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Article: Cornice intros new high-capacity, low-cost tiny portable storage.(ENABLING TECHNOLOGY)
- Article from:
- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- June 7, 2003
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Cornice Inc, a start-up, is shipping the very first generation of what it calls the Cornice Storage Element (SE), which it claims has more storage in less space and at a lower price than anything that's been available. Packing 1.5GB into a half-cubic-inch size, the SE is supposedly what's needed to launch a new generation of powerful pocket-sized mobile consumer electronics products at affordable prices. Cornice is aiming at a market that's in between flash memory, which generally tops out at 128MB, and miniature hard disks that typically start at 10GB. Cornice points out that if flash came in 1.5GB, it would retail for between $400 and $500. Instead SE's $65 wholesale ...