Ever more capacity for flash memories

The market of USB keys is the best indicator - even better than that of the iPod nano or Shuffle - that the run toward ever bigger flash memory capacity at a cheaper price is far from over. While two years ago you would have spent a fortune for a 1GB key, now they cost peanuts and you can even find 8GB keys under €100.
But that was only the beginning, it seems: Sandisk and Toshiba have announced the forthcoming production of 56nm flash memories.
Such a finer process technology will make it possible to give a %50 boost on the capacity for the same price.
The chip-makers haven't given further details concerning the access and transfer rates, but we can only hope they will match the increase of capacity or we'll end up with huge portable memory tanks taking ages to fill!