Samsung Announces Improving Flash Memory Capacity

A 32 GB flash iPod may be in our future. Samsung has announced that they've
developed a 16 Gb (that's giga-BIT, not -BYTE) flash memory chip. These chips, when
assembled into a flash memory card for use in, for instance, USB keys, mp3 players, or
digital cameras, would constitute a 32 GB (that's -BYTE) flash memory card.

With the positive buzz surrounding the iPod Nano, which at present has a 2- and a 4-
GB version, I forsee a future with larger and larger mp3 devices, sans hard disk technology.
Even more interesting is the proposition that these drives, if made at a large enough
scala that their price points would be affordable, could also go into portable computing
devices and mobile phones, which seem to be held back in part by the power and size requirements
of mini hard disks, and which instead remain in the low-capacity flash realm.