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Friday, 20 September 2013

Toshiba PX35t-A2306 All-in-One Desktop

Pros HDMI-In. Good performance. Minimal styling. Fits in to most decor.

Cons No Blu-ray. Odd shaped mouse. No 5GHz 802.11 Wi-Fi support. Some pre-loaded software. Bottom Line The Toshiba PX35t-A2306 All-in-One Desktop is a solid choice if you're in the market for a Windows 8 touch PC. However, though sufficient, there's not a lot to elevate it enough above the pack.

By Joel Santo Domingo

The Toshiba PX35t-A2306 All-in-One Desktop ($1,191.99 list) is a solid, well priced Windows 8 touch PC. If you get one, it will serve you well for the five to seven years (or more) that most people hold on to PCs these days. It's better than many, but not quite enough become the next top dog among the mainstream all-in-one desktops.

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Design and Features
The PX35t-A2306 is a fairly understated all-in-one desktop, it looks very much like a 23-inch HDTV, and its 1,920 by 1,080 resolution touch screen ensures that you can watch full HD videos in native resolution. The screen takes up most of the front façade, with just enough bezel around the screen to activate off-screen gestures like brining up the Charms menu in Windows 8. This is a more responsive and versatile senor than the IR touch display on the HP Pavilion TouchSmart 23-F260XT AIO ($999). There's a silver bar at the bottom of the screen suggesting a speaker bar, but the built-in speakers with DTS sound are bottom firing. Sound from these stereo speakers won't fill a room, but they are adequate for most PC uses. The system is on a stand, which gives the user a spot to stow the keyboard under the screen. The screen has a decent tilt for sitting and standing users, but no height adjustment, and you can't lay the system flat for touch use. The current Editors' Choice Vizio 27-inch All-in-One Touch PC (CA27T-B1) ($1,549) goes the other direction with styling that stands out.

The PX35t-A2306 has an ultrabook-class Intel Core i5-3230M processor, 8GB of system memory, and a 1TB hard drive. With the 8GB of memory and 1TB hard drive, you have enough extra overhead to make sure the average user won't find herself in a situation where she runs out of either for a good five years. Also adding to the longevity are the system's DVD burner and HDMI-in port. The DVD burner will come in handy those rare times you have to re-rip a CD so you can put it on your smartphone, and the HDMI-in port will help extend the utility of the built in display. You can hook a cable box up to the HDMI in port or use it with a laptop or desktop PC once the internal components have inevitably become obsolete.

The PX35t-A2306 comes with a few pre-loaded utilities, including Amazon, Toshiba Book Place. WildTangent games, Stumbleupon, eBay, iHeartRadio, Netflix, Vimeo, Skype, Hulu Plus, a Deal app, Evernote Touch, Norton Internet Security (30-days), News Place, Origin (games store), a trial for Microsoft Office, and a few other Toshiba utilities. While par for the course for a retail system, budget an hour or so to get rid of the ones you don't use, or be prepared to see their tiles every time you boot your PC. The PX35t-A2306 comes with a one-year warranty.

Performance
Toshiba PX35t-A2306 All-in-One Desktop The PX35t-A2306 exhibits average to above average performance for an all-in-one desktop, thanks to its Core i5-3230M processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000, 8GB of memory, and 7,200rpm drive. It lags the Vizio CA 27T-B1, since the more expensive Vizio has a Core i7 processor and a caching SSD. Likewise, the Asus Transformer AIO (P1801-B037K) ($1,299) and Apple iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2012) ($1,299) both have Nvidia discrete graphics for better 3D performance. That said, overall the PX35t-A2306 has the power to keep most moderately fussy users happy for several years of service life.

Toshiba PX35t-A2306 All-in-One Desktop

The Toshiba PX35t-A2306 is a nice all-in-one desktop. It has enough power and features to keep most users happy for the five to seven years that they would keep the system before considering an upgrade. That said, other systems like the Editors' Choice Vizio CA27T-B1 and Apple iMac have better features and performance that outshine the unassuming Toshiba. Solid, yes, but the PX35t-A2306 doesn't surpass the Vizio CA27T-B1 or Apple iMac 21.5-inch enough to get a higher score, nor the top spot.


