Samsung: 200 MB/s for a 256 GB SSD

Samsung might have shaken the SSD market with its last announcement. The company claims to have assembled a 256 GB SSD able to deliver unreachable reading and writing speed of respectively 200 MB/S and 160 MB/S.
Such a beast should be available by the end of the year, and will nevertheless be based on MLC memory despite this type of chips is slower than the SLC normally used in flash drive and current SSD. There is no further detail regarding the technology breakthrough completed by Samsung R&D team to achieve such transfer speed. One can imagine that Samsung uses a specific cache level, or a controller able to mimic a RAID-like system to split data over several chips. With such data rate, this drive available in 1.8 and 2.5" in SATA format could simply free notebooks of their usual bottleneck, aka the access and speed of their local storage unit. Even some desktop could benefit from such speed.
As we originally predicted it, the PATA Zif interface used for the SSD in the MacBook air by Apple is probably EOL, and will most likely be replaced by a SATA port.