Think your mobile device couldn’t eat another byte, that it’s stuffed packed with storage? Surely it has room for a tiny little thin SSD? This is often Sandisk‘s solution for storage in portable devices, the creation of a new class of storage: integrated SSD, or iSSD. Designed to be soldered right onto a motherboard, this drive is the dimensions of a postage stamp, weighs just like a paperclip, and may be available in sizes ranging from 4 to 64GB. Read and writes clock in at 160MB/sec and 100MB/sec, respectively, plenty fast enough to run a whole OS, with an SATA interface ensuring broad compatibility. Early units come in now, with bulk orders shipping soon. Now, what number would you love? Just the only, monsieur?
Category Serves Fast-Growing Market for Ultra-Thin Tablets and Mobile Computers
SanDisk® integrated SSD (iSSD) is smaller than a postage stamp and weighs below a paper clip
Fastest high capacity embedded storage solution at this physical size-designed for prime performance and reliability for mobile computing platforms
Broad range of capacities available to OEM customers-4GB to 64GB
Market research firm IDC establishes ” Embedded SSD” category for highly portable consumer electronics devices
Flash Memory Summit 2010
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced the first product in a new category of embedded solid state drives (SSD) which are smaller than a postage stamp and offer higher capacities and performance than existing storage solutions. The SanDisk® integrated SSD (iSSD), the first high-capacity product within this new category, is designed for use in fast-growing mobile computing platforms which includes tablet PCs and ultra-thin notebooks.
” New embedded SSDs equivalent to the SanDisk iSSD drive, which meet the stringent size requirements of small and light-weight devices while offering greater performance, are designed to enable OEMs to deliver an enhanced user experience in their next-generation designs.”
Computing platforms are responding to consumer demand for highly portable, ultra-thin, anywhere-anytime access to the net and their favorite content. The SanDisk iSSD drive is the first flash SSD device to support the industry standard SATA interface in a small BGA (Ball Grid Array) package that may be soldered onto any motherboard, and it’s fast enough for use with advanced operating systems in next-generation mobile computing platforms.
” The recent category of embedded SSDs should enable OEMs to supply tablets and notebooks with an unprecedented combination of thin, lightweight form factors and fast performance,” said Doron Myersdorf, senior director, SSD marketing, SanDisk. ” With our embedded flash storage leadership, SanDisk believes it can be uniquely positioned to deliver the ultra compact SSD solutions needed by OEMs.”
” The ultra-thin tablet and mobile computer markets are expected to experience tremendous growth over the arrival years, and new advanced platforms will introduce new requirements for storage solutions,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, solid state drives, IDC. ” New embedded SSDs which include the SanDisk iSSD drive, which meet the stringent size requirements of small and light-weight devices while offering greater performance, are designed to enable OEMs to deliver an enhanced user experience in their next-generation designs.”
The SanDisk iSSD offers 160MB/sec sequential read and 100MB/sec sequential write speeds for greater system responsiveness*. Without moving parts, the tiny, robust drive is designed to deliver the durability needed by portable devices which might be frequently dropped or jostled. SanDisk iSSD offers a substantial level of design flexibility for OEMs who seek to create a better generation of tablets and ultra thin mobile devices based on the typical SATA interface.
The SanDisk iSSD is offered now for sampling to OEMs, and is being evaluated by top-tier manufacturers. Measuring 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm and weighing lower than one gram, the drive uses a BGA form factor and a SATA interface, and is compatible with all leading operating systems. SanDisk iSSD is accessible in capacities ranging from 4 gigabytes (GB)1 to 64GB, with pricing dependent upon the amount ordered.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards – from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk’s product portfolio includes flash memory cards for cellphones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the us.
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
*Based on SanDisk internal testing of sequential read and write speeds; Performance may well be lower depending upon host device, OS and application. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for our iSSD product, technology measurement standards, performance, applications, features, markets, and customers which might be based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that would cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks which can cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: the market demand for our products, including the iSSD product may grow more slowly than our expectations or there could be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, our products is probably not available at the prices, or inside the geographies or capacities that we anticipate, our products won’t perform as expected and the opposite risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the ideas contained in this press release.
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