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Japanese Scientists Develop Long-Life Flash Memory

Posted by kdawson on from the degrades-gracefully-too dept.

schliz writes "Flash memory chips with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years have been developed by Japanese scientists. The new chips also work at lower voltages than conventional chips, according to the scientists from the University of Tokyo. They are said to be scaleable down to at least 10 nm; current Flash chips wouldn't be usable below 20 nm."

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  1. MLC versus SLC by TheSync · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It came as quite a shock to me that the new multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash chips are only good to 10,000 - 100,000 write/erase cycles, compared to the old single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash that were good for 1,000,000 or more write/erase cycles.

    This may not affect you if you are buying flash memory for a consumer camera and you take a few shots per day, but if you are buying a solid-state hard drive you intend to fill with video and erase every few hours, be careful!