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Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277

Pros Great performance from fourth-gen Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia graphics. Touch screen. DVD drive reads and burns to disc. A sizeable 1TB hard drive offers lots of storage capacity.

Cons Display is only 720p. Battery life is a little short. Bottom Line The Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277 offers category leading performance and a healthy feature set, but the ho-hum design and short battery life keep it from ranking higher.

By Brian Westover

Looking for a desktop replacement notebook for less than a grand? The Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277 has plenty to offer, like a 15.6-inch touch screen, a rich feature set, and superb performance thanks to a fourth-generation Intel Core i7-4700MQ procecssor and Nvidia GeForce GT 740M discrete GPU. It may not be the most portable laptop around, but for the user who is likely to keep close to home, the blend of performance and features make it a smart buy.

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Design
The Toshiba Satellite S55t weds mostly plastic construction with a layer of brushed aluminum across the lid and palmrest, adding a luxurious note to an otherwise utilitarian design. The combination of plastic and aluminum is a little thick and bulky, measuring 1.2 by 15.2 by 9.9 inches (HWD) and weighing 5.3 pounds.

The 15.6-inch display is a bit plain with only 1366-by-768 resolution, but for a touch-capable system, we wouldn't expect more without a bump in price. The HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook 15-4010nr, for example, offers a 1080p touch screen, but costs considerably more.

Just below the display is a speaker grill concealing two Harman/Kardon speakers. Paired with DTS Studio Sound, the overall sound quality is very good, with a wide volume range and clear sound even when turned up high. The bass was a little weaker than I'd like, but you'll still be able to enjoy a bass-heavy song. You can also tweak the sound to your liking with the DTS Sound Studio, which includes several audio optimization tools.

The Satellite S55t features a full-size chiclet keyboard and 10-key numeric pad, complete with LED backlight. Unlike the compact numeric pad seen on the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T, the Toshiba keeps the same key shape and spacing as the rest of the keyboard, which should make things a bit more comfortable for anyone doing data entry or working in spreadsheets.

The accompanying clickpad has a plasticy surface, but it's responsive and the integrated right and left buttons didn't give us any trouble during testing. The touchpad also gestures like two-fingered scrolling and zoom, along with Windows 8 gestures, such as swiping in from the edges to access the Charms Bar or cycle through open apps.

Features
On the front edge of the laptop is an SD card slot. Two USB 3.0 ports are on the side, with a third USB 2.0 port featuring Sleep-and-Charge, letting you use it to power and charge your phone or media player even when the laptop is powered off. A LAN connection gives you wired Gigabit Ethernet, while the laptop is also equipped with 802.11n Wi-Fi.

A tray-loading optical drive (DVD+-RW dual-layer) is on one side, and features video upscaling to make standard definition content look better on the 720p screen or when connected to an HDTV through the HDMI output. A VGA output also lets you connect to a second monitor or projector.

Internally, the Satellite S55t is outfitted with a 1TB hard drive, offering copious space for all of your stuff, even a sizeable media collection. Toshiba regularly includes a number of preinstalled programs and apps on its systems, and the Satellite S55t is no exception, with more than a dozen proprietary and third-party apps already on the system at purchase, including regular Microsoft offerings, like Skype, Internet Explorer 10, and a 30-day trial of Office 365. There are additional 1-month trials of Norton Anti-Theft, Norton Internet Security, and Norton Online Backup. Toshiba also throws in its own app store (Toshiba AppPlace), ebook store (BookPlace), and some game extras from EA Games and WildTangent Games. Toshiba covers the Satellite S55t with a one-year limited warranty.

Performance
Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277 The Satellite S55t is equipped with a fourth-generation quad-core processor, the Intel Core i7-4700MQ (2.4GHz), paired with an impressive 12GB of RAM. The new CPU is a full generation ahead of the Ivy Bridge processors found in the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart and Dell Inspiron 15z (I15Z-4801SLV), and the extra ram will help keep performance feeling pretty speedy even after a few months, and you likely won't ever need to upgrade the RAM, though you could bump it up to 16GB.

