14 DAY TRIAL // Intel Corporation announced that it started shipping its 65-nanometer NOR flash Multi-Level Cell (MLC) products, including the 65nm 1Gb chip for mobile phones.
The new products are based on Intel's StrataFlash Cellular Memory (M18) architecture and are compatible with Intel's 90nm-based flash chips, ensuring an easy migration path for cellular equipment manufacturers. The 1 GB MLC NOR chip is targeted at multimedia phones with megapixel cameras, video and high-speed data capabilities.
"The density of our 1Gb product provides nearly double the storage for multimedia files and enables ever-slimmer form factor phones, both key elements for our customers," said Darin Billerbeck, vice president and general manager, Intel Flash Products Group.
The new 65nm NOR MLC parts from Intel offer fast read speeds of up to 133 MHz, improved write speeds of up to 1.0MB/sec for faster response times and storage capabilities for 4 megapixel cameras and MPEG-4 video. The write speed improvement on the 65nm version is twice as fast as Intel's previous product. Battery life is also extended through low power consumption, 1.8-volt operation and a deep power-down mode.
The new product family is based on a mobile memory architecture collaboration between Intel and STMicroelectronics.