Micron Introduces RealSSD(TM) Family of Solid State Drives

BOISE, Idaho & SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--Charting new directions and opportunities for NAND-based storage,Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE:MU), today entered the growing solidstate drive (SSD) market by announcing its RealSSD family of products.Offered in a range of form factors and densities, Micron's solid statedrives are designed for computing, enterprise server and networkingapplications. Moving the NAND-based storage architecture forward, the first ofMicron's solid state drives vary in density from 1 gigabyte (GB) to 64GBs. Aside from the obvious benefits of SSDs over hard disk drives

(HDDs) - lower power, faster boot-up time, increased reliability,improved performance and reduced noise - the products that Micron isannouncing today usher in a new set of application-specific featuresand capabilities. The devices in this new family include:

-- RealSSD Solid State Drives - Micron's 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch -- RealSSD Solid State Drives - Micron's 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch

RealSSD solid state drives for notebook and desktop computing

applications will be offered in 32-gigabyte (GB) and

64-gigabyte densities. Micron is now sampling both devices

with mass production expected in the first quarter of 2008.

Micron's RealSSD solid state drives feature:-0-*T

-- A native-SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) II

interface, allowing for improved performance. The products

use a single-chip controller specifically targeted at the

SSD application, and do not require a SATA bridge chip like

most current solutions. The controller is optimized for

four channel control of the NAND and supports advanced SATA

features such as native command queuing allowing the drive

to reorganize read and write commands. It also features a