Deep vertical holes and re-entrant features challenge the best metrology methods.

Samsung has announced a new type of V-NAND, with three bits per cell and 48 layers per chip. The company wants to make terabyte-class SSDs much more popular than they currently are, in both data ...

Samsung researchers have published a detailed account of an experimental NAND architecture that aims to cut one of the ...

Today’s planar NAND technology will hit the wall at 10nm, prompting the need for the next big thing in flash memory—3D NAND. In fact, 3D NAND may extend NAND flash memory for the next several years ...

To solidify its leading position in the NAND flash market, Samsung Electronics reportedly plans to again utilize a double-stack technology for manufacturing 3D NAND over 300 layers, aiming to surpass ...

Micron announced on Tuesday that it has created 3D NAND memory technology that’s optimized for mobile devices. For consumers, this will mean that a smartphone or tablet could rely on a larger battery ...

The part 1 of this two-article series outlined the NAND flash technology and how it transitioned from 2D to 3D NAND flash. The article also explained the current challenges in the way of density ...

Traditional 2D NAND-based flash memory has been a workhorse of our digital storage economy, but its architecture has reached its physical limits, so suppliers are moving on to the next generation: 3D ...

Just days after the company wrapped up its developer forum in San Francisco, Intel unleashed a new set of solid state drives (SSDs) based on 3D NAND Tri-Level Cell (TLC) flash storage. Not to be ...

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Micron announced its first 3D NAND chip for mobile devices with the goal of cramming more storage into handsets, and maybe reducing reliance on SD card slots. 3D NAND provides more capacity in the ...

Samsung has started making flash storage chips that it claims will be twice as fast and up to 10 times more durable than the current flash storage used in mobile devices. The so-called V-NAND flash ...