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Samsung Unveils 64-Gbit Flash Memory Chip

Posted by kdawson on from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.

Lucas123 writes "The chips can be combined to create a 128-GB flash storage device capable of holding up to 80 DVD movies or 32,000 MP3 music files. The chip was created using 30-nanometer processing technology that was developed with Samsung's self-aligned double patterning technology. Manufacturing will start in 2009; but the article quotes a Gartner analyst who reminds us, 'Samsung has had a difficult time adhering to its timelines for mass production due to the complexity of MLC architectures and ever shrinking process geometries.'"

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  1. God bless the summaries... by doyoulikeworms · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that provide storage sizes in units easy to relate with, namely pirated media.

  2. Oblig. Porn Comment by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if I can hold all my porn in one hand, and work the keyboard with the other...

    How's this supposed to work, again?

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    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  3. Don't ask "but how many writes before it fails?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every single fucking time a flash memory article is posted some bunch of fucktards asks the same damn bunch of asshat questions or makes the same stupid "observation".

    The claim is that flash memory will somehow wear out too quickly to be useful; or "only lasts a few thousand writes" or some other stupid ass comment.

    Please please please - look up older articles and read the comments or just read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling and shut up. Flash memory and its controllers have improved to the point where it's reasonable to expect an SSD to last longer than a typical PC or laptop's useful life.