Samsung announced today that it is now shipping 1 and 2 gigabyte (GB) samples of moviNAND - an embedded combination of NAND flash memory, a multimedia card (MMC) controller and onboard firmware -- to leading manufacturers of mobile products.

As an embedded memory card, Samsung's moviNAND makes it unnecessary to have an external memory card slot in mobile devices. Another option is to use the embedded flash with a removable MMC card to enable a virtually unlimited amount of higher storage capacity.

Samsung said mass production of moviNAND in 1 and 2 GB densities starts this month. The company will further add 512MB and 4GB densities by the end of this year.