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Intel will be releasing a new flash chip that is capable of storing much more data per square inch. This was the latest news from an article by the CIO Magazine Website. This chip will be called the StrataFlash Cellular Memory Flash.

… product used a 1.8-volt, multilevel cell (MLC) design to support 256-megabit or 512-megabit density on a single layer, or 1 gigabit in stacked dies. The new chip uses that same “M18″ architecture, allowing developers to upgrade their phone platforms without changing the software and hardware, said Allen Holmes, director of marketing for Intel’s NOR flash group.

It less power and less space making it ideal for mobile phones and other portable devices. So at 512-megabit on a single layer. So all it takes is 64 layers to make a 32-gigabit drive. Making this much smaller than most of the existing flash technologies. We just hope this won’t be too costly.

Will this technology finally power the new iPod? Good bye mechanical disks?

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