The U.S. administration says that the Chinese government allowed U.S. export control inspections of People’s Republic’s high-tech companies that were placed on its Unverified List in October, according to a report from the Financial Times. This move seems designed to ensure that Chinese 3D NAND company YMTC does not get placed on the Department of Commerce’s “Entity…
Four leading makers of chip production equipment have ceased sales of new tools and provide support services of installed tools to China-based Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) due to new export rules that came into effect on Wednesday. To sell new equipment to YMTC and support existing machinery, the toolmakers must get a technology export…
Samsung Electronics has revealed its roadmap for its SSD ecosystem at the 2022 Samsung Tech Day and it looks tasty. It has plans to “stack over 1,000 layers” in its most advanced NAND chip by 2030 although it has stopped short of revealing whether it would be actual products available on shelves (if these are…
Adding another 3D NAND maker to its supply chain is certainly something that is good for Apple, but U.S. legislators are not particularly happy that one of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies will use memory from YMTC and thereby essentially help China’s semiconductor industry to develop. Apple argues that it plans to use chips…
SK hynix has developed new 4D NAND flash with a huge 238 layers, paving the way for rapid and capacious new SSDs, the company has announced. Unveiled on stage at Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, the new memory chip is described as the “world’s first 238-layer 512Gb TLC 4D NAND” and is expected to…
Manufacturers of NAND flash memory have always tried to increase the storage density of their memory devices by increasing the number of bits stored per cell. While fundamentally, this is the most challenging way of increasing recording densities, it is also the most rewarding one from a cost standpoint. Companies like Kioxia are constantly experimenting…
Micron has introduced two new inexpensive M.2-2280 SSD families aimed at budget PCs. But while Micron’s Crucial P3 Plus and P3 SSDs are meant to be reasonably priced, they still promise capacities of up to 4TB and rather serious sequential read performance of up to 5,000 MB/s. Micron’s Crucial P3 drives feature a PCIe 3.0…
Micron has revealed it has developed 3D NAND flash with a whopping 232 layers, which will enter full-scale production later this year. Described by Micron as ‘the world’s most advanced NAND’, the storage device is formed by splicing together two 3D NAND chips, making for a capacity of 128GB (1Tb). The company has not yet…
Micron on Thursday announced the industry’s first 3D NAND memory device featuring 232 layers. The company plans to use its new 232-layer 3D NAND products for a variety of products, including solid-state drives and plans to start ramping up production of such chips sometimes in late 2022. Micron’s 232-layer 3D NAND device features a 3D…
Western Digital this week gave a sneak peek at its BiCS 3D NAND roadmap for the next few years. As expected, the company and its partner Kioxia will continue to introduce new generations of its BiCS memory increasing per-device capacity and lowering per-bit costs. Furthermore, the company is developing its BiCS+ 3D NAND that will…
