In order to reduce the volume of their stocks and artificially maintained the price of flash memory, many manufacturers decided to strongly reduce or stop their manufacturing lines till the market demand is back and on the raising curve. In such depressed market, Apple's order for 100 millions GB of flash memory, mostly from Samsung, has created an non-artificial lack for this type of product. In addition, prices went 16% up from the beginning of April.
If officially, the final usage of such volume of NAND is unknown, one can easily hypothesized that it will be integrated in the future iPhone models that should be produce soon in order to be ready for an expected release date in June (at the WWDC?)
Corsair's (Almost) SSD Clone of Samsung 256 GB Unit
Corsair already offers a SSD model with 128 GB capacity. In fact, it is a rebranded Samsung unit (simply changed the label on the drive). So, we should not be surprised to see that the new models offering 256 GB of storage space, is also a rebranded Samsung model.
Hot Hardware performed a test on one sample, and noticed a difference with the sample from Samsung... The size of the cache memory. Instead of 128 MB on the Samsung model, the Corsair unit sports "only" 64 MB. So, in other words, this drive should be slower in multiple SSD tasks/requests. However, the end user might not be able to really see the difference between both models. Regarding performance figures, the Corsair SSD reaches respectively 200 MB/s and 166 MB/s in reading and writing modes. If this is particularly impressive when compared to results obtained from disc-based HDs, it is now becoming the standard level of high-end SSDs. Amazing how references and standards evolved in this field within the last 4 months...
Apple WWDC Sessions partially Unveiled
Apple released part of the agenda of the forthcoming WWDC sessions. Most of them will be dedicated to the iPhone OS 3.0 to provide answers to numerous developers rushing to get applications available on this platform. Some sessions are specifically dedicated to specific functions, such as the one dealing with the new copy/paste feature.
Snow Leopard is currently not officially presented even though 3 sessions are dedicated to Open CL. Of course things might evolve and change till June, and Apple should distribute a beta version of Snow Leopard. For addition information: http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions
New iPhone: Apple Creates a Sudden Lack of Flash Memory in a Depressed Market
In order to reduce the volume of their stocks and artificially maintained the price of flash memory, many manufacturers decided to strongly reduce or stop their manufacturing lines till the market demand is back and on the raising curve. In such depressed market, Apple's order for 100 millions GB of flash memory, mostly from Samsung, has created an non-artificial lack for this type of product. In addition, prices went 16% up from the beginning of April.
If officially, the final usage of such volume of NAND is unknown, one can easily hypothesized that it will be integrated in the future iPhone models that should be produce soon in order to be ready for an expected release date in June (at the WWDC?)
Corsair's (Almost) SSD Clone of Samsung 256 GB Unit
Corsair already offers a SSD model with 128 GB capacity. In fact, it is a rebranded Samsung unit (simply changed the label on the drive). So, we should not be surprised to see that the new models offering 256 GB of storage space, is also a rebranded Samsung model.
Hot Hardware performed a test on one sample, and noticed a difference with the sample from Samsung... The size of the cache memory. Instead of 128 MB on the Samsung model, the Corsair unit sports "only" 64 MB. So, in other words, this drive should be slower in multiple SSD tasks/requests. However, the end user might not be able to really see the difference between both models. Regarding performance figures, the Corsair SSD reaches respectively 200 MB/s and 166 MB/s in reading and writing modes. If this is particularly impressive when compared to results obtained from disc-based HDs, it is now becoming the standard level of high-end SSDs. Amazing how references and standards evolved in this field within the last 4 months...
Apple WWDC Sessions partially Unveiled
Apple released part of the agenda of the forthcoming WWDC sessions. Most of them will be dedicated to the iPhone OS 3.0 to provide answers to numerous developers rushing to get applications available on this platform. Some sessions are specifically dedicated to specific functions, such as the one dealing with the new copy/paste feature.
Snow Leopard is currently not officially presented even though 3 sessions are dedicated to Open CL. Of course things might evolve and change till June, and Apple should distribute a beta version of Snow Leopard. For addition information: http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions
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