Toshiba starts using 32nm* process technology
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32nm* process technology
Toshiba has announced that it will start shipping NAND flash memory products fabricated with 32nm* process technology.
Samples of the *2 32nm generation, 32Gbit (Gb) single chips (4Gbytes (GB)) - offering what Toshiba claims is the largest density of any NAND flash chip*2 - are available from today.
The 16Gb-chip (2GB) products, the current mainstream density, will be available in July in Japan.
The 32Gb chips will first be applied to memory cards and USB memories and subsequently extended to embedded products.
Application of the advanced 32nm process technology will shrink chip size, allowing Toshiba to boost productivity and further enhance high-density, small-sized products.
As more mobile phones and mobile equipment provide support for video and movies, demand for larger density, small-sized memory products is growing.
Toshiba will start mass production of 32Gb NAND flash memories in July 2009 and will start to ship 16Gb products from the third quarter of FY2009 (October to December 2009).
The new chips will be produced at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations, in Mie prefecture, Japan.
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