SanDisk’s 64GB iNAND embedded flash adds memory girth to handhelds

Isn’t it amazing how flash memory has grown over the years? Not too dissimilar from your ego, right? Just two years ago SanDisk was only offering 16GB modules in the high end of its iNAND embedded flash range, and today the same company presented a new MLC NAND chip with four times the capacity. The trick in this 64GB 32nm silicon gem is the same-old X3 flash technology (along with undisclosed, but evidently significant, “innovations in flash management”), which allows each cell to store three bits. Go on, OEMs — just shove one of these chips into our next phone and we’ll promise to leave you alone until next February. Wait, did we say “promise?” Try… we meant try.

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