The two companies will be building individual chip layers with 32 gigabits (4GB) of data in the smaller manufacturing process and using regular 300mm wafers in large batches. Each layer is capable of allowing eight cores, which means a two-layer stack can carry 64GB without ever needing a separate chip.

This new chip is a much needed breakthrough in the portable electronics industry. These chips are smaller in size and yet has very high capacity. We will see increase in capacities of Solid State Drives when these are are finally made available for purchase.

Companies are believed to be waiting on chips like these to upgraded the storage of their products. At this point of time neither Intel nor Micron are saying anything on when the chips will be available for shipping, it could be an early 2009 release considering the fact that the chips are already into production.

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Intel unveiled new features for its low-cost Classmate PCs by adding bigger screen, more data storage. The new Classmate PC will go on sale in April for a price of $300 and $500.

The PC will be available both in 7-inch and 9-inch LCD display, comes with Intel Celeron M processor, 512MB RAM, six-cell battery, integrated Web Camera, and Wi-Fi support.

Intel says the future versions will be available with an Intel’s Atom processor.