Intel introduced a new, thumbnail-sized solid state storage drive that it says will serve as a key component for next-generation mobile, digital entertainment, and embedded applications in numerous portable electronic devices.

The Z-P140 PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) Solid State Drive, shown for the first time to a small group of journalists and analysts at the Campton Place hotel, is an ultrasmall, low-power, high-performance NAND flash-based storage drive with native 2GB and 4GB capacities.