Intel Now Mass Producing 25nm NAND Flash Memory Chips
Intel Now Mass Producing 25nm NAND Flash Memory Chips
Posted 05/19/2010 at 6:55am
| by Paul Lilly
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Intel this week said it has begun shipping its 25nm NAND flash memory to customers, which represents the world's smallest, most advanced process technology. The new chips were first sampled back in February and will replace Intel's 34nm parts found in the company's second-gen X25-M SSD, as well as a handful of other products.
"The 8 gigabyte (GB) 25nm NAND flash memory chip measures just 167mm2 and can hold up to 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos or 8 hours of video," Intel said. "NAND Flash memory is used in USB memory keys and SD cards for data storage in digital camcorders and cameras, as well as in smart phones, personal music players and solid-state drives."
Capacity won't stop at 8GB, however. You can expect Intel to equip products with multiple 8GB chips for much larger capacity devices. For example, it would take just 32 of Intel's 25nm chips to produce a 256GB SSD, compared to the 64 chips it current takes.
Intel didn't announce any upcoming products, but now that the chips are being mass produced, we suspect it won't be long before manufactures come out with 25nm-based products.
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nHeroGo
May 20, 2010 at 2:35pm
...but are we still measuring the world in song-units? Intel must feel rather insecure if it must create a diversion by describing 8GB in songs. And what kind of crap video camera do they use to record 8 hour of video onto a 2000-song drive? Raw 640x480 AVI from the 90s is 1GB per minute.
Scootiep
May 19, 2010 at 8:07am
HUZZAH! Let the SSD price wars begin!
To start press any key...ohh, where's the "Any" key. - Homer Simpson
HOYT
May 19, 2010 at 7:40am
this is good news.... Not a big ssd fan but I am a fan of Smaller nm Processors... get read for core i9 4.0ghz 8 core...lol would'nt that be nice..
kevaskous
May 19, 2010 at 5:54pm
I have to agree with the post made to yours. SSD's are no mechanical HDD replacement. But when dealing with tons of small files (Below 5MB or so) ANY mechnaical HDD's ability to transfer will go from that snazzy 100+ MB/sec everything thinks is good to like, 5, maybe, more likely 2MB/sec ESPECIALLY with files below 1MB, all the while that SSD will push 10x that or more. And do -NOT- say RAID, that's ignorant, this is not a technology issue, it's a architectural design flaw, RAId'ing them will only make the issue WORSE. If you don't understand that, then you are clearly uninformed.
SSD's are the inevitable way of the future, but it's no the max transfer speeds that matter, it's the small file speeds that make them worth their penny.
nHeroGo
May 20, 2010 at 2:47pm
You see, I'm not sure about this, but I think that the SSD is the turbo fan that is pushing the core at 4 jigga-herz. I don't remember exactly what it is called, but it has a tecnical name an then they just stick an "i" infront of it. I can't describe it; it's too complicated for us mere mortals. And 25nm, or 27.34 nano-yards as we say in America, is the size of the man-juice that gets in there in the core. So, as you see, Intel have lots to do with it. Hope this was educational. Have a good day.
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