Intel-Micron Flash Technologies Ships 25nm NAND Flash: Bigger USB Keys,
SSDs Coming
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - by Ray Willington
Process technologies continue to shrink at an alarming rate. It wasn't
long ago that 65nm seemed tiny, and now Intel is shipping out NAND Flash
based around 25nm. In short, shrinking the production size enables
manufacturers to squeeze more memory, power, etc. onto an existing form
factor. In other words, CPU sockets and DIMM slots won't change sizes very
often, so the goal is to simply put more onto the modules we have.
IM Flash Technologies, which is a joint venture between Intel and Micron
that is targeted for producing NAND flash memory, announced in late
January that they were working hard to develop 25 nanometer Flash memory.
It was neat, but easy to brush off, since nothing new was actually
shipping to consumers. Companies make these wild breakthrough claims all
the time, but this one's different. Just a few months after the debut,
Intel has now declared that same 25 nanometer memory ready for shipment,
meaning that it's ready to make an impact in the market. Larger capacity
memory products, here we come.
Starting this week, Intel-Micron Flash Technologes are in mass production
of the 25 nanometer NAND Flash, and volume shipments have commenced. That
makes IMFT the first to "sample, and now to ship in production, 25nm NAND
using the world's smallest, most advanced manufacturing process
technology." The 8GB 25 nanometer memory chip measures just 167mm2 and can
hold up to 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos or 8 hours of video, and it should be
showing up in USB keys, SD cards, Flash drives in camcorders and even SSDs
soon.
On Sat, 22 May 2010 09:29:13 -0500, Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote:
There hasn't been another die shrink from IMFT (Intel/Micron Flash
Technologies) yet. They dropped prices around 60% last year when moving
from
50nm to 34nm, and the move down to 25nm will not occur until later this
year. It will also require an updated controller.
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Subject: Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?
Anand doesn't expect the price to drop significantly this year. Even
with
the
recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they haven't passed
along
the savings to consumers yet. Next year we can expect the prices to
finally
start to fall more and within 5 years the mechanical hardrive will be on
it's
way out. Seagate is coming out with a 3 Gig drive this year..
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