You can’t, my grandmother told me, put a quart into a pint pot, but it seems Samsung are determined to do just that with their next-gen NAND flash memory chips: they’re promising capacities of 128GB by 2009, which could find their way into a future iPod Touch.  It’s all done by a dual-pass process where the standard, 60nm-spaced chips are interlaced with a new, far more precise pattern of lithography that leaves you with 30nm rows.

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