Samsung now will also increase its production volume of SSDs with densities over 500GBs for wider adoption of SSDs in computer systems, while leading the transition of main storage drives in the notebook market from harddisk drives (HDDs) to SSDs.
In a report last week tech tracker iSuppli found that rising sales of tablet computers are hurting notebook PC sales, resulting in a decline in sales of traditional harddisk drives which rely on spinning magnetic disks.
Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.