Toshiba samples 4 GByte NAND flash memory devices

Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(08/12/08, 8:15 AM GMT)

Irvine, Ca. – Offering the promise of mobile devices, and other consumer electronics devices with as much mass storage as many low end desktops and laptops, Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC has started sampling  32GB (4 GByte) embedded NAND flash memory devices.

Fully compliant with the eMMC and eSD standards, the solid state mass storage devices are designed for application in digital consumer products, including mobile phones, video cameras, HDTV, personal navigation devices, POS terminals, printers, and set-top boxes.

The 32GB embedded devices combine eight 32Gbit (= 4GB) NAND chips fabricated with Toshiba's 43nm process technology, as well as an on-chip dedicated controller.

The company will begin sampling the new flash devices next month to consumer electronics device makers, with mass production to begin within the following three months.

This means that consumer devices and memory cards with the additional storage capability fully compliance with the JEDEC/MMCA Ver. 4.3 and SDA Ver. 2.0 high-speed memory standards for memory cards will begin to appear by early next year.

To learn more, go to www.toshiba.com/taec.

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