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Author:  rrr12 [ April 30th, 2013, 13:51 ]
Post subject:  How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

My understanding is that the largest flash chips available are 256Mbit (32MByte). To build a 32GByte sd card would require 1000 32MByte flash chips. I must be missing somwthing.....no way there are 1000 flash chips in that little package ;-)

Can someone set me straight?

thanks!

Author:  lcoughey [ April 30th, 2013, 14:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

1 or 2, usually.

Author:  fzabkar [ April 30th, 2013, 15:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

Micron has 128Gbit and 256Gbit NAND Flash chips:
http://cse325.floorsoup.com/refdocs/hw_ ... _flash.pdf

Author:  rrr12 [ April 30th, 2013, 15:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

Thanks! That explains it.

Author:  Cleanroom [ May 1st, 2013, 8:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

most likely it is a Monolith chip

Author:  lcoughey [ May 1st, 2013, 9:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

Cleanroom wrote:
most likely it is a Monolith chip

Party pooper!

Author:  pcimage [ May 1st, 2013, 12:46 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

Cleanroom wrote:
most likely it is a Monolith chip


From the spec sheet ..

Package
– 52-pad LGA
– 48-pin TSOP
– 100-ball BGA
– 132-ball BGA

Author:  Cleanroom [ May 6th, 2013, 12:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

pcimage wrote:
Cleanroom wrote:
most likely it is a Monolith chip


From the spec sheet ..

Package
– 52-pad LGA
– 48-pin TSOP
– 100-ball BGA
– 132-ball BGA



Had to go and get technical to prove me wrong :)

Author:  pcimage [ May 6th, 2013, 14:38 ]
Post subject:  Re: How many flash chips are in a 32GByte SD card?

Cleanroom wrote:
pcimage wrote:
Cleanroom wrote:
most likely it is a Monolith chip


From the spec sheet ..

Package
– 52-pad LGA
– 48-pin TSOP
– 100-ball BGA
– 132-ball BGA



Had to go and get technical to prove me wrong :)



Ha ha :-)

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