Few days back Toshiba announced that they have begun using 43nm-manufacturing process for their next generation Flash memory chips. Not to be left behind and to one up Toshiba, Intel has announced that they will start manufacturing Flash chips based on even smaller 34nm technology. The new technology will allow Intel to double the storage capacity of the Flash memory chip to 32-gigabit, instantly doubling the current capacity of SSDs based on these Flash chips. Making it possible for Intel to manufacture 1.8” SSDs with capacities beyond 256GB. Intel’s director of marketing for NAND products said, “it will enable one to build a solid-state drive—say, for example, 80GB at a lower cost than we could on the previous generation, Intel will introduce and ramp the production of solid-state drives in second half of this year.”