Samsung Unveils 64-Gbit Flash Memory Chip

Lucas123 writes "The chips can be combined to create a 128-GB flash storage device capable of holding up to 80 DVD movies or 32,000 MP3 music files. The chip was created using 30-nanometer processing technology that was developed with Samsung's self-aligned double patterning technology. Manufacturing will start in 2009; but the article quotes a Gartner analyst who reminds us, 'Samsung has had a difficult time adhering to its timelines for mass production due to the complexity of MLC architectures and ever shrinking process geometries.'"

Combine

[MyLongNickName]

So you can combine 16 of these to get 128GB. Can you combine 32 to get 256GB? And what if you combine 128 of them for 1TB!? The possibilities are endless.

Re:64Gb = 8GB = incremental improvement

[MyLongNickName]

Yup. This is why I prefer my bytes to be 16 bits long. My memory addressing is much more efficient this way.

God bless the summaries...

[doyoulikeworms]

...that provide storage sizes in units easy to relate with, namely pirated media.

Re:Combine

[jimstapleton]

no, no, it's not like that. Flash memory chips are like uranium/plutonium/etc - once a chunk reaches a certain mass (depending on purity), they have a habit of exploding.

See, if you combine 16 of them, you'll probably just lose your computer, and be otherwise ok. However at 256, the room your computer is in will probably be a lost cause. At 128? Good by city.

Oblig. Porn Comment

[R2.0]

So if I can hold all my porn in one hand, and work the keyboard with the other...

How's this supposed to work, again?

Re:Storage size limit?

[Drizzt Do'Urden]

I'd prefer 128 YodaBytes, and let the force hold my data!

Re:Bad math

[Rob T Firefly]

How much does that work out to in Libraries of Congress?

Re:Combine

[William Robinson]

See, if you combine 16 of them, you'll probably just lose your computer, and be otherwise ok. However at 256, the room your computer is in will probably be a lost cause. At 128? Good by city.

What's the point in blowing up just a room, when I could blow up entire city with half the number of chips.:-P

Re:Combine

[MindKata]

What's the point in blowing up just a room, when I could blow up entire city with half the number of chips.:-P

256 is a more stable computer number than 128

Will they be arrested for conspiracy to commit...

[Simonetta]

Will they be arrested for conspiracy to commit piracy? Let's see 30,000 MP3 songs at $250,000 each time 1,000,000 chips. A lot of zeros means a lot of money! Everyone knows that if you sell a memory device that can hold 20000 MP3 songs that all but a handful will be 'pirated', that is to say copied without permission of their so-called owners. No one except loud-mouth fuckhead billionaire Steven Jobs is actually paying $30000 for 30,000 iTune songs. So if you make a device that facilitates file copying, aren't you guilty of conspiracy to commit intellectual property fraud?

    And don't tell me that there are alternative legal uses for hard drives and memory chips. After all, isn't the scope of the intellectual property crisis dire enough to overrule such petty and superficial uses of these devices? Isn't that what the entertainment industry is telling us? Aren't they the most important 'industry' in the USA and the world?

  In my town any teenager can have his life ruined by being arrested for having a little piece of blank paper in his pocket. The pigs (excuse me, I meant to say 'the Republicans') here call it 'conspiracy to possess marijuana paraphernalia', and it means just a cigarette rolling paper. And it's a serious crime with serious time.

  But every consumer electronics store in the city sells drives and media that are specifically used to commit so-called 'intellectual property theft'. Listening to music, having a little scrap of paper in your pocket, even suggesting that this is all nothing but corrupt,racist, selective law enforcement, it's enough to get you arrested and thrown into the vast American rape-torture gulag.

  But if the MPAA/RIAA is so smart and so bad, then why aren't they actually going up face-to-face, lawyer-to-lawyer against the manufacturers that make the hard drives and memory chips? Sure they'll go after single mothers making $8/hr and win $250,000 with their $300,000/yr lawyers and hand-written laws. But will they go after the Fry's, Walmarts, and BestBuys for selling the drives, PCs, and modems that make it possible for ordinary people to 'steal' their 'intellectual property'? Why not? They have the money, they have the lawyers, they have the testicles! So where's the beef?

  If they won't do this, then the entire music and entertainment global industry (it's what now, four giant companies?) should be taken over by the government as a RICO enterprise. We should make them do it. After all, it's us that are the most embarrassed by this corrupt extortion. Why aren't we doing anything about these assholes? Of course, they will self-destruct on their own, but they will do a lot of damage on the way down. We should put our collective heads together and deliver a coup-de-grace to these pathetic losers. Consider it a mercy killing. Which is legal here, but carrying a little piece of rice paper is not.

Re:Storage size limit?

[jollyreaper]

I'd prefer 128 YodaBytes, and let the force hold my data!

Yeah, but then Lucas will come along every few years and make changes to your data to bring it more in line with his original vision.

Re:God bless the summaries...

[CompSci101]

Hey, I'm an American, and I can't think in these fancy units. I have no idea how you'd represent this in Football Fields.

How many Car Analogies is that, and how many ripped DVDs equal a Football Field?

Have we no standards anymore?

C

Re:Combine

[dgatwood]

Danger, Will Robinson. You have just been added to the terror watch list [slashdot.org]. So now it's 755,001.

Re:Bad math

[raulzero]

No, you're not the only one. I, for one, will not be buying a bag of these "chips" until they can hold data other than just music and video.

Analogies

[mrbluze]

I collect baseball fields. Currently I can fit 0.0000000012 baseball fields on a flash drive, how many can I fit onto one of these?

I used to collect Libraries of Congress, but after the first one I couldn't find any others.