Intel and Micron have come up with a 128Gb (gigabit) NAND flash memory chip. These tiny, tiny chips--built using a 20 nanometer process--fit together onto a cellphone-ready flash chip to provide up to 128GB of storage on a device the size of your pinkie-nail. That's almost 13 times the capacity of my first Apple iBook.
Currently churning through the Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) production lines are 64Gb chips using the same 20nm tech, but the 128Gb versions won't start showing up in actual devices until 2012.
As somebody who has somehow managed to max out the storage space on his 64GB iPad, I can always appreciate more space. And for those people replacing their regular laptops with tablets, and therefore needing space for all their photos, videos and music and not just a subset, more storage is essential.
World's First 128Gb NAND Device [Intel]
