Toshiba cooks up 128GB NAND flash for next-gen phones and PMPs
By Vlad Savov 
posted June 17th 2010 4:31AM
posted June 17th 2010 4:31AM
TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced the launch of a 128-gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry. The module is fully compliant with the latest e•MMC standard, and is designed for application in a wide range of digital consumer products, including smartphones, tablet PCs and digital video cameras. Samples will be available from September, and mass production will start in the fourth quarter (October to December) of 2010.
The new 128GB embedded device integrates sixteen 64Gbit (equal to 8GB) NAND chips fabricated with Toshiba's cutting-edge 32nm process technology and a dedicated controller into a small package only 17 x 22 x 1.4mm[3]. Toshiba is the first company to succeed in combining sixteen 64Gbit NAND chips, and applied advanced chip thinning and layering technologies to realize individual chips that are only 30 micrometers thick.
Toshiba now offers a comprehensive line-up of single-package embedded NAND Flash memories in densities from 2GB to 128GB. They integrate a controller to manage basic control functions for NAND applications, and are compatible with the JEDEC e•MMC Version 4.4 and its features. New samples of 64GB chips will also be available from August.
Demand continues to grow for large density chips that support high resolution video and deliver enhanced storage, particularly in the area of embedded memories with a controller function that minimizes development requirements and eases integration into system designs. Toshiba has established itself as an innovator in this key area, and is now reinforcing its leadership by being first to market with a 128GB generation module.
iphone 5 :D
@ThaBoyC
IPhone 4G
@ThaBoyC
Maybe not, in the next two years.
Probably will come out in the iPod Touch first.
@uckApple
16gb = $199
32gb = $299
64gb = $399
128gb = $499
one expansive phone :o
@peacecrafts
and that is with contract
@peacecrafts
iPod classic SSD version please! :D
@peacecrafts 128GB phone would be the best thing ever! Especially when people (like me) have massive music and media libraries that we are forced to pick and choose through.
That's a lot of porn!
@H264 and all family guy episodes :)
@Gutsy Gibbons
Family guy porn :-\ ???
@DefPoet lol +1
Zuine HD 2!!
@eddieexe ERR, Zune*
Damn it where's my edit button?!
@eddieexe
im hoping for the same. or any news on the new zune :|
@LMLYP zune is dead guys, its gonna take some time to get over it but Im sure you will. Didn't know Toshiba can cook nand.
@Gutsy Gibbons That's totally why they put Zune on the Kin, Winmo 7 phones, and Xbox, right?
@Gutsy Gibbons Yep, sure is, That's why Microsoft is expanding it to almost every platform they have? And allowing them to all interact with each other somehow?
Oh, and that's why they're putting out firmware update after firmware update to speed the thing up MORE? Cause twice as fast as the iPhone isn't fast enough?
Zune is not dead. I know it's gonna take all you Apple guys a while to understand that, but you will some day.
@GadgetTamer Can we assume that he's an ignorant person of another kind he doesn't have to be an Apple fan... I like Apple but I'm not denying the Zune as a fierce iPod competitor.
White iPhone 4 64GB for $499 comes true.
Edit:
Toshiba cooks up 128GB NAND flash for next-gen phones and PIMPs.
@Meekermoloko
Pimps like nand????
Pmp. Ohhhh
Holy next gen iPad batman!
@Calijoefornia
For the low price of $1500!
Bestphone! Me want!
@thisNthat
lol that, too, but I meant BEASTPHONE!
Isn't physical memory dead? Aren't we all going to put our data in a cloud? Or is it on cloud?
@LeeBongSmith
No
@LeeBongSmith
as long as iPod uses HDD/SSD cloud storage will never take off
@LeeBongSmith
Yeah, cloud data on phones would piss off the carriers with all that bandwidth usage. And home pc's and wifi labtops are big enough to have harddrives that don't use bandwidth. Cloud storage is only good for file sharing over multiple compuers over distances.
4g + 128. Gb + 2 ghz + moto: best phone ever
Wow lots of memory for phones and pimps! Great!
If they can make a 128GB PMP/Phone with one mem chip, where the hell are the cheap 256GB+ SSDs? Sure its a different grade of flash memory, but 128GB per chip in a SSD with dozens of those chips 0_o
one can never have enough storage.
meanwhile: waiting for 64gb cowon s9 or j3
this is the sort of storage the iphone 4 should've been packing.... with a choice of 32GB OR 64GB. (then 64GB and 128GB for the touches in sept.)
@sighclops I wonder if you could replace the memory inside one of these iPhone 4s with a 128GB one of these when they come out...
I say sometime next year we'll see Apple and Microsoft reveal iPods and Zunes with 128GB of internal storage. Definitely not this year. 64GB is huge and super expensive as it is.
so you could fit 2 of those in an ipod touch for 256gb of total memory... OH YEA!
ok now thats just pointless and i bet its gonna be way too expensive
Right in time for iPod touch 4th Generation :) .
And CDMA iPhone 4 :)
4th Generation iPod touch lineup
16 GB (3rd Gen) iPod touch - $199
32 GB iPod touch (4th Gen) - $249
64 GB iPod touch (4th Gen) - $349
128GB iPod touch (4th Gen) - $449
:)
Why 128 right away unless it doesn't cost more to make than the 64GB version? I am debating the iphone 4 solely on wanting 64GB. They could come out with a new one in 3 months and I would be pissed.
aw yeah! Zune HD 3..if there is even a 2......