May 30, 2008 at 17:30Intel and Micron set records
On Thursday, Intel proudly announced its new achievement: its joint venture with Micron, IM Flash Technologies, for the first time in the world, began production of NAND memory chips using the 34 nm process technology. Under the cover of one serial chip, 32 GB of memory now fits, which is 2 times more than the previous record set by Samsung. Thanks to this, drives can now be made cheaper and with less energy consumption.
However, this achievement does not guarantee the electronic giants huge profits and a breakthrough in the fight against the main competitor - the same Samsung Semiconductor. The flash memory market in the United States continues its long decline, in view of the many times falling demand. Buyers already carry bulky flash drives, smartphones and players in their pockets and do not yet feel the need to change them to more capacious ones.
Based on this situation, IM Flash offers its new chips primarily to the business sector. The growing laptop market is starting to fill up models with SSDs. However, only now, even if a relatively high price is maintained, such models can be equipped with flash drives that are acceptable in volume.
However, this achievement does not guarantee the electronic giants huge profits and a breakthrough in the fight against the main competitor - the same Samsung Semiconductor. The flash memory market in the United States continues its long decline, in view of the many times falling demand. Buyers already carry bulky flash drives, smartphones and players in their pockets and do not yet feel the need to change them to more capacious ones.
Based on this situation, IM Flash offers its new chips primarily to the business sector. The growing laptop market is starting to fill up models with SSDs. However, only now, even if a relatively high price is maintained, such models can be equipped with flash drives that are acceptable in volume.