New 25Nm Flash NAND Capable Of 8GB Storage

Santa Clara, California-headquartered Intel Corporation and Boise, Idaho-headquartered Micron Technology Inc have jointly developed a new NAND technology which crunches up to 8GB of storage in a single NAND device.

The new technology is expected to make more storage to the new generation mobile consumer devices such as smartphones, personal music and media players (PMP). The new technology also will prove useful as a supplement to the high-performance solid-state drives (SSD).

The entire process works in the 25nm range, making it the world’s smallest NAND technology that has been developed by the two companies. The device measures just 167 square mm which is roughly equal to the central hole found in the CD. Yet, the device has the capacity to store more than 10 times the capacity of a standard CD.

Intel and Micron have together spun off a new joint venture called IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) just for this purpose. Founded in 2006, IMFT’s first mandate was to produce NAND devices using a 50nm process, which was scaled to 34nm in 2008. The latest in line, the 25nm process, makes IMFT a world leader in the industry of semiconductor lithography.

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