Samsung Shows OneNAND At WinHEC
By John Stith
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-04-25
Samsung shows off its new OneNAND flash hard drive for use with Microsoft's new Longhorn operating system this week at the WinHEC event in Seattle.
The new technology promises to save energy and repair times with notebook computers and will use the 64-bit technology being utilized in the new version of the Windows operating system.
The new technology is quite exciting. The new hybrid system will work with current hard drive architecture. The flash system will be a sort of temporary storage place for information. When it gets full, it will transfer information onto the hard drive. The energy saved by not having the hard drive spindle constantly running should be fairly high. This will also benefit the notebooks, as it will keep them hard drives from being used as often.
The 4Gb OneNAND memory is a quad die package (QDP) developed by stacking four 1Gbit OneNAND memory chips in a 90 nanometer production process developed last November
Samsung also foresees this going into mobile phones, pdas, game consoles.
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John Stith is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
