News - Intel, Micron announce first 128GB 20nm Flash NAND

[HEXUS]

Mass production of 64GB NAND device in process and 128GB NAND set for 2012.

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[shaithis]

Wow...128GB on something as small as your finger-nail....that means that each 2.5" drive should be able to pack some amazing storage space....

Now, if only they managed to get cost of manufacturing down by an order of magnitude......

[crossy]

Wow...128GB on something as small as your finger-nail....that means that each 2.5" drive should be able to pack some amazing storage space.... Now, if only they managed to get cost of manufacturing down by an order of magnitude......

+1 for this - although I'd gladly trade that TB+ 2.5" drive for an affordably priced 500GB one - after all that's only 8 of those "lesser" 64GB modules (minus the usual allocation for bad cells etc).

Good side point though shaithis - if they can get storage that small, then is 2.5" necessarily a good format - perhaps time for something even smaller!?

[shaithis]

Or....LARGER!

How many of those could you cram into a 3.5" drive?

[Funkstar]

I just went to read the Intel press release (which I had to source from a well known tech blog owned by AOL as there wasn't a direct link from the Hexus article) to clarify if this is a 128GB part or a 128Gb part.

...the new 20nm monolithic 128Gb device is the first in the industry to enable a terabit (Tb) of data storage in a fingertip-size package by using just eight die.

So it would seam that the announcement is for a 128Gb part, but the chip in the picture is actually eight of these new dies in one package, making the picture a 128GB part.

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/...64gb-20nm-nand

It's a rather confusing press release. To make it clear they should have a picture of a single die, and then the full package with eight dies balanced on the finger, not just one pic with a finger and one without.

[crossy]

(Good side point though shaithis - if they can get storage that small, then is 2.5" necessarily a good format - perhaps time for something even smaller!?) Or....LARGER! How many of those could you cram into a 3.5" drive?

... more than I could afford!

Actually, again that's a very good point, how come that 2.5" seems to have become the standard SSD form factor? Yes, I know that means that you can sell the one part for desktops and laptops - but surely if you have a 3.5" box to fill then you could use lower density - cheaper! - modules. I admit that there's probably a physics based reason why more modules = slower response, but my woefully limited knowledge doesn't give it.

[jiaopi333]

Thanks for your post and have a nice day