Samsung and Sun develop tough flash memory - Sturdy enough for use in servers

By John Daly @ Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:59 AM

Section - PCs/Chips

South Korean electronics behemoth Samsung and Yank server outfit Sun Microsystems have announced  that their boffins have put their heads together and conjured up very new and really, really tough flash memory which can be used in servers.

Samsung boasts that its newly-developed single level cell NAND flash memory chip can have a virtual Lord Flashheart written and erased multitudinous times without surrendering, failing or going AWOL. Apparently, the new server 8GB flash chip can take five times the punishment of regular flash memory, which is why it can be used in servers without causing headaches.

The company could not refrain from adding that the new-fangled flash memory will also save a lot of power, as it is one hundred times as energy-efficient as regular hard disk drives in regards to data transfers per watt. Samsung suggested the new flash chip would be wonderful for 'use in video streaming, high-transaction data processing, search engine operations and other high-speed server functions.' X