NAND Flash memory is everywhere nowadays, from your SSD drive to your mobile phone, and Elpida and Spansion just announced they have managed to create a new type of faster flash chips that should go into mass production in the first quarter of 2011.

This breakthrough was achieved thanks to Spansion's MirrorBit charge-trapping technology that enabled Elpida to produce the industry's first charge-trapping 1.8 V, 4-gigabit SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND flash memory that offers superior performance compared to standard NAND flash technologies in use today.

"Elpida has obtained good chips from its first trial lot of charge trap NAND flash memory.

This result demonstrates the high level of technical expertise of both companies.

Our preparations to manufacture our NAND flash memory as soon as possible are well underway, which should enable us to deliver it to customers looking forward to it soon," said Yukio Sakamoto, president and chief executive officer of Elpida.

But thrilling as it may sound (for all of you high-tech gibberish fans out there) the best part about this new technology is that Elpida will start mass production during the first quarter of 2011 as the company plans to combine this with their Mobile RAM products to provide solutions for the mobile market, so you may see this really soon in a smartphone near you.

Both companies are also developing 3.0 V products and plan to develop 1Gb, 2Gb, and 4Gb products as well as 2Gb and 1Gb density 1.8V products.

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