Soon we'll see smartphones, tablets and other mobile gadgets with 128 GB of internal storage.
Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it has gone into volume production of its eMMC Pro Class 1500, a 128 GB eMMC (embedded multimedia card) for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. That means upcoming phones and tablets will be able to store up to 15 full HD, 8 GB-equivalent video files.
The new 128 GB cards actually went into production last month, following the delivery of Samsung's eMMC Pro products in 16-, 32- and 64 GB densities. The new series can fit into an extremely slim 12 x 16-mm FBGA package that accommodates today's sleeker mobile designs. They also use Samsung's 64-gigabit (Gb) NAND memory with a toggle DDR2 interface based on the company's latest 20-nm class process technology.
"By doubling the highest density of its previous eMMC products, Samsung expects to contribute significantly to a timely release of leading-edge mobile devices," said Wanhoon Hong, executive vice president, Memory Sales & Marketing, Samsung Electronics. "The higher data storage and faster data transmission, will bring a range of benefits to users that compare to those of ultra-slim notebook PCs."
Samsung said the cards have sequential read speeds of up to 140 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 50 MB/s, five times faster than Class-10 rated external memory cards. For random reading and writing, the cards can process up to 3500 input IOPS and 1500 output IOPS. The NAND is also fully managed by a high performance controller and intelligent flash-management firmware.
Samsung also said on Thursday that its eMMC Pro Class 1500 supports the JEDEC eMMC v4.5 specification. "In being quick to mass produce the industry's most extensive eMMC v4.5 product line-up, Samsung anticipates that the proportion of premium NAND flash in the mobile market will grow even faster."
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and they will STILL buy them!
rofl
Watch apple mark these up sending their next-gen iDevices into the thousand dollar range.
Then again, since samsung's fabs gave apple the finger recently... maybe we WONT be seeing iDevices with 128Gb capacity anytime soon ^^
speeds as good as a hdd, and even my thumb drives have faster seak times than my hdd so i cant see these being worse
and they will STILL buy them!
rofl
Reducing the CPU/GPU power would also help. Holding a 750mW SoC chip in your hand crammed in a phone/tablet can get somewhat uncomfortably warm under load.
You mean there is no alternative with an Apple logo on it ?
Yeah, that seems to be true.
Otherwise...
I have a 265GB Vertex 4, which is made of sixteen 16GB chips. Same configuration from these chips would mean a 2TB SSD.
Goodbye mechanical drives forever. Can you believe we still use hard drives that have moving parts in 2012?
If mass produced, the price point will probably be very reasonable. Looking forward to the future.
considering most dvd movies are 8GB and bluray is the 8track of the 70's
not that many people have 20GB video unless it's home made and not many people are fit wink wink enough for more than 2 hours of home made video.
those must be some videos or have lots of people in them to keep going longer than most dvd's movie companies are able to fill
All assuming it has reasonable costs < $1/GB.
galaxy player may have good storage, but its a very big turd compared to the ipod. and this is coming from someone that hates apple. samsung needs to refresh their samsung player lineup to at least try to compete because ipod is dominating without any resistance in that area. 128gb chips in a phone or a revamped galaxy player would be amazing.