SanDisk partnered with Toshiba produced some interesting technical stats with this new flash chip capable of 128-gigabit memory storage. To consumers that is approximately the same memory storage if one combined, say, a couple of average laptop HDDs or a very high end laptop. Mobile phones on the other hand currently are not using a memory size of 128-Gb.
Apparently in the production process stage SanDisk/Toshiba have, according to reports, managed to shrink memory cells from 20-nanometers to 19-nanometers but at the same time increase the capacity of cells from 2-bits to 3-bits. There will be those in investment banking, investors and/or stock markets etc who may wish to quantify the value of this development what I term is a "lower cost-per-unit, highly aggregated optimisation memory storage development, precisioned with ultra-fine integration".
Developments like this suggest to me, at any rate, that we are not far off seeing migration of the entire user content etc to (U)SIM as being entirely feasible, which tends to add some weight to that which I mentioned here in a previous blog post:
"Issues such as PIM and confidentially are transferrable commodities and, let's face it, can be aggregated in mini smart cards. Research tends to supports this. Migration of text, other data, images, audio etc etc do not present that much of a problem. Indeed, offloading user content is more probably a boon for handset manufacturers than a detriment, where the focus on design enables greater emphasis on scaling improved RF chipsets to cope with the changing radio environment, enhance power (battery) usage and skew the user interface for adaption to users exposure to touch and enriched multimedia are just three areas of many that are improved by offloading resource greedy PIM, confidentiality and user content to mini smart cards."
http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2012/01/changing-memory-storage-and-world.html
The original article I read about this development can be found in the Wall Street Journal blog:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/22/sandisk-says-latest-chip-leads-data-packing-pack/?mod=WSJBlog
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