Well, Intel late Friday revealed the world’s smallest SSD chips ever released, and even if they went crazy with the dimensions, they certainly didn’t left the capacity behind. The new Intel Z-p140 PATA SSD chips come in 2GB capacity for now and the 4GB model will be available by the middle of 2008. In the future, the manufacturer will also launch a 16GB SSDs. What can we say about the weight of this kind of SSDs ? It weights just 0.02 ounces, as much as a paper clip and it’s no larger than a penny. Another interesting thing regarding this one, is that is still faster than most any flash-based memory cards and it can read with 40MB per second while writing at 30MB per second.
According to Intel, the combination with a standard Parallel ATA connection gives the Z-P140 the possibility to serve as an extremly small hard drive for virtually any operating system without the need of special controllers. We think that Intel is going to show off their chips at CES in January but we can’t be sure when will they hit the market.
