Samsung starts mass producing 16 Gigabit NAND chips

Enlighting. Looks like I was wrong.

Yup Leonard's right,

These 16Gb chips are 2GB (GigaBytes) in size. So i would imagine the max we will likely see is 32GB using these chips.

I can't see that happening soon, more likely 8 & 16GB

Erica said. "If I have my facts straight, the iPhone uses 4 Gigabit chips in its design."

That is correct, people. 4Gb = .5GB. IOW, the iPhone uses 8 or 16 of these 4Gb (.5GB) chips to equal it's 4GB or 8GB capacity, respectfully.

Actually tvz, nimro, & D:
Memory devices are spec'd in bits, not bytes.
Though I do doubt the iPhone has 16/32 chips of flash memory. It is possible, but would add alot of bloat. If you ever have to shop for the raw chips, not assembled into a simm/dimm then you will have to spec them out in words x bus width, as they are sold as 1g x 16 or similar (1 gigaword w/ 16 bit bus access). A single device can be referred to in several different spec values. Bytes are not always 8bits. Words are not always 16. This is why they are usually referred to by the total number of bit cells.

Yeaaaah... It's bandwidth that's usually expressed in gigabytes, not capacity.

shouldn't it read Gigabyte instead of Gigabit ???

I think you'll find that's GigaBYTE (GB), not GigaBIT (Gb). 1 GByte is 8 times bigger than 1 Gbit.

Where is the 64 GB hardrive?

http://thunkdifferent.com

Can anyone say 32GB flash Video iPod? The rumors were right...