Mar
Intel forecast dips on NAND chips
Intel announced that their gross profit margin for the current quarter is dropping from 56% of sales down to 54%. It’s not a big dip but when you are talking billions, people will notice.
Standard NAND flash memory has been growing steadily in capacity at the same time as prices are dropping. Due to the performance of the memory, it won’t work great as a hard drive yet, but as people start to understand the limitations and prices drop more, it becomes more attractive due to its low power usage, low heat, and fast seek times. However, price and capacity are still a challenge as are reading of large files.
To be able to get a 32GB flash memory stick relatively cheap is pretty exciting. You can store 6000 5MB MP3s on that memory stick and for many people, that now represents well over their entire music library. The idea of the jukebox that you can fit into your pocket is starting to come true.
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