Toshiba gearing up sub-25nm flash memory chips

Toshiba has announced a new venture to develop a sub-25 nanometers flash memory chip line that could retain a lot more data than any SDHC card available now.

Memory cards are only getting smaller in size but larger in storage space. Basically, the smaller the nanometer measure, the more storage space there will be.

Already producing chips in circuitry widths of 32 and 43 nanometres, Toshiba is currently in second place behind Samsung when it comes to flash memory production.

But according to Reuters, a narrower circuitry width would allow semiconductor companies to "pack more storage capacity on a smaller piece of silicon," thus reducing production costs.

This venture itself won't be cheap, with Toshiba investing 15 billion yen ($159 million) in the project, with the hopes that the chips will make a debut in 2012.

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