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Intel & Micron Show 34-nm, 32-Gbit Flash Memory Chip

Posted by kdawson on from the you-say-tera-i-say-peta dept.

Lucas123 writes "IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, announced it has developed a 32-gigabit NAND flash memory chip that is expected to enable the production of cheaper solid-state drives with twice the storage capacity of today's products. The 34-nanometer, multi-level chip is smaller than Intel's latest CPUs. Samples will be available in June with production by the end of the year."

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  1. Re:Phirst Spot by Sentry21 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More importantly, smaller allows it to fit into smaller devices, meaning larger-capacity USB drives, cellphones, and iPods.

  2. Re:A Bit Of Confusion With Flash Sizes by Frenchman113 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can combine them. Or make larger chips. The achievement in TFA is significant because of the storage density achieved.

  3. Re:Reliability by quanticle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, you're getting 200Mb/s, but you need four drives to do it. A SSD can give you the same performance and reliability as a RAID array in a single drive. Sure, right now, that single drive will cost as much as your entire array, but that situation will improve as manufacturing volumes increase and prices come down.

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