SanDisk Includes High-Capacity, NAND Flash Memory Chips In Its Product Line.SanDisk Corp significantly broadened its product line by introducing high capacity flash memory chips targeted at cell phones, Internet music players, handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. , and other fast-growing consumer electronics products. The 256Mbit and 512Mbit NAND (Not AND) A Boolean logic operation that is true if any single input is false. Two-input NAND gates are often used as the sole logic element on gate array chips, because all Boolean operations can be created from NAND gates. See flash memory. devices are the first NAND flash See flash memory. memory products introduced by SanDisk. They will be manufactured for SanDisk through its FlashVision Joint Venture with Toshiba Corp. NAND is a widely used type of flash memory for high capacity data storage applications. NAND flash was invented by Toshiba Corp. and became available to SanDisk through a strategic corporate agreement signed this year. NAND flash memory has lower power dissipation, lower cost per bit, and higher capacity than the standard NOR flash commonly used for code store application. NAND flash has gained wide acceptance in embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. storage consumer electronics applications. For example, numerous MP3 music players come with a 256 or 5l2Mbit NAND chip embedded on the motherboard. In the future this type of flash storage is expected to penetrate major new applications for embedded storage, such as future generation cell phones, Internet appliances Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. , and set-top boxes. It is expected that all of these represent major new market opportunities for SanDisk in the coming years. The chips will be sold as TSOP (Thin Small Outline Package) A very thin, plastic, rectangular surface mount chip package with gull-wing pins on its two short sides. TSOPs are about a third as thick as SOJ chips. See gull-wing lead, SOP, SOJ and chip package. (thin small outline package) devices. TSOPs are widely used for packaging embedded flash memory in popular consumer elec tronics products. Ed Cuellar, SanDisk marketing director, said, "These NAND flash chips represent the most advanced and cost-effective flash component on the market today. The NAND devices have been widely adopted by systems designers. The combination of SanDisk's flash cards and these new embedded flash components gives our customers a strong competitive advantage. SanDisk will start production this month. Pricing, in 1000 unit quantities, is expected to be: 256Mbit, $58, and 5l2Mbit, $108. The 256Mbit chip translates into 32MB while the 512Mbit chip is equal to 64MB. Nick Schultz Nick Schultz (born August 25, 1982, in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Playing career Nick Schultz was selected in the second round, 33rd overall, in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. |
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