2 M now to 90 M SSDs by 2010:
"According to Samsung, production of SSDs will increase from 1.7 million units this year to about 90million in 2010. That suggests they expect them to be used in an awful lot of notebooks, as well as smaller, handheld computers - and therefore the price will come down with a whack.
While they wait for the prices to crash, some notebook makers are beginning to offer a hybrid solution: a mix of hard drive and flash.
Dell Australia, for instance, offers 32GB SSDs as optional equipment on its Latitude range of notebooks aimed at business users, and may soon extend the option to consumer models. The SSDs cost $458.70.
Hewlett-Packard is said to be planning a lightweight notebook with flash memory, although it has yet to be launched in the US, let alone Australia.
Lenovo - which purchased the former IBM PC Company a couple of years ago - is also considering a hybrid model, Matthew Kohut, the company's worldwide competitive analyst, told the Aussie press on a recent visit here." |
