George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), says flash memory chips will replace notebooks’ hard disk drives within five years. Samsung has already demonstrated a notebook that uses a 32 GB flash drive. That company predicts 30% of all notebooks will run on flash memory by 2008.
According to Scalise, once the price of a good-sized flash drive falls below $50, the system will prevail over hard disks.