Today, when a device like the iPhone has a capacity of 32 GB, it loads often eight chips of NAND Flash memory of 4 GB each. One limitation to the increase in capacity comes from the space available within the device to store the chips. This is probably one of the reasons that the iPod Touch offers superior capabilities to those of the iPhone: since his bowels are less congested, it is easy to store more Many chip Flash memory.

In his way, Toshiba might solve the problem of handset manufacturers, since the Japanese announces the production of a memory chip, which alone has a capacity of 64 GB one size larger than the traditional chips, this new reference is actually an assembly of chips smaller capacity, combined with the controller they need to operate within a single package. Thus, to put 64GB of memory in a terminal, it is no longer necessary to provide a PCB on which we place 16 memory chips: they are already assembled together within a framework that takes much less space. So there is no miracle behind this ad, but rather an integration effort directed at the production, which can reach densities that are not able to obtain when working with manufacturers of the chips’ unit. These new chips “all in one” Toshiba expected to begin production in the first quarter of 2010. At that time, it is possible to see smartphones offer significant capacity mounted at 64 or 128 GB iPhone and iPod Touch could be part of the lot.