Samsung has earlier been propagating hard for their NAND-flash memory, and the potential they have for harddrivemanufacturing. Now they have stated their intentions for their NAND-flash memory, and they aren’t exactly shy. Samsung does claim that they will hold 20% of the entire harddrive-market as soon as 2008. Samsung estimates that the market for 8Gbit and 16Gbit NAND-flash chips will grow 2.5 times during 2006, and they are planning a 32-Gbit NAND-flash harddrive intended for PC-use.
“Samsung stated that with global desktop PC demand reaching 100 million units, the company aims to grab 20% of the related HDD market with its NAND flash drives. Samsung will boost the density of flash by 3-4 fold over the coming years in order to fulfill the goal and the company plans to debut 32GB NAND flash based HDDs for the desktop PC market.”
Mechanic harddrives are one of the most easily spotted bottlenecks in the computers of today and Intel has already techniques on its way to eliminate some of its downsides, but we are looking forward for Samsung’s continued strive for harddrives. Even though not all harddrive-manufacturers are not that convinced, which shows clearly in this statement from a Seagate-representative;
“When Samsung said hard disks are dead, I think they were being completely irresponsible, extremely short-sighted and simply weren’t telling the truth.”
Source: DigiTimes
