NAND flash feels instant, but it isn’t — and that gap is where the stutters come from. Modern devices feel fast. Phones boot quickly. Files copy in seconds. Apps install while you’re barely paying attention. So it’s easy to assume that the memory underneath it all is operating at nanosecond speeds. Here’s the quiet truth: […]
3D NAND was developed in response to the scaling limitations of 2D NAND memory. The layers in 3D NAND were flipped from horizontal to vertical orientation and strings of them were built to form a tower. By changing the direction of how the cells are configured created opportunity to increase storage capacity, reduce size of […]
3 bit-per-cell NAND is sampled out the manufacturers. The 3 bit per cell is exactly that, 3 bits of information are stored in each NAND cell. This increased the capacity while keeping the foot print the same size. This ultimately leads to larger storage capacity at a cheaper price. Traditionally, SLC [Single Layer Cell] and […]
DRAMeXchange published a market research paper stating that NAND flash memory will continue to flood the market at lower prices. NAND flash memory is primarily used for storing songs, photos and other data on gadget type devices like digital cameras, MP3 players and iPods. The biggest contributing factor on why the market will continue to […]
While forecasting strong sales and profitability in 2008, Silicon Motion projects that demand for low-density NAND flash will beat that for the high-density segment, driven by demand for microSD cards and embedded memory, said company president and CEO Wallace Kou. Silicon Motion guides that annual sales will grow by 25-35% on year with gross margins […]
Toshiba might be on to something with their development of a new three dimensional memory cell array structure that enhances cell density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology. All this with minimal increase in chip size. The new structure design reflects pillars of stacked memory elements passing vertically through multi-stacked layers […]
Trump Tariff Hurts USB Flash Drive Market Yes, there is a tariff on USB flash drives coming from China. Two tariffs have been assigned to the USB flash drive category when importing product from China since 2020: February of 2020 — a 7.5% tariff was enacted by Trump January of 2025 — a 10.0% tariff […]
Micron has introduced two new tech products: a tiny flash storage device for phones and a big memory chip for Nvidia GPUs. Micron, which makes and sells SSDs, created a flash chip that’s super small but packs a punch. It’s like a supercharged version of the standard UFS 4.0 device, only about the size of […]
KV-CSD is an acronym for Key Value Store Computational Storage Device and Hynix a NAND memory manufacturer is directing their technology towards this storage approach. Here at GetUSB.info we focus on NAND memory and typically look at the write speeds of devices. However, for data centers and analytic companies, the ability to retrieve data is […]
Micron announced the industry’s first 3D NAND memory device with 232 layers on Thursday. The company intends to use its new 232-layer 3D NAND products for a variety of applications, including solid-state drives, and expects to begin mass production of such chips in late 2022. Micron’s 232-layer 3D NAND device has a raw capacity of […]
