Toshiba today launched a new 32GB flash memory module designed for portable gadgets.

The module combines eight 4GB NAND flash chips built using the new smaller 43nm process technology in a single package. This doubles the storage capacity from 16GB to 32GB while keeping the size almost same. The new design also includes its own controller built in the module that will allow device makers to drop the new module in without changing the hardware.
Toshiba is the key supplier of flash memory to Apple. The iPhone maker uses their memory chips in present generation iPhone and iPod touch and this would allow Apple to design a 32GB iPhone as well as a 64GB iPod touch. It is rumored that Apple will add a 32GB iPhone to its lineup before Christmas. Toshiba will start sampling the new memory chip in September and will start mass production by end of fall. We will see products based on the new chip in fourth quarter of 2008.

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