Monday, 30 April 2007

SanDisk, Qimonda building MCP-based storage for mobile handsets

SanDisk Corporation and Qimonda AG have announced plans to jointly create and manufacture new multichip (MCP) technology for mobile handsets. The new MCP technology will include SanDisk's NAND flash memory and controllers with Qimonda's mobile DRAM technology.

Engineering samples are slated to be ready for beta testing during the second half of the year, and mass production is slated to begin by the end of 2007, said officials of Milpitas, California-based SanDisk.

The increasing adoption of data-intensive mobile applications is sparking demand for higher capacity and integrated memory subsystems, such as MCPs, to carry the load on mobile handset devices and mobile phones, according to El Segundo, California-based electronics research firm iSuppli Corporation.

In fact, ISuppli says that revenue projections for MCP in the mobile handset arena will total USD 9 billion dollars by 2011. The research firm states that NAND and mobile DRAM combinations will comprise most of the memory shipped in MCPs by that time.

The new MCPs will be delivered to mobile handset manufacturers through the existing sales channels of both SanDisk and Qimonda.

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