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Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-you'll-forget-to-send-in-the-rebate-anyway dept.

jfruh writes "Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn't getting any cheaper. 'They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,' says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies in development, but they won't be able to beat NAND on price for years."

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  1. I am sure the "experts" are right... by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ....having a perfect track record and all.

    1. Re:I am sure the "experts" are right... by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Especially when saying something won't happen ever.

      "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C Clarke

  2. Re:No! by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually this is as bad for the third world as well, because what do you think is used in all those ruggedized laptops and tablets in the middle of BF Africa? NAND Flash. The OLPC, smartphones (which is allowing many third world countries access for the first time to the WWW) all of these use NAND flash and as long as flash remains high it will hurt the poor more than those in the first world.

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  3. Re:No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh goodie! It's the "Africa exists therefore you can't be dissatisfied with anything ever" argument.

  4. Re:What a scam by afidel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Made by machines in $10B fab plants that need to be payed off before they are obsolete.

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  5. Re: No! by jedidiah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What exactly are we in the West supposed to do about it really? Play globo-cop? Encourage our governments to meddle in the affairs of other countries?

    Really? What's the point of being fixated on other people's business?

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