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To: KeithDust2000 who wrote (4122)	9/16/2008 8:55:07 AM
From: PChips	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4590

Quadbit can only handle ten programming cycles, which is fine for delivering content such as music, but obviously unsuitable for solid state drives (SSDs) and flash cards. I think the info is about right. so how many r/w cycles would 6 bits/cell and 8 bits/cell have? 4 and 2 respectively? if this is best what CTF can do, what good is it to go where floating gate can't go? there has to be something better than this to be of much practical value. if one wants to use this for content delivery, why not go with OTP technology? what kind of die sizes are they getting for quadbits anyways? it is hard to imagine things can get any easier or better at lower nodes! pchips electronicsweekly.com Spansion moves to eight bit-per-cell flash by David Manners Wednesday 3 September 2008 Spansion, with its technology development partner Saifun of Israel, is developing six bit-per-cell and eight bit-per-cell flash memory. This will be utilised, alongside its already commercialised four bit-per-cell technology, which it calls Quadbit, to produce very small die size memories to provide an inexpensive medium for content delivery. “We’re moving to six bit-per-cell and eight bit-per-cell," Bertrand Cambou, CEO of Spansion, told EW, “we tell Saifun: ‘Don’t worry about increasing the number of cycles but increase the packing density’.” The limitation of multiple bits-per-cell technology is that it has a severely reduced number of programming/erase cycles. Quadbit can only handle ten programming cycles, which is fine for delivering content such as music, but obviously unsuitable for solid state drives (SSDs) and flash cards. Spansion develops its Quadbit densities to precisely fit particular applications, and is making its chips in densities of between 256Mbit and 2Gbit. “Content delivery is all about very low-cost solutions which means very small die sizes,” said John Nation, director of corporate marketing at Spansion. Quadbit is currently being made by Spansion on 65nm processes, but Quadbit chips will be moved onto a 45nm process next year.