Memory manufacturer Kingston has also a wide range of solid-state devices in their range, including collaboration with semiconductor manufacturer Intel in which Kingston sell Intel SSD drives under its own brand. During an event today, we learned more about the company's future plans and a topic that was raised was the future form factors. Today, 2.5-inch standard, the most frequently relied upon to match the laptops and the like. But as our units are shrinking also follows the storage technology.

Kingston announced that next year will present more solid-state devices in terms of storage volume, up to 512GB, but will also introduce a new smaller form factor. Kingston says that they plan SSD drives in 1.8 "standard which, among other things, would make them attractive options for portable media players, or for that matter, let alone laptops.

Exactly which technologies will be used is still not yet confirmed, but Kingston has now products with technology from three different manufacturers in its range. In addition to Intel so also Samsung and Toshiba. Where both Toshiba and Intel already has 1.8 "solutions in their catalog.