Toshiba on Monday a new 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the right to the highest capacity in the industry. The component combines a dedicated controller and sixteen 32Gbit chips manufactured using the company’s 32nm technology. Chip Thinning and layering techniques to help the chip thickness to only 30 microns.
The new modules could be used to double the storage capacity of portable devices like iPods and smartphones. The iPhone, which uses a single module that could be a jump to 64GB capacity to see with the new components, while the iPod touch theoretically reach 128 GB with two modules.
The 64GB modules are expected to ship samples Sometime this month, with mass production in the first quarter of 2010.
Toshiba, which once vigorously defended the HD DVD high-definition format, Sony finally lost prevailing Blu-ray, will shortly publish Blu-ray player of its own, according to the Japanese paper Yomiuri. Toshiba should be its first Blu-ray player, probably in their home market in Japan, first of all by the year 2010 rolls around. A Blu-ray recorders will also be for Japan, where there are no further information about this device.
Since the end of HD DVD, the company had claimed that it is not a Blu-ray player and upconverting instead on that DVD players would bring to standard DVDs in near high-definition resolution. Most critics believe that the movement was a matter of pride and refuses to re-format of a competitor as soon as a strategic decision.
via engadget
