SanDisk Partners With Nvidia

SanDisk
Corporation announced that the iNAND Extreme Embedded flash Drive (EFD)
supports tablet reference designs based on the NVIDIA Corp.‘s Tegra 4 – the world’s
fastest mobile processor, as per NVIDIA news release, NVIDIA
Introduces World’s Fastest Mobile Processor, January 6, 2013.

Optimized for use in the tablets powered by
Tegra 4, iNAND Extreme delivers an user experience by
enhancing processing performance and providing reliable, high-quality digital
storage.

Tegra 4-based tablet reference designs
offer a technical ‘recipe’ for mobile device developers using the new
mobile processor from NVIDIA,  accelerating the process of
developing powerful new tablets.

With tens of millions of mobile
applications downloaded every day wordlwide, as per Gartner, smartphones
and tablets are increasingly an essential part of today’s smart digital
lifestyle. The demand for mobile platforms with more computing capability,
responsiveness and reliability continues to skyrocket.

"We
knew we needed to offer an outstanding SanDisk flash memory storage solution to
match up to NVIDIA’s impressive Tegra 4 processor," said Drew Henry,
SVP, OEM marketing, SanDisk. "Our
iNAND Extreme product provides tremendous storage performance and high
reliability to the NVIDIA Tegra 4 platform, drawing on SanDisk’s 25-year legacy
of enabling the industry’s most innovative digital devices."

Incorporating 72 custom NVIDIA GeForce GPU
cores and the first quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, Tegra 4 deliversl
performance, outstanding graphics, and battery life to mobile
devices. Featuring a controller, the iNAND Extreme EFD enhances the
sequential and random performance for applications running on Tegra 4, enabling
users to load web pages faster, launch and enjoy applications at fast
speeds, and store more digital content. For shutterbugs, iNAND Extreme improves
photography application performance on mobile devices with Tegra 4, allowing
even quicker multi-shot and faster image capture and store. The
iNAND Extreme EFD is included in Tegra 4 tablet reference designs in capacities
ranging from 16GB to 32GB.

"By
pairing Tegra 4 with the iNAND Extreme, smartphone and tablet makers can create
faster, quicker mobile devices with an even better consumer experience,"
said Phil Carmack, SVP, mobile business unit, NVIDIA.

iNAND Extreme is built on SanDisk’s 19nm process technology, an advanced semiconductor
manufacturing process, and is designed for use in next-generation
tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices. iNAND Extreme
improves multimedia synchronization speeds, file-transfer rates, and OS responsiveness.