Samsung is shipping its 32Gbyte moviNAND embedded memory card, which is its first to use 32Gbit NAND devices produced on the manufacturer's 30nm process technology.
This card doubles the density of the previous generation of moviNAND based on 16Gbit 40nm NAND chips.
"The consumer's increasing needs for large amounts including video is driving the usage of large embedded memories," said Gerd Schauss, director of memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor Europe.
The card incorporates eight 32Gbit NAND chips, a multimedia card controller and firmware.
Although a proprietary design, Samsung said the cards "observe" the embedded MMC (eMMC) standard and use a high-speed interface that was jointly developed by JEDEC and MMCA (MultiMediaCard Association).
The most recent specification (eMMCv4.3) includes a power-on boot feature that shortens boot-up time and a sleep command to reduce power consumption.
According to research firm iSuppli, shipments of NAND flash used in 32Gbit and higher memory cards will account for 13% of global memory card shipments in 2009.
Also, Hynix Semiconductor and Numonyx are working with Phison Electronics to develop a new type of memory controller which will support the JEDEC eMMC 4.4 interface for future NAND flash devices.