NAND
The solid state storage industry has been in a well-documented slide for the better part of the last year now. With storage product demand from both the client and datacenter businesses down well off of its highs in a notoriously cyclical business, we've already seen the big three memory manufacturers – SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron – significantly cut back on NAND production. And now the repercussions of this downturn are starting to spread to the SSD makers themselves, with Solidigm confirming that they have laid off employees due to the industry downturn. Responding to an information request from AnandTech, Solidigm, Intel's former SSD business unit that is now controlled by SK hynix, confirmed that the company has recently engaged in layoffs. Terming it a...
SD Association Announces SD 5.0 Specification: SD Cards For UHD and 360° Video Capture
The SD Association, the multi-vendor consortium responsible for developing standards for Secure Digital flash memory cards, has unveiled the newest version of the Secure Digital standard, SD 5.0. The...
14 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2016
Samsung SSD Update: 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND & Three New TLC SSDs Announced
When Samsung took the stage at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit, they admittedly didn't deliver any bombshell announcements on the scale of the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint surprise, but they...
61 by Billy Tallis on 8/13/2015
Toshiba Brings Through-Silicon Vias to NAND Flash
At Flash Memory Summit this week, Toshiba is showing off a NAND flash device packaged using through-silicon vias rather than traditional wire-bonded connections. The NAND flash currently on the market...
18 by Billy Tallis on 8/12/2015
Toshiba and SanDisk Announce 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND
This week Toshiba and SanDisk are announcing a new milestone in their joint development of flash memory. Back in March Toshiba announced a 48-layer 3D NAND technology that they...
28 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2015
Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 3/27/2015
Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015
Toshiba Announces 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND - Samples Shipping Today
The 3D NAND race is heating up. Samsung has been shipping its 3D NAND products for over six months now, but so far we have known very little about...
13 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015
The State of SanDisk
Back at Flash Memory Summit I had the opportunity to meet with all the key people at SanDisk. There is a lot going on at SanDisk at the moment...
132 by Kristian Vättö on 12/5/2014
Intel's 3D NAND to Ship in H2'15: 256Gbit Die & 32 Layers
Last Thursday in its annual Investor Meeting Intel revealed the first details of its 3D NAND technology and announced that it will begin the shipments of 3D NAND in...
58 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2014
Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop
As alluded to in our Nexus 6 review, our normal storage performance benchmark was no longer giving valid results as of Android 5.0. While Androbench was not a perfect...
93 by Brandon Chester & Joshua Ho on 11/20/2014
Measuring Toshiba's 15nm 128Gbit MLC NAND Die Size
Courtesy of Custom PC Review At Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba was showcasing their latest 15nm 128Gbit MLC NAND wafer that has been developed in partnership with SanDisk. I simply could...
12 by Kristian Vättö on 8/22/2014
Toshiba and Qualcomm Set to Introduce UFS 2.0 Solutions in 2014
Since they first started showing up on the market, most smartphones and tablets have used eMMC flash storage. While in some ways similar to the NAND flash used in...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2014
Micron Announces 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND, SSDs in 2014
Earlier today Micron announced its first 16nm MLC NAND device. The 128Gbit device is architecturally identical to the current 20nm/128Gbit 2-bit-per-cell MLC device that's shipping today but smaller. That...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/16/2013
Intel SSD 335 (240GB) Review
Back in February, Intel released its first SandForce based SSD: the Intel SSD 520. Since then Intel's SSD lineup has evolved. A couple of months after the 520's release...
70 by Kristian Vättö on 10/29/2012
SandForce Demos 19nm Toshiba & 20nm IMFT NAND Flash
SandForce's controllers have fairly broad compatibility with NAND available on the market today. It shouldn't be a surprise that the first demo we saw of Toshiba's 19nm and Intel/Micron's...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012
Intel Sells Some of Its IMFT Stake to Micron
Intel and Micron today announced that they have done some modifications to their agreements on their IMFT joint venture. In short, Intel is selling its stake in two fabs...
6 by Kristian Vättö on 2/28/2012
Intel and Micron (IMFT) Announce World's First 128Gb 20nm MLC NAND
Earlier this year, Intel and Micron's joint NAND manufacturing venture (IMFT) announced it had produced 64Gb (8GB) MLC NAND on a 20nm process. Most IMFT NAND that's used in...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2011
SanDisk-Toshiba Take Back The Crown With A Different Kind of NAND
After 11 years of partnership, Sandisk and Toshiba's timing could not have been better. Just seven days after losing the NAND crown to Intel and Micron (IMFT) they announce...
35 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/5/2011
Intel & Micron Announce First 20nm MLC NAND Flash for Use in SSDs
We just started testing SSDs based on IMFT 25nm NAND Flash and look at what Intel/Micron just announced? The first 8GB MLC NAND device built on a 20nm process...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2011
Micron's ClearNAND: 25nm + ECC, Combats Increasing Error Rates
NAND endurance is on its way down with each subsequent process generation. At the same time unrecoverable bit error rates are on their way up. Companies like SandForce have...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2010
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