{"id":149483,"date":"2022-11-05T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/micron-is-first-to-deliver-3d-flash-chips-with-more-than-200-layers"},"modified":"2022-11-05T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:32:33","slug":"micron-is-first-to-deliver-3d-flash-chips-with-more-than-200-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/micron-is-first-to-deliver-3d-flash-chips-with-more-than-200-layers","title":{"rendered":"Micron Is First to Deliver 3D Flash Chips with More than 200 Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micron-is-first-to-deliver-3d-flash-chips-with-more-than-200-layers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><\/sup>Boise, Idaho-based memory manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Micron Technology<\/a> says it has reached volume production of a 232-layer NAND flash-memory chip. It\u2019s the first such chip to pass the 200-layer mark, and it\u2019s been a tight race. Competitors are currently providing 176-layer technology, and some already <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/editorial-extraordinary-innovation-for-a-more-unforgettable-world-the-story-behind-samsungs-pioneering-v-nand-memory-solution\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">have working chips<\/a> with 200+ layers <a href=\"https:\/\/news.skhynix.com\/sk-hynix-develops-worlds-highest-238-layer-4d-nand-flash\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">in hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Micron tech as much as doubles the density of bits stored per unit area versus competing chips, packing in 14.6 gigabits per square millimeter. Its 1-terabit chips are bundled into 2-terabyte packages, each of which is barely more than a centimeter on a side and can store about two weeks worth of 4K video.<\/p>\n<p>With 81 trillion gigabytes (81 zettabytes) of data generated in 2021 and International Data Corp. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">IDC<\/a>) predicting 221 ZB in 2026, \u201cstorage has to innovate to keep up,\u201d says Alvaro Toledo, Micron\u2019s vice president of data-center storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boise, Idaho-based memory manufacturer Micron Technology says it has reached volume production of a 232-layer NAND flash-memory chip. It\u2019s the first such chip to pass the 200-layer mark, and it\u2019s been a tight race. Competitors are currently providing 176-layer technology, and some already have working chips with 200+ layers in hand. The new Micron tech [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}