Industry News Briefs Summary

Toshiba announced at the 2008 Consumer Electronics the launch of a family of MLC SSDs for PC and consumer applications to be available by the second quarter. Capacities are 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. Form factors are 2.5 inch, 1.8 inch and modules. The new MLC based SSDs provide a better value proposition with their significantly lower costs compared to comparable SLC technology. Read and write speeds are 100MB/s and 40MB/s respectively.