Mobile phones have taken another step towards becoming full-fledged pocket computers with an announcement by Micron and Intel. Get ready to carry even more of your digital life on your phone.
The 128Gb NAND device, a world’s first, is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the memory and chip manufacturers. It uses MLC technology and has to potential to store as much as 2 terabytes of data on a 2.5-inch SSD drive — 128GB per chip — and perform as many as 33 megatransfers per second on an eight die form. It goes on sale in January and is expected to quickly outpace the 64Gb version that is already in production.
You’ll find NAND flash memory in most SD card formats and SSD’s as well as many USB drives as it offers superior densities and greater fault tolerances than NOR memory. So expect to see huge capacity gains in phones, cameras, thumb drives — just about anything with non-volatile memory. [Slashgear - ArsTechnica]
Anonymouse
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:32 PMAwesome.
moloko
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:39 PMMeh
Blake
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:58 PMThe editor should be more careful, this article is about getting 2.5TB SSD Drives, not SD cards as the headline would suggest.
Marrowmaw
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 6:52 PMThis.
Jack Frost
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:36 PMExactly, There is nothing stating that is was SD cards at all just 128gb 2.5 SSD?!
Jack
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:15 PMDAMN, you got me all excited there for super-storage SD cards…
Puddiepants
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:23 PMDid anyone read that last paragraph?
Sure, the 128GB NAND device was developed for a SSD but that will translate into many other storage devices is my understanding
Stu
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 1:30 PMYes, but that doesn’t mean they will squish 2 terabytes on an SD card.
128gb would be mental though