Market News: Sony offer flash memory disk for pc!

Sony Corp will offer its ultramobile personal computer with a flash memory disk for storing applications from July 3, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing the company. The move will make Sony the first Japanese company to sell PCs that replace the conventional hard-disk drive with a solid-state storage device, the report said. In early June, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a similar product. Sony's notebook features 16 gigabytes of flash memory, which allows programs to launch up to three to six times as fast as in computers with conventional hard drives, the Nihon Keizai said. The new Sony unit is priced from 209,800 yen, compared to 65,000 yen for similar hard-drive-equipped notebooks, the report said.