Infopackets contributor Douglas Godbey writes:

Every once in a while, things pop up in the news - techie types of things - that makes the old crystal ball start glowing.

Recently, I came across an article in which Samsung announced the development of 16 GB (GigaByte) Flash chips. Flash chips are persistent memory devices that can take the place of hard drive components. The only limitation, up to now, is that the capacity has been 2 GB or less per chip.

The Apple nano iPod uses 16 of the 2 GB chips to store the songs and such instead of a mini hard drive like the older and bulkier iPods of the past. You can read the article here.

So, what does all this mean?

Plenty! Samsung went further to say that it is developing a laptop…

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