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To: Yousef who wrote (31367)	3/30/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

Well, he has his Volts and Watts confused a little bit, but otherwise it was an informative post. I don't know about "peoples pc", but it would be nice to move away from fans, mechanical devices and bulky cases. Hard disk will be a tough one to replace, since it is so cost effective. But let me ask you a question that you as an Intel guy may be able to answer. How much is flash memory per megabyte? ... looking myself through some press releases on Yahoo I found one with prices: biz.yahoo.com By combining 16-megabits with 1.8-volt technology .. blah blah .. The device is $8.50 in 10,000-piece quantities. Looks like it will be a while. 16 MB at $8.50 x 8 = $66.00 or $4.125 per megabyte, while you can get (several orders of magnitude slower) 10 GB hard disk for less than $200, or $0.02 per megabyte. A really nice thing would be a non-volatile memory that is in the performance ballpark of RAM, and cheap enough to be in the price ballpark of mechanical devices. I wonder if there is hard disk equivalent of Moore's law, and how it compares with semiconductor one (faster or slower?). I would really like the semiconductors to catch up. Joe PS: Can Intel make it so?