SanDisk, Toshiba hype up X3 and X4 flash tech
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Feb 11th 2009 12:36AM
posted Feb 11th 2009 12:36AM
We've been following the perambulations of SanDisk and Toshiba's joint efforts for quite some time now -- from their work with "3D" memory technology to their renegotiation after the Samsung buyout debacle -- and all that love resulted in two announcements today: first, the X4 tech that SanDisk acquired when it purchased Msystems in 2006 will be used, alongside the companies' 43nm manufacturing process, to develop 64GB Compact Flash cards as early as the first half of this year. Second, it looks like 32nm X3 MLC NAND is a go, meaning we should see some seriously jacked SDHC and microSD cards in the future. Yes, but will they ever learn to make this exciting?[Via Electronista]
Read - X4 flash
Read - X3 flash
So it'll take forever to download the entire card :(
SanDisk, Toshiba!
:o
"meaning we should see some seriously jacked SDHC and microSD cards in the future."
Jacked in size and price initially, unfortunately.
Looking forward to oh, lets say 128Gb microSDHC card for various devices (looks over at the G1)
These developments would also apply to built-in memory as well?
i'd take unlimited rewrites (without degradation) over storage any day of the week, but I suppose this'll have to do for now :p
Any information on write/erase endurance? Also, they said that X3 will be used for SSDs. I'm really curious about why X4 wouldn't be able to be used for SSD.
Engadget the only way you would get "excited" about this is if the guy presenting wore a black turtle neck and it were encased in some form of aluminum.
Nibble memory... suddenly I'm ravenous.
So this is like super MLC (MLCx3 MLCx4)? Does this also mean they will be significantly slower than existing MLC (as MLC is slower than SLC)?