Citing ever-increasing mobile demand, which we all know is insane right now, Toshiba is planning to build a new NAND flash memory plant to cope with this demand, according to claims by a Japanese business paper. The Nikkan Kogyo understood it would be the second piece of a fifth plant in the Yokkaichi whore future had previously been in doubt over the tough Japanese economy.

Construction is said to start in the summer, with the aim of it being operational by 2013. Right now, NAND memory is in the heart of virtually all smart devices (smartphones and tablets) and even solid-state drives, which the MacBook Air and Ultrabooks use exclusively. High-performance users, and even mid-range users also now use SSDs.

Toshiba is a main player in the SSD game, against the bigger competitor Samsung, Toshiba still ranks right up there, with the company sometimes being a source of storage supply for Apple. Toshiba is still considered one of the driving forces of the industry, where they're being quite aggressive in pushing flash technology and are planning 19nm manufacturing that could lead to single-chip 128GB memory which should help boost storage in the tight spaces in smart devices.