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The combination of a quad-core processor and 12GB of RAM produced solid results in our various tests. It finished PCMark 7 with 4,924 points, pulling ahead of the Asus VivoBook V551LB (3,176 points) and the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart (4,720 points). In the processor intensive Cinebench R11.5, it scored 5.84 points, a dramatic improvement over the likes of the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T (2.92 points) and the Dell Inspiron 15z (2.89 points). That difference also translated into dramatically improved performance in Handbrake, finishing the video transcoding test in 39 seconds, while the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T and the Dell Inspiron 15z both took more than a minute to complete the same task.

Performance was also boosted thanks to the inclusion of an Nvidia GeForce GT 740M graphics processor with 2GB of dedicated memory. Thanks to the extra processing hardware, the Satellite S55t completed 3DMark 11 with scores of 3,245 points (Entry) and 560 (Extreme). In our gaming tests, the Satellite S55t eked out 23 frames per second in both Heaven and Aliens vs. Predator, when set to low detail settings. As such, we can't recommend it for any sort of serious gaming, but you should be able to enjoy less demanding games like Team Fortress 2. The graphics card includes Nvidia's Optimus automatic switching, which extends battery life by switching to Intel integrated graphics solution when the discrete GPU isn't needed.

In our rundown test the Satellite S55t lasted 3 hours 41 minutes, which isn't terrible for a smaller 4-cell 43Wh battery, but you will need to bring along the AC adapter for anything more than a long lunch. In stark contrast, the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T lasted a stunning 7:47, but it easily leads the category, which averages closer to 4 hours.

The Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277 may not be as portable as we'd like--it's a little bulky, and the battery life is on the shorter side--but the overall performance leads the competition, making it hard to ignore. The design is a bit drab, and the 720p display left us wanting more, but it does offer a decent set of features, making the Toshiba Satellite S55t-A5277 worth a good look from anybody in the market for a desktop replacement.


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Thursday, 5 September 2013

Toshiba intros new Satellites: The ND15t notebook, Encore tablet, and Click detachable

Toshiba took the wraps off a new Windows 8.1 tablet and two new Windows laptops at IFA Berlin today. Toshiba is tapping two CPUs from Intel's all-new Bay Trail family—the Celeron N2810 and an unspecified Atom processor—as well as a low-cost chip from AMD's new Temash family of APUs.

Toshiba’s Satellite Encore is an eight-inch touchscreen tablet with a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. It's powered by an Intel Bay Trail Atom processor, 2GB of memory, and 32GB of storage. It can support an additional 32GB of storage via its MicroSD slot.

Toshiba Encore Portrait ModeToshiba's new eight-inch Encore tablet uses a new Bay Trail Atom processor, which is based on Intel's Silvermont microarchitecture.

In a briefing with PCWorld last week, Toshiba’s group product marketing manager, Young Bae, described the Encore as “a hardware platform that can deliver the entertainment and productivity capabilities of Windows. It’s being developed closely with Microsoft, and will be one of Microsoft’s featured devices for the Windows 8.1 launch and Microsoft’s holiday marketing campaign.”

The Encore will feature a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a dual-array beam-forming microphone, and Dolby Digital audio technology with dialogue enhancement. It will be Skype certified and ship with the full version of Microsoft’s Office Home & Student 2013.

The Encore will support Windows 8.1’s InstantGo technology, so that the tablet will receive a constant data feed (email, app, and tile updates) even while asleep. It will resume from sleep in less than 300 milliseconds.

Toshiba Encore landscape modeThe Encore will run Microsoft's Windows 8.1 operating system.

The Encore can also operate as a secondary screen for the Xbox One, tapping Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass technology. The tablet measures 0.42 inches thick and weighs 16.9 ounces. According to Bae, the Satellite Encore “will be available in November, hot on the heels of Windows 8.1.” Toshiba has priced the tablet at $330.

Bae described the Satellite Click detachable PC as a “productivity machine when docked to its keyboard that behaves like a tablet when detached.” The two-piece unit runs Windows 8 and consists of an 13.3-inch, multi-touch IPS display that functions as a tablet on its own, or as a notebook when docked to its keyboard.

