Smartphones, tablets and PCs are about to get a whole lot more storage capacity thanks to new 3D flash chips from Intel and Micron that cram more bits into a smaller space.

With the 3D NAND chips, which started shipping Thursday, solid-state drives with more than 10TB of storage are just around the corner, said Brian Shirley, vice president of memory and technology solutions at Micron.

For high-end tablets or lightweight laptops, the flash chips could be combined into gumstick-sized SSDs with more than 3.5TB of capacity. In smartphones, the new chips could let manufacturers double or triple capacity without raising prices. The maximum storage capacity in handsets today is 128GB.

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