The rumors are true. Toshiba switching to solid state for movie delivery.

Originally Posted by Robertoy

Toshiba NAND flash 56nm > 43nm in 1Q09

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080924PD219.html

Toshiba/Samsung/Sandisk
http://www.highdefforum.com/701418-post1893.html

Roberto

Originally Posted by TechON

Toshiba to Release 43nm SLC NAND Flash Memory
Oct 28, 2008 15:59
Nikkei Electronics Asia


43nm SLC NAND Flash Memory

Toshiba Corp has launched a new line-up of 43nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash memory products available in densities ranging from 512 Mbits to 64Gb and in a total of 16 versions.

The new range includes three products, 16Gb, 32Gb and 64Gb, which integrate monolithic 16Gb chips fabricated with 43nm generation process technology, said to be the highest density chips available.

SLC chips can read and write large amounts of data at high speed, support a very large number of read and write times, and offer high-level reliability. Toshiba developed the SLC devices to meet diversifying applications, and its enhanced line-up offers support for mobile phones, flat panel TVs, OA equipment, and servers, all of which require high levels of read and write speeds and reliability.

In bringing a wider range of SLC Flash memories which are suitable for storing data at an advanced level into its line-up, the company aims to expand its line-up of high-value added products for diverse embedded applications, and will promote mass production through the application of advanced process technology. The devices will start to come to market in Q1 2009.

Originally Posted by Robertoy

Last year Toshiba anounced a 3D NAND flash technology, with enhanced cell density and data capacity.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32433/118/

Maybe Toshiba and Sandisk to put this 3D flash in the market in future... (in 3 ou 4 years...)
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...team-3d-memory

The partnership between Toshiba and Sandisk:
https://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/pr...orp_07_491.jsp

And Samsung considering SanDisk partnership...
http://www.techspot.com/news/31517-s...rtnership.html

And Apple forcing Samsung to chase SanDisk...
http://valleywag.com/5051366/why-app...-chase-sandisk

Roberto

Originally Posted by Reuters

Samsung, Toshiba sign cross licence deal on chips

SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the world's biggest memory chip maker, said on Monday it had signed a cross licence deal on semiconductors with Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T).

Samsung said in a filing with the Korea Exchange the deal licenses both companies' patented technologies related to chips, without elaborating.

Toshiba is the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips behind Samsung. (Reporting by Rhee So-eui, Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Originally Posted by Robertoy

[VLSI] Toshiba Announces 32Gb 3D-stacked Multi-level NAND Flash

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english...090619/171977/

Toshiba hopes for 3D flash chip within three years
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06...hiba_3d_flash/

In less time with Samsung partnership?...

Roberto

Originally Posted by TechON

Analysis Nikkei Electronics Asia -- September 2009

3D Cells Make Terabit NAND Flash Possible
Sept 17, 2009 00:00
Masahide Kimura

Two leading manufacturers of NAND Flash memory, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba, believe that a technique to achieve larger capacity will be needed by about 2013, to take the place of merely shrinking design rules. The most promising candidate is stacking memory cells in three dimensions, in what is called 3D cell technology. Technology development efforts are accelerating rapidly.

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Prediction: Toshiba announces a 64GB flash card - by CES 2009.

Originally Posted by Chris Gerhard

I predict Toshiba announces a Blu-ray player by CES 2009 and will have a display with a Blu-ray player as will many other major consumer electronics companies.

Chris

Originally Posted by PFC5

You must be clairvoyant!

I will take it one step further and say they will release it at least a BD player by Oct-Nov 2009.

Originally Posted by Sandisk

SANDISK SHIPS WORLD’S FIRST FLASH MEMORY CARDS WITH 64 GIGABIT X4 (4-BITS-PER-CELL) NAND FLASH TECHNOLOGY

* Revolutionary X4™ technology combines advanced proprietary controller algorithms with world's largest-capacity monolithic 64 Gigabit Flash chip

* Volume shipments of SDHC™ and Memory Stick PRO™ cards employing X4 technology began in September 2009



Milpitas, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, twice as many as the cells in conventional multi-level cell (MLC) NAND (2-bits-per-cell) memory chips.

Based on 43-nanometer (nm) process technology, the 64-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash chip is the highest-density single-die memory device in the world to enter production.

Originally Posted by bsn

SanDisk's 43nm X4 NAND flash chips give 25% capacity increase "for free"
10/14/2009 by: Theo Valich



From the looks of it, 2010 is looking very promising for storage devices that rely on NAND Flash devices [read: almost all of them] - after five years of development, SanDisk announced that the company begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on evolutionary X4 NAND flash chips. Unlike the current MLC flash chips [multi-level cell] that pack two or three bits in a single cell, X4 packs four bits in a single cell.

A die shot of a single 64Gbit X4 NAND flash chip. Picture Credit: SanDisk CorporationFirst shipped products are two 8GB and two 16GB flash cards - SDHC and Memory Stick Pro Duo, featuring increased writing and reading speed when compared to previous generation. But the progress doesn't stop here - SanDisk and Toshiba already demonstrated the 3-bit MLC cell manufactured in 32nm process and the next step will be to bring 3-bit and 4-bit MLC NAND Flash in even more denser configuration, courtesy of afore mentioned 32nm process.

What makes SanDisk's NAND Flash memory chips interesting is the fact that the company is really aggressive on the die size and packaging. Even though the chips are only available in SanDisk products [and rebadged low-volume OEM deals], SanDisk is quite bullish on their claims, such as alleged 33% die space advantage over competition that utilize 34nm process [when compared to their 32nm chips]. The X4 NAND chips are really interesting because Toshiba's 43nm process proved much more efficient than 56nm and almost as efficient as the 34nm process from competing sides [sub-10% disadvantage in die-size]. At least those are the claims.

By using simple math, we get a 25% increase in cell capacity "for free". Coupled with Toshiba's proven 43nm process, new chips consume less power and are capable of yielding much higher capacity per memory chip than previously possible. SanDisk is shipping 64Gigabit [8GigaBytes] NAND chips - when these get into Solid State Drives, we could see a 20-30% reduction in price for the same capacity over the competition. 8GB of data in a single chip could effectively double the SSD capacity - most of MLC-based SSDs currently rely on 32Gbit chips in configurations of 32 [128GB] or even 64 chips [256GB ones] in expensive double-stacked configuration. With X4 NAND flash, you can build a 256GB SSD for roughly 20% price premium over the current 128GB models, while 512GB SSD could go for a 30% price premium, instead of current "double the capacity - [almost] double the price".

But the news aren't over yet - X4 chips also bring several new features to NAND flash technology, such as ECC [Error Checking and Correction] and advanced digital signal processing technologies. Both technologies come from Tel Aviv University and are exclusively licensed to SanDisk.

Originally Posted by Fudzilla

SSD to catch up mechanical drives by 2012
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Monday, 05 October 2009 10:42



In both price and performance

The charismatic CEO of OCZ technology Ryan M. Petersen has told Fudzilla that he expects SSD to overtake mechanical drives in in terms of price, capacity and of course performance.

The manufacturing roadmaps for SSD storage devices should enable three to four bits per MCL cell in late 2011 or early 2012 and this should be the point when SSD should catch up mechanical HDD drives in storage and price.The performance is already on SSD side.

This is why Intel as well as OCZ are putting a lot of effort into this market as if this turns to be right, mechanical drives might become history in the next five to ten years.

Since SSDs are faster and have better shock resistant mechanisms, they are more energy efficient and offer superior performance. Once their cost matches mechanical drives, the whole storage industry will have to move to SSD.