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In the every changing face of storage, Samsung Electronics recently announced a breakthrough in flash memory for mass storage with a 4GB flash device in a 70-nanometer chip. The 70nm form factor will replace the 90nm chip that held 2GB, and it will allow for 50 percent higher performance, writing at 16MBps. According to some analysts, flash memory promises to hold some very exciting future prospects. Included in this is the possible replacement of hard drive storage with flash memory storage. The advantages are, increased reliability (no spinning hard drives to worry about), and reduced power consumption being the major ones. Other industry analysts however, are quick to pour water on this idea, saying that the cost differential between the technologies is far too great and as flash memory prices come down, disk drives will also come down maintaining this competitive edge. The battle between disk and flash can be seen in the MP3 market where the iPod and iPod mini use disk and the iPod shuffle uses flash. Samsung, is producing the flash in volume now and is ramping up from 4,000 wafers per month in June to 15,000 per month by the end of the year. Although Intel also produces flash memory, it is the market leader in what is called NOR flash, which is used in cellular phones because it stores both the code that drives a cellular phone and the data. Samsung is the market leader in NAND flash, which is used only for data and is typically found in digital cameras and MP3 players. It will be interesting to see if flash memory makes its way into computers, no doubt laptops to begin with. We've added a couple of new products; firstly the iStation Speakers allows you to play your iPod just like a mini HiFi. The price is reduced only for a week so you'll have to be quick to snap up this special. <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=iPODStation> We've also just introduced a 300GB drive for those truly serious about their storage requirements, and at $444 it represents great value for this much storage. Heres the link: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=EDGF308> Check out this great offer from Zytech and Microsoft. Get the student/teacher edition of Office and you get a standard wireless optical desktop - this alone is worth $80 - heres the link: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SOMacMate> For portability, we've put our 40GB FireStar on special at $249, heres the link: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=ED2F405> And, lastly, any purchase of $2000 or more (at normal prices) qualifies you for a free 256MB multifunction MP3 player with voice recording. Here's the link: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=FFPO256> Till next time. Kind regards, Greg Satti - Zytech PO Box 758 Bunbury WA 6230 Ph: (08) 9721 1125 Fx: (08) 9721 1126 Mb: 0423 558 636 The online data and technology store http://www.zytech.com.au/ If you have received this email in error or you no longer wish to receive communications from zytech, please send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line of UNSUBSCRIBE.
