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    SanDisk, Toshiba to Ship High-Performance NAND Flash Chips

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    January 23, 2007
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      NAND flash memory provider SanDisk announced Jan. 23 that it expects to ship 56-nanometer multi-level cell flash memory chips this month with Toshiba from Fab 3, the 300mm wafer fabrication facility located at Toshibas Yokkaichi Operations near Nagoya, Japan.

      By spring 2007, SanDisk intends to ship the highest available density of single-chip MLC NAND flash memory, a company spokesperson said.

      After qualifying limited engineering samples, SanDisk plans to introduce the new 8-gigabit (1GB) single-chip, MLC NAND flash memory on 56nm process technology in the coming weeks, with commercial shipments slated for later in the first quarter.

      In Q2-07, the company expects to introduce monolithic 16-gigabit (2GB) NAND, which will be the highest density single-chip MLC NAND flash memory in the industry.

      “With the introduction of the 56nm and 16Gb process, SanDisk is rolling out its fifth generation of MLC NAND flash memory,” said Dr. Randhir Thakur, SanDisks executive vice president of technology and worldwide operations.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read more about SanDisks high-speed solid state drive.

      “Having 16GB memory on 56nm process technology allows us to realize twice the memory density per chip when compared with 8GB 70nm technology. This allows us to achieve the highest single-chip density of MLC NAND flash memory, thus enabling us to produce even more cost-effective MLC NAND flash memory chips.”

      With the technology and design advances in 56nm, SanDisk products also will offer approximately twice the improvement in write performance compared to the 70nm generation.

      SanDisk and Toshiba share output from the Yokkaichi facility and have co-developed many of the designs and technologies in MLC NAND flash. The new 56nm flash will be produced initially at Fab 3, the first 300mm wafer facility that SanDisk and Toshiba opened in 2005.

      By the end of this year, Fab 4, the new 300mm facility now under construction in connection with Flash Alliance, a venture between the two companies, will begin 56nm flash production.

      Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk is the inventor of flash storage cards and is the worlds largest supplier of flash data storage card products.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and small business storage hardware and software.

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      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor-in-Chief of eWEEK and responsible for all the publication's coverage. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he has distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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