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Brief: Toshiba: 64 GB memory chips to begin mass production in Q1 10 [64 GB + 128 GB iPhone soon]

Categories: Apple, Rumors
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 4:32 AM

Toshiba makes a lot of things, but they’re best known in the mobile industry for their memory chips. They’ve just announced a 32 nanometer based, 30 micrometer thick, 64 GB chip that will begin mass production during the first quarter of 2010. You can expect them to be in the upcoming 64 GB and 128 GB iPhones that will surely be announced at some point during the next 6 months. No word as to how much they’ll cost, but with the amount of chips Apple orders to fill up all those music players and mobile device, you bet they’re getting a good deal. It’s also about time Apple killed the hard drive based iPod Classic.

[Via: Engadget]

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Matt

    The only reason I disagree with killing the iPod Classic lineup is that Apple can’t seem to get the sound quality in the iPod Touch/iPhone anywhere near as good as the hard disk based players. I’ve owned two iPod Touches now (1st & 2nd gen) and the iPhone 3G and music just doesn’t sound anywhere near as good, regardless of the encoding, as it does on my 80gb iPod Classic. I don’t even use my iPhone for music anymore, other than Pandora.

    If they can get that changed, then I’d agree, but the storage issue is secondary to sound quality for me.