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Toshiba today announced the development of a new NAND chip that can be integrated in upcoming audio players, tablet PCs and other devices that require high-density, non-volatile memory. Dubbed as SmartNAND, the package is based on 24nm process NAND flash chips and comes with a control chip supporting error correction code (ECC) that helps to reduce the burden of ECC from the host processor.

Toshiba says the 24nm lineup will replace its current 32nm chips and will result in better performance and faster transfer speeds.

SmartNAND will come in capacities ranging from 4GB to 64GB and are slated for mass production in second quarter of this year.