Toshiba's 64GB NAND May Come to iPhone

[exfileme]

Toshiba's new NAND flash memory modules may end up in the iPhone and iPod Touch, offering tons of storage.

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[ben850]

micro is x 10^-6 correct? so 1 micro meter = .000001 meter?

 

[w4ffles]

Apple: Sweet, lets charge $600 for the next iPod Touch and $1000 for the iPhone.

 

[Guest]

ben850, yes, micrometer is 0.000001 meter. The wafers start at around 775um, so they are backgrinding way down to get to 30um.

I'm thinking there's something missing here with regards to future device capacity. Toshiba was a primary supplier for the 32GB Iphone with 8 32Gb chips per package on their 43nm technology. However, since a 43nm 32Gb flash is too big to fit into a standard TSOP package, Apple had to modify their board to allow Toshiba's single package to occupy the space of the traditional two TSOPs they've had in iphones.

My point is that at 32 nm , 32 Gb fits in a TSOP, so that change alone doubles the amount of memory an iphone can carry. Throw in 16 chips per package instead of 8, and it doubles again. Could be looking at 128GB iphones in that scenario. And with 64Gb chips coming out in 2010 or early 2011, could see 256GB iphones with two 16 chip TSOP packages.

 

[razor512]

knowing apple if they ever use that, they will greatly inflate the price.

cheaper solution

step one, buy a dell axim x51v for about $100
step two, buy 1 32GB cf card for $15
Step three, buy 1 32GB sd card for $18
Step four, but 1 extended battery for $5 2200mah

lots of storage, crap load of apps (most actually being useful), opera mobile (best browser for windows mobile)

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]Razor512[/nom]knowing apple if they ever use that, they will greatly inflate the price.cheaper solutionstep one, buy a dell axim x51v for about $100step two, buy 1 32GB cf card for $15Step three, buy 1 32GB sd card for $18Step four, but 1 extended battery for $5 2200mahlots of storage, crap load of apps (most actually being useful), opera mobile (best browser for windows mobile)[/citation]
Oh, is that ever tempting... I'll keep it in mind. =D

Nice to see them packing as much fudge... er, memory as possible. Hopefully they're also working on making it cheap as possible. Only 16GB in my PSPgo is dissapointing.