Spansion moves NOR flash density into NAND territory

摘要

Sunnyvale, Calif. — If nonvolatile-memory maker Spansion LLC has its way, current thinking about the roles of NOR and NAND flash could be upended, triggering a drastic shift in market share in its favor and even changing the way audio, video and image data are compressed for storage in mobile devices. The company, jointly owned by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., details its plans in a road map to be released today. It carries Spansion's NOR flash devices from the 110-nanometer, 512-Mbit devices already in production through the 45-nm process node and to densities of 8 Gbits per die, nearly overtaking the NAND flash road maps of the company's competitors. "We are currently producing 512-Mbit NOR devices," Spansion president and CEO Bertrand Cambou said. "We already have material in manufacturing for a 1-gigabit NOR device, and our near-term road map will carry us to 8 gigabits."