Future of Flash revealed

WERE YOU TO ASK what is the integral part of practically almost all CES products (CE, cars, PC - does not matter), there'a s one-word answer: Flash.

Flash memory is everywhere with firms handing out 1GB, 2GB and even 16GB drives willy-nilly.

But the best is yet to come. And Taiwanese memory company A-DATA is here to show off the next generation of flash hard drives.

32GB ExpressCard, 64GB for sub-notebooks, and big daddy, 128GB monster

A-DATA is currently sampling 32GB SSD in a ExpressCard size, 64GB in 1.8" notebook size and a massive 128GB one in 2.5" form with classical SATA-II connectors. Mass production is slated for late Q1 and early Q2, with availability expected to follow right after the start of production.

Differences between 1.8" and 2.5" aren't limited to size only, but the performance of SSD is roughly the same

Pricing is as yet unannounced but the product manager for the line-up explained that with the prices of the SSD drives coming down by half, year on year, you might expect that late Q4 will bring a generation of sub-notebooks that could break even with the mobile hard drives. µ