A new series of 16-Gbyte embedded NAND Flash memory devices, which are designed for mobile products like cell phones, music players, and digital video / camera, has been commercialized by Toshiba.
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. The new embedded memory offers the largest capacity to date in this product category.
Samples will be released in the second quarter of this year, which is the same time that 8-Gbyte flash-based iPhone makes its debut, and its mass production will begin in the forth quarter.
