one but the second one died an early and unfortunate death due to a inferior transformer.Probably a Indonesian transformer.
Beaucoup storage, on a tiny patch of real estate, with no moving parts.
IMHO that doesn't spell doom.
Of course, none of us will ever have to work in the way that we know work today. Robots will do pretty much everything for us at that point.
In the very near future, we will get wearable computers. We will actually have keyboards built into our jeans.
Don't laugh. On the left pant leg will be the ASDF side and on the right pant leg will be the JKL; side.
The monitor will be built into our glasses (if you don't wear glasses, you soon will) and when you hit print, the copies will come out of your butt. Figuratively speaking, of course.
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