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Memory maker SanDisk has ousted its latest USB flash drive, claiming it's the smallest that the company has ever released.

SanDisk today announced a removable memory card for mobile phones that offers a whopping 32-gigabytes of storage--not too shabby for a device that's roughly the size of a thumbnail. The new microSDHC 32GB card doubles the storage capacity of the vendor's 16GB microSDHC offering, which debuted just over a year ago. The bad news is that the 32GB model costs $200, or nearly four times the street price of most 16GB microSDHC cards.

SanDisk plans to upgrade a flash memory plant that it operates with Toshiba in Japan.

Sandisk on Thursday announced it had reached a deal to restructure its manufacturing joint venture with Toshiba.

Storage manufacturer Seagate will release its first solid-state drive for enterprises by the middle of next year, CEO Bill Watkins said on Tuesday.

Toshiba will partially buy-out SanDisk's stake in two flash memory production joint ventures the companies are running in Japan under a provisional deal that was announced Monday.

SanDisk has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from hardware maker Samsung Electronics, saying that it undervalues the Milpitas, California, maker of flash storage cards.