New flash plant in Toshiba's future?

It will use 300-millimeter wafers and provide 100,000 wafers per month.

Toshiba already has three facilities in that plant that provide 80,000 wafers per month.

The company denied the reported schedule, location and investment amount.

Toshiba has been the main supplier of mini hard-drives for Apple’s popular iPod music players.

But Apple partly shifted its focus into flash-based players like the iPod Nano and Shuffle.

Yuhei Iwamoto of CNET Japan reported from Tokyo.