SanDisk today introduced SanDisk iNAND , a small, easily integrated high-speed NAND flash storage device that is available in capacities and price points that make it an attractive alternative to micro hard drives. Embedded flash memory is a popular storage solution for consumer electronics products such as MP3 players, GPS devices, personal media players and mobile phones.

SanDisk iNAND offers increased design flexibility since it is designed to work seamlessly in conjunction with a removable card slot. iNAND also incorporates for the first time SanDisk’s new TrustedFlash technology, assuring the same level of content security for embedded stored data that is available on TrustedFlash cards.

One of the key applications for SanDisk iNAND is the increasingly popular, full-featured mobile phones that are being offered in the market today. These new phones offer many storage-intensive features such as high-resolution digital cameras, video capture and playback and MP3 players. These advanced features require a storage solution that combines high-speed performance and large capacities in a small package. Like all of SanDisk’s family of card products, iNAND is a system-based solution for these applications that comes in a single, integrated package.

SanDisk iNAND incorporates the industry’s most advanced multi-level cell (MLC) 8-gigabit (Gb) chip to achieve up to 4-gigabyte (GB) capacity in a single package. Since this advanced technology is integrated directly into the iNAND flash on board controller, OEMs can quickly benefit from MLC’s lower cost per megabyte and increased performance without the need to devote the time and resources required to develop their own expertise.

SanDisk’s iNAND flash incorporates TrustedFlash technology for applications that require highly secure content protection, such as street maps in GPS or music in handsets. SanDisk iNAND will be available in capacities ranging from 256MB to 4GB. Product samples are available now with production scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2005. Pricing for 2GB iNAND devices is $95 in 10,000-lot quantities.