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Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development
and manufacture of electronic products for a wide range of consumer, business,
and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated
net sales of 7.42 trillion yen (US$79.4 billion) for the year ended March 31,
2010. The company's shares are listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and New York
(NYSE: PC) stock exchanges. For more information on the company and the
Panasonic brand, visit the company's website at http://panasonic.net.
- editor's
comments:- February 2011 - as far as I know Panasonic doesn't make
computer standard form factor SSDs but it does make removable flash SSD cards
for use in camcorders.
Its
P2
(Professional Plug-In) cards enable production quality high definition
video to be captured on camcorders. Internally the P2 cards have Panasonic
designed SSD controllers
which manage the flash memory
chips in a RAID like
architecture to get the needed write performance and also
data integrity.
A special feature of this mobile camera environment is the need to save
battery power while also providing fast power up times.
Panasonic
markets a
2TB SSD
mobile storage unit which enables users to transfer data from their P2 cards
onto industry standard 3rd party SSDs from supported vendors.
I think
it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that if
SSD market price
conditions were favorable - it would be a small easy step for Panasonic to
extend its proprietary form factor flash SSD business - and move into other
standard SSD form factors.
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