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CMOS NAND Flash Gets Smaller

Posted February 21, 2008 8:06 AM

Based on 43 nm process technology, 16 Gb and 32 Gb single-chip flash memory chips will be available soon. The 16 Gb NAND flash memory chip has a total area 30% less than same density NAND-flash memories fabricated with 56 nm process technology. What applications would benefit most?

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Re: CMOS NAND Flash Gets Smaller

02/22/2008 5:18 AM

Why aren't processors being re-designed to take advantage of FLASH drives. You still need very fast RAM, and, huge capacity hard drives, but, why isn't the operating system and main apps. held on fairly fast FLASH drives.

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