Sandisk has unveiled a new 32GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD), touted as a replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive.
The disks are initially aimed at enterprise customers but the company hopes that this will then spread to consumer laptops as prices get cheaper.
It said the declining cost of NAND flash memory has made SSD "a viable and economically attractive alternative to existing technologies in a wider variety of applications, including mobile PCs aimed at enterprise and consumer users."
Eli Harari, SanDisk CEO said that once his company began shipping the 32GB SSD for notebook PCs, "we expect to see its increasing adoption in the coming years as we continue to reduce the cost of flash memory."