Toshiba Sattelite Click The new Satellite Click can operate as either a 13.3-inch tablet or a conventional notebook.

The Click is powered by a dual-core AMD A4 processor (from AMD’s new Temash family), 4GB of DDR3/1600 memory, and a 500GB mechanical hard drive. The tablet portion of the combo will also feature a built-in webcam, gyroscope, and accelerometer. The I/O ports include micro HDMI and micro USB.

The keyboard dock will have a full-size USB 3.0 port and its own battery. When the combo is plugged into an AC adapter, the tablet will be charged first. When the two units are docked and operating on battery power, the keyboard will continuously charge the tablet. The keyboard also offers Toshiba's USB Sleep & Charge technology and will be able to charge a USB device even when the system is otherwise sleeping.

The $599 Satellite Click will go on sale at Best Buy and Toshiba Direct later this month.

Could we be seeing the resurgence of the netbook? The $380 Satellite ND15t will use a new Celeron N2810 dual-core processor, which—like the Atom in the aforementioned Toshiba Encore—is a member of Intel’s new Bay Trail family of processors.

Toshiba Satellite NB15tToshiba is going after the Chromebook market with this very inexpensive Windows laptop.

During last week’s briefing, Bae said the new Celeron delivers 1.5 times the performance of performance of Intel’s older Cedar Trail processors, and 3 times better graphics performance.

The “clutch-sized,” 3.3-pound notebook will have an 11.6-inch touchscreen, HDMI, USB 3.0, and an 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter. “The ND15t is another option for value-minded consumers,” said Bae, “a more useful alternative to Chromebooks, with 500GB of local storage and Windows 8.” Toshiba expects the ND15t to be available in November.

Michael manages PCWorld's hardware product reviews and contributes to TechHive's coverage of home-control systems and sound bars.
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Toshiba shows prototype 50-inch 4K TV

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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Toshiba PX35t review: This budget all-in-one is quick, stylish and a great choice for the student

Toshiba PX35t-A2210 $930.00 The Toshiba PX35t-A2210 is a relatively powerful all-in-one desktop machine. While it is more expensive than the rest of this field, it delivers the performance and features to back up its price tag.

If looks are your top priority, Toshiba’s PX35t-A2210 ($930 as of 8/30/13) will surely woo you with its slim, attractive design. This 23-inch AIO sports a glossy full HD touchscreen, modern-looking wireless peripherals, and a third-generation Intel Core i3-3120M processor. It also boasts 6GB of DDR3/1600 RAM, built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and a roomy 1TB, 7200rpm hard drive.

There's plenty to like about Toshiba's PX35t-A2210, but its sharply angular mouse isn't one of them.

But looks aren’t everything, and the PX35t-A2210 isn’t just a pretty centerpiece for your desk, it’s also a good all-around performer, delivering a Desktop Worldbench 8.1 score of 131. That means it’s nearly one-third faster than our baseline machine, the Acer Aspire A5600U-UB13 . You won’t mistake the PX35t-A2210 for a top-of-the-line gaming machine, but it’ll do just fine managing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; surfing the Web and checking email; and streaming HD clips from Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube.

The PX35t-A2210 relies on the Intel HD 4000 Graphics processor integrated into its CPU, rather than a discrete graphics card, but it can still handle many graphics-related tasks without falling over and dying. It outperformed the rest of the field with our BioShock Infinite benchmark, for instance, delivering the game at 26.6 frames per second (albeit with resolution of just 1024 by 768 pixels and image quality at Low). It took a first-place finish with Dirt Showdown, too, delivering the game at 47 frames per second (here again, with resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels and image quality set to low). This PC won’t have any problem with less visually intense games, such as MMORPGs. Simpler photo- and video-editing tasks won’t be an issue, either.

PCWorld all-in-one PC roundupThe Desktop Worldbench 8.1 chart is repeated here, so you don't have to have to go back to the previous page to see an overall performance snapshot.

