Micron starts bleeding edge 232-layer NAND production
Micron announced that it has begun shipping 232-layer TLC NAND. The new NAND will certainly be finding its way into the fastest SSDs on the market, including Micron’s Crucial branded SSDs. The new NAND delivers 100% higher write bandwidth, more than 75% higher read bandwidth, a 50% increase in transfer rate and a 28% package size reduction.
According to Micron(opens in new tab) (via Digitimes(opens in new tab)) this means these cutting-edge NAND dies are smaller, faster and denser than anything else on the market. They are suited for everything from high end consumer SSDs, to mobile and data centre applications.
«Micron's 232-layer NAND is a watershed moment for storage innovation as first proof of the capability to scale 3D NAND to more than 200 layers in production,» said Scott DeBoer, executive vice president of technology and products at Micron. «This ground breaking technology required extensive innovation, including advanced process capabilities to create high aspect ratio structures, novel materials advancements and leading-edge design enhancements that build on our market-leading 176-layer NAND technology.»
Though high-performance and enterprise products will be the first to market, the increased density of this new NAND should lead to more affordable and higher capacity drives in the future. The ability to cram more chips into a given form factor means that enterprise SSDs with capacities of over 100TB (at tens of thousands of dollars mind you) will be possible, while in the consumer market, drives in the 4TB+ range should come within the price range of mainstream buyers.
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