SanDisk Develops World’s Smallest 128Gb NAND Chip

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SanDisk as developed a 128 Gb NAND Flash memory chip using 19-nm processing technology.

SanDisk Develops World’s Smallest 128Gb NAND Chip : Read more

 

[AznCracker]

How much will this cost?

 

[southernshark]

Holy Cow... 128gbs... on that?

Awesome.

 

[kyuuketsuki]

128GB SD cards and 64GB micro-SD cards? Yes please. 'Course, I'm sure this stuff will be expensive for the near future...

Actually, I already see a 64GB Sandisk micro-SD card on Newegg... for $130. It's out-of-stock, though.

 

[A Bad Day]

I seriously thought it was 128 GB, and after looking at the article closely, it's Gb. 128 Gb is 16 GB.

Unless if it was a misprint. Or if I'm going insane.

 

[demonicrotato]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]I seriously thought it was 128 GB, and after looking at the article closely, it's Gb. 128 Gb is 16 GB.Unless if it was a misprint. Or if I'm going insane.[/citation]

As far as I know you are not going insane. The article that is linked specifically says gigabit rather than gigabyte.

 

[Just a nickname]

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/sandisk-19nm-128gb-flash-memory-chip-is-worlds-smallest-20120222/

Look how small it is!
I think the picture induce us in error. I don't think this is going to be used in SSD. More likely going to be used for microsd/sdhc

 

[alidan]

i dont know if this posted, so this may be a triple, sorry if thats the case. this time i'm removing all the math i did. this is the last post, if it doesn't show up this time, ill write it off as i for a sanction and just haven't been told yet.

i just did the math,

so with that math, and its rough math, i have estimated the cost per gb to be .93 cents

now if only i could get this on ssd quality memory, would love to find out how much we are being screwed if we are at all.

 

[compton]

As long as they don't try to put this crap in SSDs, I'm all for it.

 

[aidynphoenix]

its too slow for ssd.

 

[jrharbort]

[citation][nom]aidynphoenix[/nom]its too slow for ssd.[/citation]
SSDs tend to use multiple flash ICs in multi-channel to boost the speed. And each flash IC can contain 4 or even more of these chips. If you do the math, that can still come out to around 570MB/s theoretical speeds with just 8 ICs.

 

[shriganesh]

NAND chip capacity are mentioned in gigabits just like RAM/VRAM. Chips like these will be packaged with controller to get a SSD or pendrive. Since it's a 3-bit NAND, write speeds will be slow and write amplification will go through the roof. IMO these chips will be only used in pen drives and memory cards.

 

[razor512]

Must be a unreliable chip for them to not mention how much data can be written to it before killing it.

 

[__-_-_-__]

128gb micro SD wow

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]128gb micro SD wow[/citation]

16GB.

 

[NapoleonDK]

Okay, what exactly am I missing here? I have a 16GB MicroSD card in my Droid X. When I take it out, the thick part of the chip (which houses the actual silicon) looks smaller than this chips stated size of 170mm2 (or roughly 13 x 13 mm, or one half-inch square). I'm sorry, but 16GB stored in a half-inch? Don't we already have this?

And if it IS for SSD, then why haven't they been using existing MicroSD technology to populate multi-channel SSD lanes already? SOMEBODY EXPLAIN WHICH PART OF THIS IS NEW AND EXCITING!!!

 

[jaber2]

According to article they started shipping last year, however due to the rotation of Earth we just now got the news.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]southernshark[/nom]Holy Cow... 128gbs... on that? Awesome.[/citation]
?? 128 Gbit/chip. 18 MByte/sec. Either you misread it, or 18 MB/s equals 128 gbit/sec, or I missed a conversion factor having to do with the number of chips used in an SSD.