This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. In case you hadn’t noticed, solid-state drives keep getting bigger and faster. Back in 2008, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 This article is more than 6 years old. Two important ...

At the recent Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2022 the engineering team at YMTC have unveiled its latest X3-9070 TLC 3D NAND flash powered by Xtacking 3.0 architecture. YMTC’s Xtacking 3.0 architecture ...

Micron Technology recently unveiled 176-layer, triple-level-cell (TLC), 3D NAND flash memory with a 30% smaller die size that employs a new replacement-gate (RG) NAND technology. The chips offer a 35% ...

Comparison of NAND flash level-cell types. What are the benefits of pseudo-SLC versus TLC and the others? How pSLC creates new storage capacities. Today's NAND flash technology industry is awash with ...

Solid state drive and drive enabling technology continues to roll out. I will try to capture some of the latest developments that I have seen over the last month and a half. These range from an update ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it has successfully developed its fifth-generation 3D NAND technology, BiCS5, continuing the company’s ...

NAND flash contract prices are expected to hold flat in the third quarter of 2020, but prices for 3D 3bits/cell (TLC) NAND chips have come under increasingly downward pressure due to a further ...

Micron has announced it's shipping 176-layer TLC NAND flash memory to customers in a a move that portends larger, faster and even cheaper SSD drives. The company said its 5th-gen 3D NAND memory should ...

In August, Samsung revealed that it had conjured up a way to make its bleeding-edge 3D V-NAND flash memory even more data-dense than before. Today, the company announced that mass production of 3-bit ...