Big Capacity—Big Performance
Shrinking size shouldn’t mean shrinking performance. Take, for instance, our new ultra-small, ultra-fast 16Gb/32Gb MLC and 8Gb/16Gb SLC NAND devices. These parts are built on our award-winning 34nm process technology—the smallest production NAND node in the world—and use the high-bandwidth ONFI 2.1 interface. Pairing big capacity with big performance makes our NAND Flash a compelling solution for demanding storage applications.
Tiny Footprint: 16Gb of storage on a die that’s 84mm
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Our tradition of innovation and partnership has enabled unprecedented advancements in our NAND Flash product line. For example, our work with the ONFI standard is driving a high-speed interface to enable the NAND throughput necessary for new applications. All of our future MLC and high density SLC NAND Flash devices will be built on this high-speed interface, which currently enables read and write speeds of up to 200 MB/s—five times faster than the 40 MB/s cap of NAND’s standard asynchronous interface. And because the ONFI interface has headroom for even higher speeds, it paves the way for ever-better and ever-faster solid state solutions.
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Performance for Next-Generation Solid State Storage
We helped develop the high-speed NAND interface to provide new levels of performance for almost every storage application, knowing that speed will be especially critical for high bandwidth applications like USB 3.0 and next-generation SATA. Our new NAND parts leverage this interface to deliver speeds up to 166 MB/s. View the charts below to see how the ONFI 2.1 synchronous interface allows us to smash the 40 MB/s throughput bottleneck of standard NAND.
We’ve also leveraged our advanced architecture to shrink our 32Gb NAND die by 17% compared to the previous generation, and we optimized the design to enable reliable multi-die stacks. These two design features make this part a great foundation for ultra-dense, small form factor 32GB packages.
Tiny, But Big on Capacity
Big things do come in small packages, and we’re proving it with our ultra-tiny (84mm2) 16Gb MLC NAND device. It’s in mass production now and enables up to 16GB microSD cards—doubling the previous limit of 8GB and pushing the density sweet spot to 4GB.
Lexar Media is leveraging the 16Gb part for their 16GB microSDHC™ memory card. To put it in perspective, 16GB is enough storage for 4,000 MP3s or 80 hours of standard definition video. That’s a lot of storage in a tiny space, enabling bigger and better options for mobile phones, MP3 players, and PDAs.