Kris Kumar
11-23-2005, 07:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,123628,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,123628,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Toshiba is planning to double the read/write speed of its NAND flash memory chips in the next year. NAND flash memory is used as the basic storage in devices such as digital cameras, music players and memory cards and faster chips could mean faster data transfers between computers and the devices. At present, Toshiba's flash chips can read and write data at 6MB per second but this will be doubled to 12MB per second sometime next year when the company begins producing chips on a new manufacturing line, said Hiroko Mochida, a Toshiba spokesperson."</i><br /><br />Good to see Toshiba planning to improve the data transfer speeds of its flash memory chips. We are using the flash memory cards on our Smartphones more than ever, for storing music files, maps, photos and other files. Recently I had installed Lexipedia, a Wikipedia based encyclopedia, which installs a <i>200+ MB</i> database on the storage card. I could have definitely used a faster storage card. ;-) In a <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=301947+21-Nov-2005+RTRS&srch=intel+micron+venture">related news story,</a> Intel is partnering with Micron to produce flash memory, which is expected to bring down the price of flash memory. :)