Date: 06/08/2009

Toshiba is shipping 43nm NAND flash in volumes to laptop OEMs

Toshiba is shipping its 43nm NAND flash SSDs in volumes to 5 major laptop OEMs
These SSDs are now shipped only to OEMs only in capacities of 64GB1, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB, in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures, targeted for use in laptops, gaming and home entertainment systems.

"The customer qualifications we've received attest to the enhanced performance of our second generation drives in improving the overall computing experience through reduction in wait times and faster boot and application loading," said Scott Nelson, vice president, memory, for TAEC. "Our SSD read and write speeds are among the fastest in the industry, based on our benchmarking, including H2benchw scores4."

"Solid state drives offer not only significant performance and power advantages over hard disk drives, but compelling lower total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the notebook," said Gregory Wong, president, Forward Insights. "Savings in total cost of ownership are particularly relevant to OEMs and business users in the current economic environment."