Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon 166
jfruh writes "Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn't getting any cheaper. 'They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,' says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies in development, but they won't be able to beat NAND on price for years."
I am sure the "experts" are right... (Score:5, Insightful)
....having a perfect track record and all.
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Re:No! (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh goodie! It's the "Africa exists therefore you can't be dissatisfied with anything ever" argument.
Re:What a scam (Score:5, Insightful)
Made by machines in $10B fab plants that need to be payed off before they are obsolete.
Re:I am sure the "experts" are right... (Score:4, Insightful)
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C Clarke
Re: No! (Score:3, Insightful)
What exactly are we in the West supposed to do about it really? Play globo-cop? Encourage our governments to meddle in the affairs of other countries?
Really? What's the point of being fixated on other people's business?