Samsung mass produces 64GB SSDs

CHAEBOL, SAMSUNG SAID it has begun mass-producing 1.8-inch solid-state drives at 64GB capacity.

The drives will find their way into notebook computers, which is where Samsung reports seeing “sharply increasing interest in SSDs,(...)particularly in the ultra-mobile category.”

SSDs offer greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. They can can also improve battery life by up to twenty percent in notebooks, Samsung says.

Samsung's 64GB SSD consists of 64 eight Gigabit (Gb) single-level cell flash memory chips. The firm has already introduced 32GB SSDs. Now it claims the mass production of 64GB SSDs makes it the largest producer of high-capacity SSDs in the world.

Is says the expansion of the 1.8-inch SSD market will spark demand for even smaller SSD formats and give rise to new types of digital products.

Samsung expects sales of SSD units to increase by 270 per cent by 2010. µ