SanDisk announces iNAND Ultra embedded flash memory


SanDisk has announced iNAND Ultra embedded flash memory products. This offers larger internal storage capacity for smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. This has 19nm circuit which is so small that about 3,000 of them could fit across the width of a human hair. This offers up to 64GB of storage capacity and comes at 11.5mm x 13mm in size and is 1mm thin.

The iNAND Ultra products are optimized for current and future generations of leading mobile operating systems such as Google Android and Windows Mobile. This would offer up to 20 MB/sec sequential write and up to 80MB/sec sequential read performance for faster file transfers.

The SanDisk iNAND family includes iNAND, iNAND Ultra and iNAND Extreme products and they are in talks with the major OEMs and chipset vendors to incorporate these products in upcoming devices.

These comes in 8GB to 64GB capacities and the samples are expected to be available to customers in the first quarter of 2012. Volume production is expected in the second quarter of 2012.


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