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 has been designed with GQ magazine for notebooks auction of four famous men. The “artists” include Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, actor and writer, Rainn Wilson, rock musician Joe Perry and the actor and producer, Omar Epps, each shaping the foreign and interior of the four different Toshiba Satellite notebooks.
Ward’s design incorporates a rendition of him as a football player on the outside cover of the 18.4-inch multimedia notebook Satellite P505. Rain Wilson chose illustrator Mike Mitchell to the appearance of the 14-inch Toshiba Satellite M505-design. Joe Perry chose a classic black and white picture of the exterior of the 18.4-inch Qosmio X505, while Omar Epps shows from Brooklyn Bridge to the 16-inch A505 paying homage to his hometown.
The auction starts on 27 November. Proceeds from the sale of limited edition notebooks go to selected charity any designer, including the Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation, MONA Foundation, Project Aware and the Calvary AME Church.
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.
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It is certainly a powerful animal, in 46 and 55-inch screen sizes and with Toshiba’s Deep Lagoon design that the screen is flush with the frame, an end to every bit as eye-catching as the images it pumps out.
And the pictures really something to write home. The SV-Series is the first with an RGB LED backlight, the promotion of space and increasing the contrast ratio to a mind-boggling for some seriously 2000000:1 vivid images on the screen. There are also 10-bit processing offers a range of over one billion colors, Active Vision for a smooth image flow, Resolution + technology for near-HD upscaling of standard-definition sources, and the inclusion of Toshiba MetaBrain engine, optimizing the picture settings, taking into account the room and the contents on the screen.
Want more? Well, how about DLNA technology for wireless networking from your PC, Dolby Volume (for a consistent, high audio quality), 4x HDMI slots, InstaPort technology for a faster response HDMI, PC input, USB and ads for your snaps, there’s even a card reader. Eco-friendly, with an energy-saving ECO-panel and the option to switch off, rather than in the standby mode.
