"Samsung has developed a process for the latter....and got awards for it."

With that, also note, the effort for the flash density was a co development with Toshiba...IMO, Samsung got the award because of their flash having a finer grain process.....along with the new on board RAM arrangement/paging process.....Has Toshiba implemented the same RAM process?....IMO...they have.

Samsung 51nm 16Gb MLC NAND Flash

Toshiba 56nm 16Gb MLC NAND Flash

http://www.semiconductor.com/insight...

doni