World's first PC with NAND flash-based solid state disk

May 24, 2006 Samsung has announced the imminent release of one of the world’s highest performance laptops. In addition to being the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD), the PCs are completely silent, far more robust, have an instant-on for viewing multimedia content, reads 300 percent faster (53MB/s) and writes 150 percent quicker (28MB/s) and boots up to 50% faster on the SSD than on computers with traditional hard disk drives. This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application and could be the first step towards replacing hard disk drives. The Korea-only PCs also include (weep) embedded DMB (satellite) TV receivers for digital television (Korea recently launched a DMB service. Korea’s leap to technological leadership is no accident and Governments of the world should take note of the benefits of providing the most up-to-date telecommunications technologies to its population.

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