Toshiba outfitted the PX35t-A2210 with a glossy 23-inch multitouch screen with native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. It’s a very good display, but it’s not perfect. While it’s extremely bright, and images look crisp and clear on it, colors look a little dull and whites have a yellowish tint. It’s also not the most accurate touchscreen I’ve used. There were several moments in my testing when I accidentally hit the link below the one I was trying to tap. Multitouch gestures are smooth and seamless, but the glass has an ever-so-slightly tacky feeling to it, which can make gliding across its surface a little tough. But it’s a much better input device than the PX35t-A2210’s mouse, which is a modern-looking angular thing that felt uncomfortable and sharp in my hand. The keyboard, meanwhile, delivers shallow tactile feedback but accurate typing.

The Toshiba PX35t-A2210 is attractive, usable, and relatively powerful. It’s a great choice for college students looking to balance work and play, since it performs basic administrative tasks with ease and can also play streaming HD video without a hitch. It has excellent Harman/Kardon speakers (with a Sleep and Music feature that lets you play your digital media player through them), and an ample collection of other I/O ports: Four USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, and one HDMI input (so you can plug in a cable/satellite set-top box or a videogame console).

Editor's note: This all-in-one was reviewed as part of a roundup for back-to-school season. You can read that story, along with reviews of the five all-in-ones we compared it to, here.


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Friday, 30 August 2013

Toshiba Satellite L55Dt-A5253 review: This 15.6-inch budget laptop does well on benchmarks but has some physical drawbacks

The buyers that Toshiba targets with its luxury Kirabook wouldn’t touch a Satellite L55Dt-A5253 if Neiman Marcus was giving them away. That’s too bad, because this laptop actually offers a much better price-to-performance ratio.

Toshiba selected AMD’s 2.0GHz A6-5200 APU to power this $650 notebook. That chip features an integrated AMD Radeon HD 8400 graphics processor, which helped Toshiba secure a second-place finish in the games portion of our benchmark suite. But the machine’s 6GB of DDR3 memory runs at only 1333MHz, which held its performance back in comparison to some of the laptops equipped with Intel CPUs and faster DDR3/1600 memory.

Toshiba Satellite L55Dt-A5253ToshibaToshiba's Satellite L55Dt-A5253 uses AMD’s A6-5200 processor, which has an integrated Radeon HD 8400 graphics processor.

Like most notebooks in its price range, the Satellite is composed primarily of plastic, but Toshiba’s attractive material does a nice job of resisting smudges and fingerprints. The computer’s lid and chassis also feel more rigid than most, though it does weigh a full pound more than the Acer Aspire E1—a significant consideration if you’ll be carrying your laptop on your shoulder for extended periods every day.

The Satellite L55Dt features a 15.6-inch, LED-backlit touchscreen display with a native resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels. The display is attractive enough, if you position it just so. Text appears most legibly when the screen is tilted back; but bring it even slightly forward—as you might have to do when using the computer on your airline tray table, if the passenger in front of you decides to recline—and you may not be able to read it at all.

Toshiba Satellite L55Dt-A5253ToshibaThe Toshiba Satellite is one of the more attractive notebooks on the market.

If your arms get tired from reaching out to stroke the Satellite’s screen, you can use its touchpad, instead. The touchpad is centered beneath the keyboard, so it’s off center from wrist rest, but that’s where it should be. It supports all of the usual Windows 8 gestures, including two-finger scrolling, zoom, rotate, and flip. And you can slide in from the right border to call up the charm bar, or slide it from the left to switch between applications. The setup lacks distinct left and right mouse buttons, but you can click the lower area of the pad to obtain the same actions.

Weight is an all-important consideration when you're shopping for a laptop.

Toshiba took advantage of the display’s width to provide a numeric keypad next to the alphanumeric keyboard. The half-size function keys in the top row have useful default actions mapped to them—including controls for such features as volume, brightness, and a media player.

The island-style keyboard has short-travel keys that nevertheless provide a desirable amount of tactile feedback while remaining nearly silent. I wouldn’t have minded the half-size arrow keys if they hadn’t been located so close to the edge of the wrist rest. The entire keyboard is recessed in a well, making it nearly impossible to tell whether your finger is tapping the up arrow or the down arrow without taking your eyes off the screen to look.

