Toshiba Creates 128GB (64Gb NAND) Flash Chips
Mmm... chips.
Smartphones and other mobile devices these days rely on flash storage rather than tiny hard drives. Notably, devices without expandable storage options, such as ones from Apple like the iPhone and iPad, differentiate themselves with their flash capacities.
In order to make tablets and smartphones with more than 32GB or 64GB of flash, memory makers need to make the chips. Toshiba has stepped up to the plate and revealed that it has made a 128GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry.
The new 128GB embedded device integrates sixteen 64Gbit (equal to 8GB) NAND chips fabricated with Toshiba's 32nm process technology and a dedicated controller into a small package 17 x 22 x 1.4mm.
Samples will be available in September, and mass production will start in the fourth quarter (October to December) of 2010.
Power Supply Voltage 2.7V to 3.6V (memory core);
1.65V to 1.95V / 2.7V to 3.6V (interface)
Bus width x1, x4, x8
Write Speed
21MB per sec. (Sequential/Interleave Mode)
21MB per sec. (Sequential/No Interleave Mode)
Read Speed
46MB per sec. (Sequential Mode/Interleave Mode)
55MB per sec. (Sequential/No Interleave Mode)
Temperature range -25degrees to +85degees Celsius
Package 153Ball FBGA (+84 support balls)

(as skin is peeling off and lungs burning)
"Oh noez, my memory chips are failing!!!"
Nothing like paying $100 more for only 16GB more of memory...
Uh.. won't that explode? o.O
That's the ambient temperature of the air where the device is to operate. The fact that the highest recorded temperature in the world was 57.8 °C means you are not worried about operating temps in hot places. Working in the Antarctic, that's a differant matter...
Epic win for Toshiba, i'll give it 10 years and these chips will be rated in Tera, not Giga.
Last year the aircon failed in one of my server rooms. I measured air temperature in excess of 64C that day.
He meant under natural circumstances.
Products aren't made only for perfect conditions - they're made with regard to certain risks. Thus 85C could actually become a problem in some situations - like being left in the windscreen of a black car on a sunny day with a 40C ambient temperature.
Was it in excess by an additional 21 degrees?
Don't worry, be happy
(as skin is peeling off and lungs burning)
"Oh noez, my memory chips are failing!!!"
Anyway, that's a small detail. Go progress!
No caption that under a picture of a cat on fire and it'd be perfect.
kind of like installing duke nukem back in 98
Well, if I am reading this right
So assuming that they work in tandem and data is written between all 16 chips the same way RAID does, then can I assume the 21MB / 46MB can be times by 16 to 336MB / 736MB.
Obviously it doesn't scale up exactly so how much do I take off for overheads to get the same speeds as top end SSDs?