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Samsung Starts Mass Producing New 512GB NVMe SSD That's Smaller Than a Stamp (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the industry's-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via PCWorld: Samsung announced late Monday night that it has begun mass producing a new SSD that is tinier than a postage stamp. PCWorld reports: "The PM971-NVMe fits up to 512GB of NAND flash, a controller, and RAM into a single BGA chip measuring 20mm x 16mm x 1.5mm and weighing just one gram, the company said. Samsung says the PM971-NVMe will hit 1.5GBps read speeds and 800MBps write speeds. The PM971-NVMe is built using 20nm NAND chips and includes 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM as a cache. The NAND is triple-level cell but uses a portion as a write butter. The drive will come in 512GB, 256GB and 128GB capacities." While on the topic of hardware, Intel unveiled its Broadwell-E family, which consists of an "Extreme Edition" Core i7 chipset that has 10 cores and 20 threads.

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  1. The NAND isn't 20nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The LPDDR4 is 20nm. The NAND is their 48 layer vnand per the linked article. Pretty impressive amount of packaging/die stacking going on there.

  2. Re: Stamp-sized SSDs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are priced like extremely rare collector stamps.

  3. Re: Stamp-sized SSDs... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are priced like extremely rare collector stamps.

    EXCEPT that the ones with errors do not sell for a premium.