Might this be what started that 16GB of RAM Rumor?

[Zappykins]

Sirius87 said:

Zappykins said:

[...] If you look at the schematic here.  Notice on the bottom left, past the Bluray and the 500GB Hard Drive, there is a little box saying 8GB Flash.  I haven't found any conformation yet that this is being used as a Solid State Drive, but seems to be a reasonable assumption.  What else would it be?  So there is an extra 8GB of rather fast memory on board.  Sounds like some rumors we heard before might have a factual component to them. [...]

I wouldn't call it a SSD, as SSDs usually have complex controllers. This is an eMMC 4.5 device which uses a standardized controller (see:http://www.jedec.org/news/pressreleases/jedec-announces-publication-e-mmc-standard-update-v45) . There is no real criterion at what point a flash based device starts to be a SSD, but imho at least 2 flash chips (operating in parallel) are required.

I agree, that is why I'm not calling it that.  But what else might it be doing around in there? 

It doesn't say how many chips, just that it is (an unexpected) 8GB Flash.