[kbeckmann]

You could swap the flash to 16MB, or use a third party (almost) pin compatible clone with 16MB flash if you really want. I implemented a very simple compression scheme as well so you can load 16MB ROMs that compress to a few kilobytes less than that, leaving room for the firmware.

[flatiron]

i thought pretty much everything on the pico was on the same chip including the flash rom (which is 2MB)?

[bdowling]

No, the flash is an external QSPI part.