Good old Samsung and its obsession with thinness. After
finally letting its
30nm 32Gb NAND chips out of the bag in May, the Korean memory maker has now successfully halved the thickness of its octa-die memory package to a shockingly thin 0.6mm (or 0.02 inches). The new stacks will start out at a 32GB size, though the real benefits are likelier to be felt down the line when the ability to pack bits more densely pays off in even higher storage capacities. Cellphones, media players and digital cameras will inevitably take
the lion's share, but we're hopeful -- eternal optimists that we are -- that this could accelerate the decline of
SSD prices to a borderline affordable level. Intel and Micron
promised us as much, how about Samsung delivering it?
posted Nov 6th 2009 8:19AM
Damn it, you're nerds Engadget... you do us shame still mixing up GB and Gb. a 32 GB chip would be a big F'ing deal.
actually no, we're correct: eight 32Gb chips makes a 32GB package -- Thomas
Oh, I see what you meant now. I had to reread it several times over. You win... this round.
Yes! I thought I read 32GB as well. I was thinking to myself Holy Fin Shit balls.
Well, it's still pretty damn confusing... looks like the chips are clearly labeled "Gb", and although the article says "stacks", it doesn't define what a stack is... It says something about "octa-die" but doesn't call that a "stack", so its still pretty unclear.
You sure you didn't just make a mistake? ;)
At the very least, it's pretty damn confusing.
-Taylor
So now we can expect min32gb devices and higher, Yes?
I hope so, because the lack 32gb devices right now is so annoying
Cellphones, Media Players, and Digital cameras? yeah right, with the exception of apple. they're happy giving us 8MB chips to make us buy whatever new flash they've switched to.
I think a little research into the major flash memory consumers is required before making bold claims.
Don't sell it to Apple, unless you want to be out of the consumer electronics market for good.
I'd say Samsung has done pretty well with Apple.
@JOe: You're high. Apple has been the savior of the flash memory manufacturers with their insatiable hunger for storage on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPod Nano.
It's ALREADY sold to Apple... Apple paid Samsung 500 Million last fall (see Steve's "cash is king" comments) to pre-order chips. That gets them first place in line for new toys like this.
These are 32 Gb, which is only 4 GB, right?
Oh here we go:
"The new 0.6mm-thick package, which consists of eight identical dies (called an octa-die package), uses 30-nanometer class, 32 gigabit (Gb) NAND flash chips, each measuring just 15um*, to deliver a 32 gigabyte (GB) NAND solution."
Ah, well you quoted something that isn't the Engadget summary. No one on here reads the articles (which is fine).
-Taylor
Just give me a 128gb Sansa Clip already!!!
Or a Sansa Clip+
That would be so awesome!
This'll be nice.
I mean I'm a sucker for buying a cheap, new cellphone about once a year and most of them never, ever have any more internal memory than about 16MB. Why, cellphone manufactures? Half your cellphone cases are filled with quite literally, empty space! How can you not squeeze out a little more? It's not like flash memory is expensive nowadays. :| I've been seeing 'new' cheap cellphones as in, ones that don't really deserve much news coming with 8 or 16MB of internal memory for about the past 8-9 years, god damn.
as if,
another manufacturere wouldn't step into the MP3 and electronics void, if Apple couldn't retain Samsung prices of DRAM.
Basically wha Samsung is doing is suicide. Look at the lost marketshare Samsung is creating this quarter due to Apple's dominance.
I'd charge twice the price for Apple, if they were my DIRECT competitor, Not give Apple freaking discount.
And no, Samsung hasn't sold these specific DRAM chips yet.
Samsung's semiconductor division and Samsung's consumer electronics division are separate divisions within Samsung Electronics. They have their own agendas and strategies.
From a profit point of view, the company as a whole make more money selling semiconductors than consumer electronics. Even with a supposed "discount" they earn more money.