In June 2006, Samsung released the first flash-memory based PCs, the Q1-SSD and Q30-SSD, both of which used 32 GB solid-state devices.
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The company will relabel and sell Virident PCIe solid state storage devices and is using its investment and board seat with the company to leverage work to develop the next generation of PCIe and SOP storage solutions including hardware as well as software components.
Those interested in digital storage and the development of consumer, computer and enterprise technology will want to keep their eyes peeled for development next week and in the future as very useful solid state storage devices assumes greater importance in the overall digital storage hierarchy.
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Increased adoption of low-power processors and solid-state storage devices.
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Commonly called SSDs or Solid State Disks, these devices put NAND flash into computing environments that typically would use hard disk drives, or HDDs.
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Those newfangled devices rely almost exclusively on solid-state hard drives, and smartphones outsold PCs for the first-time last year.
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Over 8 times as many gigabytes of NAND flash memory has shipped than DRAM, making flash memory the largest solid state memory device on the market and enabling many mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers.
Another part of the tablet boom are memory companies like Micron Technologies and SanDisk that make the solid state drives that are used in light-weight tablet devices will be in a good place to benefit from the consumer demand for the products, says Mosesmann.
Finally storage tiering and the combinations of storage and memory are undergoing a revolution as flash memory and perhaps other solid state storage technology such as MRAM find niches in more and more devices.
Other computer makers are now following suit with slim devices that forgo economical and capacious hard drives for slim solid state storage.
SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market.
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