New Samsung Notebook Replaces Hard Drive With Flash
Well, Samsung will need to do something with all of that excess semiconductor capacity.
Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it will launch two mobile computers in early June that will do away with hard drives altogether, replacing them with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory. The notebooks will be the first to use flash memory as the main storage device.
The use of flash memory will allow the computers to enjoy several advantages, according to Samsung. Perhaps the most significant, according to the company, is that the Q30-SSD will operate in complete silence, lacking the quiet chatter of the hard drive or even a processor fan. The Q30 will include a 1.2-GHz Intel Celeron M 753, which will likely be passively cooled.
Not to mention faster, cooler and less power-hungry. The only negative is the price, and with the excess semi capacity soon that concern too may fade.Source: New Samsung Notebook Replaces Hard Drive With Flash
Disclosure: William Trent has a long position in SMH.
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