Just few days back Intel showed the first 20nm NAND Flash chip and today Toshiba literally one upped Intel by showing 19 nanometer (nm) NAND Flash chip. The two-bit-per-cell chip offers 8GB storage and is the smallest NAND chip. The smaller size of the chip allows Toshiba to pack up to 16 chips in a stamp size package for total 128GB storage.

Toshiba says not only the new chips are smaller and more power efficient, but they are also slightly faster as the chips use Toggle DDR 2.0 memory support that helps shuttle data. Toshiba also plans to make chips with three-bit-per-cell using 19nm processor technology, which should further increase storage capacity without increasing size or power requirements.

Toshiba has started sampling the new 19nm NAND Flash chip and plans to start large-scale production in summer of this year. Devices based on the new chip should come to the market in second half of 2011.
[Via Electronista]