Toshiba has announced it’s now manufacturing a new type of flash memory chip that offers about twice the storage density of previous NAND flash memory chips.
The company has been partnering with SanDisk to develop 3D NAND flash memory since last year, and the new chips could hit the streets in early 2016.
The new BiCS Flash chip is a 256 gigabit (or 32 gigabyte) 3D NAND flash storage chip with 48-layers and 3-bits-per-cell. It comes less than half a year after Toshiba introduced the first 128Gb (16GB) models.
In addition to enabling Toshiba to pack more storage into smaller modules, the company says its BiCS flash memory technology offers improved write speeds and better reliability for write and erase endurance.
Toshiba says the new chips could be used for solid state disks, smartphones, tablets, memory cards, and other devices that rely on flash storage.
Toshiba and SanDisk aren’t the only companies working on 3D NAND chips… and 3D NAND also isn’t the only game in town though. Intel and Micron recently announced a new storage technology called 3D Xpoint, which the companies say could offer speeds up to 1,000 times faster than existing NAND flash storage.
via Computer World and Hexus
So much news about smaller and cheaper NAND technology. I’m still waiting for a 1tb SSD to cost less than $300.
Will less than $320 do?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226596&ignorebbr=1
I’d be a buyer around $200.
so more memory-density means more heat with even less surface. considering that my 1TB SSD has far bigger heat-problems than my current Intel SoC…
there will be problems!