NAND
The solid state storage industry has been in a well-documented slide for the better part of the last year now. With storage product demand from both the client and datacenter businesses down well off of its highs in a notoriously cyclical business, we've already seen the big three memory manufacturers – SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron – significantly cut back on NAND production. And now the repercussions of this downturn are starting to spread to the SSD makers themselves, with Solidigm confirming that they have laid off employees due to the industry downturn. Responding to an information request from AnandTech, Solidigm, Intel's former SSD business unit that is now controlled by SK hynix, confirmed that the company has recently engaged in layoffs. Terming it a...
Samsung Teases 256 TB SSD: 3D QLC NAND at Its Best
Samsung teased the industry's first 256 TB solid-state drive at the Flash Memory Summit 2023. The new drive features unprecedented storage density and is aimed primarily at hyper-scale data...
27 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2023
Samsung Becomes Latest Memory Fab to Cut Production Amidst Post-Pandemic Slump
Following an ongoing slump in demand that has impacted the entire memory industry over the last several months, Samsung this week has become the latest memory foundry to announce...
11 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2023
SK hynix Announces 238 Layer NAND - Mass Production To Start In H1'2023
As the 2022 Flash Memory Summit continues, SK hynix is the latest vendor to announce their next generation of NAND flash memory at the show. Showcasing for the first...
9 by Ryan Smith on 8/4/2022
Micron’s 232 Layer NAND Now Shipping: 1Tbit, 6-Plane Dies With 50% More I/O Bandwidth
Ahead of next week’s Flash Memory Summit, Micron this morning is announcing that their next-generation 232 layer NAND has begun shipping. The sixth generation of Micron’s 3D NAND technology...
18 by Ryan Smith on 7/26/2022
CES 2022: OWC Expands Atlas Series with CFexpress Offerings
OWC is introducing a number of CFexpress products as part of their 2022 CES announcements today. The new Atlas Pro and Atlas Pro Ultra CFexpress cards join the Atlas...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/4/2022
Intel Sells SSD Business to SK hynix as new Subsidiary Solidigm
In a brief news release from Intel this afternoon, the chip firm has announced that it has closed on the first stage of its deal to sell its SSD...
21 by Ryan Smith on 12/29/2021
Startup Showcases 7 bits-per-cell Flash Storage with 10 Year Retention
One of the key drivers to increase capacity in next generation storage has been to increase the number of bits that can be stored per cell. The easy jump...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/15/2021
Next Gen NVMe SD Card Review: The SM2708 Controller Serves it Hot and Fast
Flash-based removable media has a host of use cases in products ranging from content capture devices to portable game consoles. Behind the standards of these is the SD Association...
43 by Ganesh T S on 9/9/2021
Western Digital Reimagines HDD - Flash Integration with OptiNAND
The last few years have seen plenty of new innovations come up in the hard-disk drive market. For quite some time, the HDD technology roadmap was shared industry-wide -...
51 by Ganesh T S on 8/31/2021
Intel’s DPG Launch Event April 6th: Early Look at 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake)
Today Intel has announced that it will be holding a launch event on April 6th for the new vision of its Data Platform Group. This event is set to...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/19/2021
SK Hynix to Buy Intel’s NAND Memory Business For $9 Billion
In a joint press release issued early this morning, SK Hynix and Intel have announced that Intel will be selling the entirety of its NAND memory business to SK...
66 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2020
Kioxia: 3D Stacked Storage Class Memory, like 3D XPoint, Isn’t the Future
One of the key battlegrounds of the next decade is going to be storage: density, speed, and demand. Naturally all the major players in the space want to promote...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2019
Micron’s Fab 10 Expansion Completed: 96-Layer 3D NAND Production Starts in 2019
Micron this week hosted a grand opening ceremony of its Fab 10 Expansion in Singapore. The new cleanroom is not expected to increase the company’s production capacity in terms...
21 by Anton Shilov on 8/16/2019
Western Digital: Nearly All NAND Capacities Resumed Normal Operations
Western Digital and its manufacturing partner Toshiba Memory Co. (TMC) had managed to resume normal operation of almost all of their joint production lines at their Yokkaichi Operations campus...
31 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2019
Toshiba Memory To Rebrand As Kioxia
In 2017, Toshiba was forced to sell off its flash memory business to stave off bankruptcy. The memory business was spun off as Toshiba Memory Corporation and sold for...
17 by Billy Tallis on 7/18/2019
Supply of DRAM, NAND & Displays Could Be Disrupted by Japan & South Korea Dispute
South Korean companies produce 70% of the world’s DRAM, about a half of 3D NAND, and a significant share of OLED and LCD displays on the planet. Meanwhile, Japanese...
39 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2019
Toshiba & WD NAND Production Hit By Power Outage: 6 Exabytes Lost
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital on Friday disclosed that an unexpected power outage in the Yokkaichi province in Japan on June 15 affected the manufacturing facilities that are jointly...
150 by Anton Shilov on 6/28/2019
Toshiba Memory & Western Digital Finalize Fab K1 Investment Agreement
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital on Friday announced that they had finalized a formal agreement regarding a joint investment in the K1 manufacturing facility near Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan...
1 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2019
Toshiba Begins to Sample UFS 3.0 Drives: 96L 3D TLC NAND, Up to 2.9 GB/s
Toshiba said late on Tuesday that it had started to sample its first UFS 3.0 storage solution. The device is aimed at mobile applications and promises to offer performance...
0 by Anton Shilov on 1/23/2019
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