Samsung is now stacking V-NAND 64 layers high
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Samsung is dropping the mic at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara. The company has taken a page from Gillette's handbook (in a good way) and announced an upgrade to its V-NAND (Vertical NAND) technology. The company is now stacking flash memory 64 layers high, another density increase over the 48-layer V-NAND we just tested in Samsung's Portable SSD T3.
The new V-NAND chips serve up 512Gb (64GB) of storage per die, and a single die can now move data at 100 MB/s. Samsung expects to offer products based on the new technology in the fourth quarter of 2016, and believes ...