SanDisk and Toshiba Introduce 16-gigabit, 3-Bit-Per-Cell NAND Flash Chip

February 7, 2008: SanDisk and Toshiba have announced the fruit of their research partnership with the world’s first commercial 16-gigabit, 3-Bit-Per-Cell NAND Flash Chip.

With the rise of flash memory being used in storage devices, it’s little wonder that there are immense quantities of research dollars being poured into the technology. The new 3-Bits-Per-Cell architecture will come with a write performance of 8 megabytes per/second.

SanDisk believe that the introduction of this new technology with write speeds compared to existing memory positions will meet the growing market demands for higher density flash memory.

“We consider x3 as a major commercial breakthrough for flash memory that will extend Moore’s Law in this and future generations of NAND flash storage.” Said Dr. Khandker N. Quader, senior vice president, SanDisk.

With mass production expected to start in late March to early April this year, the partnership between Toshiba and SanDisk seems to be paying off.

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