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News Release from: M-Systems | Subject: DiskOnChip H-series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 March 2005
Flash disk works hand in hand with Palm
M-Systems is working with PalmSource to provide Palm OS support for its 2Gbyte MLC NAND-based DiskOnChip H-series storage solution.
M-Systems is working with PalmSource to provide Palm OS support for its 2Gbyte MLC NAND-based DiskOnChip H-series storage solution, setting a new capacity benchmark for the embedded Flash drive category M-Systems' H-Series Flash disk products, slated this year to range in size up to 2Gbyte, are multilevel cell (MLC) NAND-based storage solutions designed specifically for music and video handsets
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a partner in the Palm OS Ready (POSR) programme, M-Systems offers Palm OS licensees Flash-based memory storage solutions designed to speed time to market and lower device costs of Palm powered smart mobile devices.
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"PalmSource continues to work with M-Systems because of its ability to deliver cost-effective storage technologies, such as DiskOnChip, along with a reliable and mature Flash file system", said Charlie Tritschler, Vice President of Product Marketing for PalmSource.
"We believe M-Systems' latest Flash disk products will provide Palm OS licensees with an excellent storage solution for the development of next-generation Palm Powered phones that deliver a superior multimedia user experience".
M-Systems plans to offer TrueFFS software support for DiskOnChip H-series products for existing and future release of the Palm operating system.
TrueFFS, M-Systems' patented Flash management software, provides the operating system (OS) with full block device (hard drive) functionality so that the DiskOnChip Flash disk appears to the OS and file system as a standard disk drive.
At the same time, it transparently provides full Flash media management.
"PalmSource's plans to integrate support for our newest, high capacity products validates DiskOnChip's maturity and cost advantages over alternatives and provides users of Palm Powered smart mobile devices with a fast track to cost-effective multiple-gigabyte capacities, which are necessary in multimedia devices today", said David Tolub, General Manager of M-Systems' Mobile Division.
Combining 70 or 90nm MLC NAND with other advanced technologies, DiskOnChip H-series products provide abundant, reliable, high-performance storage capacity to enable mobile entertainment at an unmatched cost structure.
Currently, six out of seven tier-one handset manufacturers have integrated a DiskOnChip Flash disk from M-Systems within their products.
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