Toshiba, SanDisk Piloting 3D NAND That Doubles Previous Capacity

Lucas123 writes: Under a joint development agreement, Toshiba and SanDisk have begun pilot production of a new 48-layer 256Gb NAND flash chip in a brand new fab in Mie prefecture, Japan. The new X3 chips, which double capacity from 16GB to 32GB over the previous product, are made with triple-level cell (TLC) flash compared with Toshiba's last multi-level cell (MLC) chip, which stored two-bits per transistor. The chips are expected to begin shipping in products next year. The companies plan to use the new memory in a wide number of products, including consumer SSDs, smartphones, tablets, memory cards, and enterprise SSDs for data centers, the companies said.

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Back in my day

[Scottingham]

Our storage mediums spun and made noises! And we liked it!

Re:Will not buy TLC NAND

[amorsen]

Did you think SLC (single level cells) had 1 levels per cell, thereby storing 0 bits?

I own one of those. It reads zero in all locations.