Date: 09/11/2006

Intel ships in volumes it's 1Gb, monolithic NOR flash memory chips to mobile phone makers

In it's fight to retain the market share evading from the NAND flash, Intel has shipped production volumes of single chip NOR flash memory etched at 65nm and with a maximum capacity of 1Gb to leading cellphone makers. This Multi Level Cell (MLC) based flash chips are highly suitable for phones with 4mega pixel camera and mpeg4 video.

These 65nm NOR MLC chips memory can be read at 133MHz, and written at speeds of 1.0MB/sec; doubled compared to previous product. Operate down to 1.8 V and consume very less power in deep power down mode.

Sony Ericsson and Infineon have commented positively about this product.

Intel is collaborating with ST micro in developing cellphone memory architecture.