Santa Clara, California-based SunDisk Corp is claiming to have the industry’s first 8M-bit Flash EEPROM chip using underlying technology developed jointly by SunDisk and AT&T Co’s Bell Laboratories in Allentown, Pennsylvania: the chip, currently undergoing product qualification, uses a very small patented cell on an 0.8-micron process and is designed to be scaled to 16M-bits and 64M-bits; SunDisk will first use the chip in its recently announced SDI series of small form factor embedded IDE solid-state secondary storage devices that come in capacities of 2.5Mb to 40Mb; AT&T will use the chip in products to be announced at a future date.
