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| NEC Electronics Selects SanDisk iNAND Embedded Flash Drive SanDisk announces that NEC Electronics has selected the SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drive as the solid-state mobile storage solution for a new music phone platform that is based on its latest music playback chip, the AP131 audio processor. This marriage of advanced technologies, said the two companies, could give music lovers greatly increased playback times by lowering power consumption up to 85 percent. The AP131 audio processor is a very small (6mm x 6mm) music playback chip that allows mobile phones to play and share multiple formats of music files, including SD audio. Compared to conventional mobile phones relying on the host CPU for music playback, the AP131 chip from NEC lowers power consumption during music playback by as much as 85 percent, delivering up to 60 hours of continuous use from a standard 750mAh mobile battery. The AP131 chip with SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drive will be offered to handset manufacturers for inclusion in future mobile phones. Based on the industry-standard SD interface, iNAND is a high-capacity NAND flash storage device. iNAND facilitates lower integration efforts and seamless access to the most cost-effective high-capacity multi-level cell NAND flash technology available. SanDisk iNAND is designed to support mobile TV, multimedia downloading and other storage-hungry applications on portable systems such as mobile handsets, digital audio/MP3 players, gaming applications, personal media players, PDAs and music phones. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |