Toshiba Unveils 16-Gbyte Flash Memory

Wednesday April 18, 2007

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Hard drive-based music players, your days are numbered. Toshiba said today that it has commercialized a new series of 16-Gbyte embedded NAND Flash memory devices, all of which are designed for use in mobile consumer products like cell phones, music players, and video cameras.

The company says that samples will go out in the second quarter of this year--around the same time that 8-Gbyte flash-based iPhone makes its debut--and that mass production will begin in the forth quarter.

The new 16-Gbyte chips combine eight 2-Gbyte NAND elements and can store as many as 4,000 songs (at 4-Mbytes per song) and record up to 280 hours of data in 128Kbps bit rate. Oh, and Toshiba was kind enough to pop a controller chip on there too so that product manufacturers can minimize development costs and improve time to market. According to Toshiba, the new embedded memory offers the largest capacity to date in this product category. Furthermore, the company will be shipping samples of its 8-Gbyte flash chips later this month, with mass production to start in the third quarter.

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