8Gb NOR flash coming from Spansion at 45nm

Dawn Hopper, Spansion's director of strategic marketing, said the company at first will market the device in the gaming, industrial automotive and healthcare markets with eye toward improving the video experience for users.

"The one thing (those applications) have in common is video.. and pushing video to the end user," Hopper said. "The end user is then selecting some video interactivity via the device. We're striving to make that faster with NOR's fast read time."

Hopper said over the coming months, Spansion will fill out the GL-T's family by driving into lower densities--all the way down to 256Mb. She declined to say what the next density release would be.

Features:

• Read performance of the Spansion GL-T at 8Gb is 95 MegaBytes per second (MB/s) and program performance is 1.8 MB/s.
• Manufactured on advanced 300 mm wafers.

For more information, please visit Spansion's NOR Flash memory page.

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