Intel company (of course, within the alliance with Micron) intends to step up its development in order to release the next generation memory - QLC NAND.
As you know, now on the market there are three main types of flash memory NAND - SLC, MLC and TLC. Samsung also in the last year launched a 3D V-NAND, which, although different in design, architectural works on the same principles. QLC (aka) is a logical development of the NAND cell and it can have 16 levels of charge, in other words, keep the 4-bit data.
In principle, this news is consistent with long been wandering rumors about the existence of even working samples of solid state drives, the problem is only a low level of the resource with fine process technology (and the use of older production methods does not make sense ).
Its distinctive feature - the ability on a single chip of 256 Gb of data (MLC) to 384 Gbps (TLC).
Supply of prototypes MLC NAND with density of 256 Gbit chip made using the 50-nm process technology, has already begun. Related Products :
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