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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:The Price of Flash by matt21811 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone can check the spot price for flash anytime by looking at this site:

    http://www.dramexchange.com/

    Scroll down to the flash section.
    SLC is the good stuff used in the big fast SSD's you get from people like Apple.
    MLC is the slower, less long lasting, stuff commonly used in thumb drives.
    $2.08 for a Gigabyte in MLC
    $6.70 for a Gigabyte of SLC

    If you want to know the long term price improvement rate for flash, you can join that site for $1000 a year or if you want the cheap version, I've been tracking retail flash (MLC) prices for 9 years at my site here:
    http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/flashmemory.html

  2. Memory is almost always ahead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Memory is almost always ahead of the curve when it comes to silicon manufacturing. These were the guys who were at 55nm when the processor industry was temporarily stuck at 90nm.

    All kinds of memory can use smaller processes because the logic is much simpler; you're basically laying the same thing out over and over and over again on a die. For the same exact reason, most companies use SRAMs to test their processes before moving up to higher level logic like processors.