SanDisk and Toshiba Make World's Smallest NAND
Ready for tiny SSDs?
SanDisk and Toshiba have teamed up together to make a 64 Gb, 2-bits-per-cell (X2) based monolithic chip made on 19nm technology, which the companies claim is the smallest and most advanced memory process technology node in the world.
SanDisk will sample its 19nm 64 Gb X2 device this quarter and expects to begin high-volume production in the second half of 2011. At that time, SanDisk will also add 3-bits-per-cell (X3) products fabricated with the 19nm process technology to its product lineup.
"We are excited to introduce the world's smallest and lowest-cost NAND flash chips based on industry-leading 19nm process technology in our ongoing collaboration with our manufacturing partner Toshiba," said Yoram Cedar, executive vice president and chief technology officer, SanDisk. "Products based on this technology are designed to enable new applications, form factors and consumer experience that will continue to drive the flash industry to new heights."
This announcement come days after Intel and Micron announced its 20nm process.
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Better question is, why are worried if there making 19nm transistors or not?
It not like "we've always had the ability to measure the transistors size until last year" type of things. For a very very very long time we always had to trust the mouth of the manufacture of the specs when it comes to the transistor sizes. Thats like asking same thing for intel and amd cpu's. How do we surely know that the core i7 2600k has 32nm transistors or amd Phenom ii's have 45nm in it?
Well unless you have an electron microscope, you cant.
Don't worry - if the numbers wre really off someone would bark loudly...
The same way you make sure how Intel's processors are based on 32nm tech. or AMD's graphics cards are based on 40nm tech.
Any anomalies will reach front page news fairly quickly as there will be lots of angry share holders, CEO's, and FBI guys creeping around the bushes.
This means higher capacity and lower priced SSD drives will be coming soon!
I think this new chip technology combined with the new sandforce controller would make for some cheap yet fast SSD drives!
Can't wait! Especially since I plan on buying a slightly used, slightly older laptop soon.
yes as someone already said, there are plenty of people willing to find out for a fact what the transistor size is, and if its not what the companies advertise then they are certainly in a world of crap. Major false advertising.
I am looking for a Droid phone with $32 of 32gb chips in it for memory because it should have 128gb of flash memory on it or 4 x 64gb flash chips in it for 256gb of internal memory.
I remember when my Corsair X128 cost me $550, now you can buy the same sized SSD even faster than what I have for $220 and it's only been 2 years since I got my SSD.
Prices are coming down as fast as hard drive prices we're, soon we might see some decent storage sizes at fantastic speeds.