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RE SNDK

Tosh, Sandisk ram up flash

2GB not a dream any more


By Charlie Demerjian: Tuesday 08 February 2005, 08:10

TOSHIBA AND SANDISK just announced the latest in high capacity flash chips at ISSCC. This one is an 8 Gbit chip built on a 70nm process by Toshiba. It will allow Sandisk to make 1GB memory sticks out of one chip, lowering costs quite a bit. There is also talk of stacking two of them to get a 16Gbit/2GB module.
For the technically inclined, the chips themselves are 145 square mm, built on a 70 nanometre process. Its immediate predecessors, a 4Gbit chip on a 90 nanometre process, took up only five per cent less space. The new chips store two bits per cell, and can write at six MBps and read at 60MBps, quite a large improvement over the previous generation.

Look for products with these chips to hit the market this summer, and for it to become the mainstay for both companies in a year or so. No word on the arrival of the 2GB modules. Or how much they will cost. µ