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From: tech101	6/26/2007 3:43:57 AM
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Huge growth expected for NAND-based solid state devices by David Manners Monday 25 June 2007 Samsung believes that the NAND flash-based SSDs (solid state devices) now being offered as an alternative to HDDs (hard disk drives) in laptops will be a market that grows at 270 per cent a year between now and the end of the decade. This will make SSDs the fastest growing segment of the NAND flash market. Samsung is currently making 64GB SSDs consisting of 64 8Gbit single-level cell (SLC) flash memory chips. Samsung has already introduced 32GB SSDs into ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPCs). SSDs also are being considered for server applications such as in advertising and for Web search engines. Other digital consumer products such as camcorders, PDAs and printers can now be equipped with SSDs ranging from 4GB to 64GB. "The interest in SSDs among OEMs is sharply increasing worldwide amid a growing push to launch premium SSD-based notebooks, particularly in the ultra-mobile category," said Gerd Schauss, director of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor Europe. SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. SSD can also improve battery life by up to 20 per cent in notebooks.

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