Benchmark performance

The Satellite L55Dt-A5253 finished third in our Notebook WorldBench 8.1 benchmark suite, a scant 2 points behind Lenovo’s Intel Core i5–powered IdeaPad Z400 Touch, but 16 points behind the Intel Haswell–powered Acer Aspire E1-572-6870. The Toshiba’s 750GB, 5400-rpm hard drive helped it grab a second-place finish in the PCMark7 Productivity component, but the faster CPU in the Acer Aspire more than compensated for that computer’s smaller drive.

Our Notebook WorldBench 8.1 suite includes a broad array of benchmarks for evaluating a notebook's performance.

Given the amount of hay AMD has made over what it describes as its superior GPU/CPU integration, I had expected to see this A6-powered notebook clean up on the gaming benchmarks. It did reasonably well, but fell 5 fps short of equaling the performance of the Intel-powered Acer Aspire E1.

Connectivity and conclusion

Toshiba provides the usual three USB ports on its Satellite: Two of these are USB 3.0 and you can use the one USB 2.0 port to charge your smartphone (or other USB device) even while the computer is sleeping—a very handy feature. The media card reader in the front of the PC supports only SD media.

Aan HDMI-out supports digital display connections, and VGA handles analog. I don’t want to see HDMI go away, but I’d like to see laptop manufacturers include DisplayPort 1.2 ports on their consumer offerings. A DisplayPort 1.2 connection would let you daisy-chain displays, and you could buy an adapter to handle just about anything else, including VGA.

Like the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch, the Toshiba Satellite L55Dt-A5253 provides a single-band 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter that limits you to accessing overcrowded 2.4GHz networks; worse, the Toshiba’s Realtek RTL8188SU supports a maximum physical link rate of just 150 mbps, whereas the Lenovo’s Intel adapter delivers a 300-mbps maximum link rate and support for Intel’s WiDi media-streaming technology.

Though the Satellite bears a DTS Sound logo, I found its audio capabilities wanting. Music sounded thin and flat, with very little of the oomph I crave from bass response. Stick with headphones, and you should be fine. Finally, this may reflect my right-handed bias, but I found it odd to access the Satellite’s DVD burner on the left side of the computer. The hardwired ethernet port—100 mbps max—is located here, too.

The Satellite L55Dt-A5253 is a well-built laptop that delivers good performance, but many of its drawbacks don’t show up in its benchmark numbers: It’s weighs 5.6 pounds, its off-axis viewing is abysmal, and it has third-rate wireless networking capabilities. Clearly, it’s not the best notebook in this collection, but it’s still a decent value.

Editor's note: This notebook was reviewed as part of a roundup for back-to-school season. You can read that story, along with reviews of the five notebooks we compared it to, here

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Toshiba takes step toward 3D flash memory chips

Toshiba kicked off a project Friday that is the first step toward a new type of memory chip that could provide vastly greater capacity at a lower cost for digital gadgets such as cameras, smartphones and tablets.

The company held a groundbreaking ceremony to begin expansion of its number-five chip fabrication building (fab 5) in Yokkaichi, a state-of-the-art chip production facility in central Japan operated by Toshiba and SanDisk under a joint venture.

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The construction, which is scheduled to last a year, will see the production line expanded to accommodate additional chip fabrication capacity for NAND flash memory, including more advanced conventional manufacturing processes and early generation 3D production techniques.

3D chips are tipped to be the next big thing in the memory market and provide greater data storage capacity by stacking memory cells in layers. Using this method, greatly higher storage capacity can be realized while keeping the chips small enough to fit inside flash memory cards and the cramped insides of modern gadgets.

The project also indicates Toshiba's intention to remain a leader in the competitive flash memory market and also the company's belief that the market will continue to expand.

"After giving careful consideration to the balance of product supply and demand, and noting a recovery driven by growing demand for smartphones, tablets, SSD for enterprise servers, Toshiba now anticipates further medium- to long-term market expansion," the company said in a statement.

Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is martyn_williams@idg.com


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