Source : TGdailyIntel and Micron have announced a new generation of NAND chips that are 5 times faster due to a new interface.
These chips are available in 2 and 4 GB and are capable of writing data at 100 MB/s and of reading it at 200 GB/s compared to 20 and 40 GB/s for NAND currently.
Of course, one can already imagines what this would do for SSD disks; equipped with this memory, probably data flow in the neighbourhood of the 500 MB/s would be possible. This boost in speed is obtained by simultaneously reading and writing several chips.
However there remains the problem of the low density of the SLC NAND chips and their price that still stops large scale production.But if this technology could be used to boost the speed of MLC NAND chips, then there would be SSD disks able to make big inroads into the traditional hard disk market.
The mass production of these products will start in Q2.
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