Micron Technologies commences delivery its most sophisticated storage chip

A common see of Micron Technology’s making in Singapore, June 23, 2020. Micron GCM Studio – Pictures/Handout by using REUTERS

July 26 (Reuters) – Micron Know-how Inc (MU.O) on Tuesday reported it started out delivery its most superior NAND flash chip built up of 232 layers of memory cells that can help powerful facts use from purchaser devices, cars and trucks and info facilities.

A NAND flash chip is a storage chip that retains knowledge even when a unit is turned off, compared with a DRAM chip which loses information when the power is off.

The most up-to-date chip transfers details 50% a lot quicker than Micron’s previous technology NAND chips, stated Alvaro Toledo, standard manager of the details center storage division.

Whilst logic chips have turn out to be a lot quicker with lesser transistor dimensions, in the earlier ten years storage chips have been escalating the variety of layers right after hitting problems obtaining the advancements and charge financial savings needed just from shrinking the transistor dimension.

Toledo claimed 16 of these 232-layer NAND chips can be packaged jointly in a casing about a third of the dimension of a stamp and can maintain 2 TeraBytes of knowledge.

Mass output of the 232-layer NAND is expected to start out in late 2022, he claimed.

Reporting by Jane Lanhee Lee Editing by Leslie Adler

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