“Toshiba Semiconductor Company’s President Shozo Saito took the platform at the seminar hosted by IDEMA Japan and delivered a speech on future prospects of NAND flash memory and SSD (solid state drives) April 18, 2008. In the lecture, he forecast that 25% of all notebook PCs will be equipped with an SSD in 2011,” Mami Akasaka reports for Tech-On!
“Toshiba’s flash memory business basically aims at enhancing production capacity and reducing costs through miniaturization and maltivaluing. Expecting the NAND flash memory market to rapidly expand 133% every year on average from 2006 through 2010, Toshiba plans to fortify its production capacity even faster than that, it said,” Akasaka reports.
“Toshiba is planning to extend its SSD lineup, which currently ranges from 32 to 128 Gbytes, up to 512 Gbytes in the future. Saito is considering the compartmentalization of SSDs for 512 Gbytes or less and HDDs for more in the market for memories used in notebook PCs. He also predicted products with built-in SSD to account for 10% of all notebook PCs in 2010 and 25% in 2011,” Akasaka reports.
“Saito also stated SSD’s pricing disadvantage compared with HDDs can also be gradually reduced. According to Toshiba’s estimates, unit price of NAND flash memory per 1 Gbyte is currently 2.9 and 6.4 times that of 1.8- and 2.5-inch HDD, respectively,” Akasaka reports. “If the NAND price is lowered 50% every year from now on, however, the price gaps will be shrunk to 1.4 and 3.2 times the price of 1.8- and 2.5-inch HDD, respectively, he said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
lets hope the huge failure rate in SSD’s comes down to!
uhhh.. ok.
I guess it’s like how DVDs were 10 bucks per disk at the beginning, and now you can get a spool of them for that…
-Pi
Fine … then get the lead outta yer ace and git em in our MacBooks
It can’t happen fast enough. Conventional HDs on a MacBook Pro are like a coal-fired steam engine on a Nissan GT-R
After the HD-DVD fiasco. Toshiba must keep competitive with something. Wasn’t Intel releasing some competing product of their own?
@ ApplePi
Back in My day… At PhotoDisc we had an old JVC CD burner that cost 15 grand, and CDs cost 13 bucks a piece (in bulk!). It was a 1X burner – yes, it too 72 minutes to burn a full CD.
This was about 1995. How far we’ve come!
Read/Write speed is a greater issue than capacity.
Bob, what are the stats you have on the failure rate of SSD’s?
Oh boy. Here we go again. The old geezers are at it again with their reminiscing.
Watch it with the old geezer dis
We were young and stupid once too
A long, long time ago…I member when hammered out the metal just so we could make our own tubes…. those were the days….Ewh…don’t they still use tubes…inner-tubes.. tube steaks…tube net …or something like that…
“The old geezers are at it again with their reminiscing.”
I guess that means you have no plans to age. How sad for you.
That’s nothing – my first HD was made of wood. Had to worry about rot, and termites…..
@ NeonRed
Speak for yourself! I’m STILL young and stupid!!!!
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Except the world is going to end in 2012, so we’ll only have one year to use these cool new drives….
maltivaluing?
what next? chocenhancing?
I’ll buy a Mac Book -my first notebook- when Apple loads them with SSD. Can’t wait.
maltivaluing – ooh, that’s sounds tasty!
hey Chrissy, back in my day, new Cadillacs were $5000, and gas was 19.9c/gallon full service. Now…oh wait, that’s just the opposite. Never mind.
“I guess it’s like how DVDs were 10 bucks”
What’s a DVD, is it some primitive precursor to a Blu-Ray disk?