Toshiba (TYO: 6502) has announced the roll out of its very first 15nm NAND flash memory chip. The chips are already available for sampling starting this October, with the first 16GB version chips to be shipped first and the rest of the other size versions to follow shortly.

This new NAND flash memory chip utilizes both the flash memory chip and its controller in a single board. Toshiba claims that this optimization technique promises an overall increase in its data transfer speed (8% read, 2% write), as well as making the chips around 26% smaller compared to its predecessors. Its updated interface also boasts a significant increase in speed, thanks to its improved peripheral power circuit tech. The design clearly markets it into the mobile device realm, where it can be perfectly suitable to most smartphones, tablets and even notebook PCs today.

At 15nm, the new flash memory chips currently have the smallest class chip size in the world. The memory chips will be available in 8GB/32GB/64GB/128GB sizes, and are to be divided into two main categories, the high-end Supreme line, and the middle to low-end Premium line ups. Each chip will roughly have an average size dimension of 11.5 x10-13 x1.4 mm, and are also slated to be eMMC Version 5.0 compliant.

Production of the new flash memory chips already started earlier this year, with most of Toshiba’s 19-nm manufacturing and fabrication facilities converting into the current size factor. Even before then however, the Japanese tech giant had already revealed its plans in the mobile tech market by announcing its development of updated controllers for smartphones and tablets.

As for the new 15nm chips’ commercial availability, Toshiba states that it would be around as early as January to March of 2015, with the 8GB and 128GB models to follow later around April to June within the same year.

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Samsung has revealed the next generation of its revolutionary 3D NAND flash memory technology.

Samsung, in a keynote presentation at the Flash Memory Summit 2014, launched its newest V-NAND 3-bit/Cell flash memory technology. This was not long after the South Korean tech giant unveiled its new 850 Pro SSDs last month, which feature the second generation V-NAND 2-bit/Cell flash memory technology.

V-NAND is currently touted by Samsung as the next step after NAND flash, as it features what is known as 3D NAND cell structuring. The technology exceeds the perceived limitations of planar NAND flash by stacking multiple memory cells on top of one another. The very first V-NAND 2-bit/Cell chip, which was revealed about a year earlier, featured 24 stacks of memory cells. The new cell configuration exponentially boosted its overall processing capabilities, surpassing the performance of memory flash chips using the same planar area.

The introduction of the new V-NAND 3-bit/Cell flash memory chip opens the technology to its third generation level. While it uses the same 32-stack memory cell structure that the recent second generation 850 Pro has, it goes a few levels higher by using a 3-bit/Cell design.  This means that every layer within the stack would be at least 3-bit ‘thick’ for each cell. The new configuration would technically have an average spec equivalent of a 48-stack configuration that uses a 2-bit/Cell design.

As far as raw performance goes, this means that the new V-NAND 3-bit/Cell chips are even more error read resistant than other previous V-NAND chips. Save for its current manufacturing issues, the drastically increased memory density of 3-bit V-NAND chips would also make it possible to lower the cost of SSDs further while increasing maximum storage capacities.

Samsung looks into developing 3D NAND technology further as the chips increase its memory density by adding more layers. The company is even confident that it would be capable of the designing 100-stack V-NAND memory chips in the next couple of years.

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