Samsung has certainly been an “interesting”, to say the least, company to follow. First they completely ridiculed Sony (and others) with their 10 Megapixel phone in CeBIT and now they’re leading the start for HDD drives for portable devices.
This drive reads and writes data in speeds up to 1.5 times faster, doesn’t generate heat and only consumes 5% of the energy that a normal laptop drive does. Besides, it’s a flash drive, which means that the drive is “virtually” immortal and can handle drops, vibrations and whatever else you throw at it (well, ok, maybe not *everything*).
If memory doesn’t fail me, Apple has a contract with Samsung for flash memories, so will we be seeing a 32gb iPod with Video soon?
Given that current 16 GB Flash SSD drives sell for $3,000 a pop, I don’t think this is bound for an iPod this year. It *is* the future, but the spinning hard drive isn’t due for retirement just yet.
Oh, yeah, iPod for just $2,999 here we go.
Hold on a second guys, the value you’re mentioning is for the consumer market. That number is nothing compared to the price the drives will cost if bought in mass.
Apple has enough money to buy them in the millions of units so the price would be much much cheaper than $3k each. It would probably be too expensive for an iPod at the current prices, but not that more expensive, probably around $1000/$1500.
Yeh, plus that’s only now, six months, the iPods fitted with these pops will be much closer to 500 dollars.
Samsung..
They make nice cell phones, they dominates
memory markets, manufactures all kinds of high
-end consumer products(plasma, etc.)
and they’ve achieved all these within 15 years
of so.
It is the company to watch closer as the writer of this article metioned.
What’s more make Samsung powerfull is their
close relationship with South Korean goverment. When a company works closely with their goverment, rate of the company’s growth is pretty fast.
Not very well known, but they do constructions
all over the world as well.
(All that crazy scale construction in Dubai,
lot of ‘em doen by Samsung construction.)
I heard, they even make cars locally.