Intel and Micron are promising zippier gadgets with a fast new variation on flash memory. The companies' IM Flash Technologies joint operation has come up with an 8-bit NAND memory chip that can read data at speeds up to 200 million bytes per second and write at 100 million bytes per second, several times faster than current chips.
Chips will start mass production late this year, and devices using them -- mostly high-end camera and video devices to start -- are already being designed.
