Samsung’s OneNAND flash memory, previously only available in densities up to 512Mb (that’s megabits), has now doubled and will be availble in 1Gb (that’s right, gigabit) shortly. This high-speed flash, for use in all kinds of mobile devices from cameras to PDAs, can be read at over 100MB (yes, megabytes) per second, which is four times faster than their previous NAND offerings and downright slaughters just about every other flash card around. Write speed is slower, just 10MBps, but that’s still three times faster than the fastest xD—fast enough to do rapidfire multi-shot at 5-megapixels or continuous VGA video. Samsung is still working to get NAND in more devices, and if they keep putting up numbers like that, they might just be successful.
Samsung Super Fast 1GB OneNAND [MobileMag]
