Toshiba unveils next-generation chip
AFP, Tokyo
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said Tuesday it has helped develop a next-generation memory chip with uses from home appliances to mobile telephones, two weeks after its South Korean rival Samsung started mass production of similar-speed chips. The NAND flash memory chip, developed with California-based SanDisk Corp., can write at six megabytes per second and read at 60 megabytes per second, 40 percent faster than the previous generation, Toshiba Corp. said. The eight-gigabit chip has potential applications ranging from running digital appliances to powering third-generation mobile telephones. Toshiba said it found a way to store two bits of data in each memory cell, meaning the chip is less than five percent larger than predecessors. "Although eight-gigabit memory size products are also being released by our rivals, our new product has strength in the improved write/read speed," said Junichi Nagaki, spokesman for Toshiba.
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