News X-NAND Technology Gets Patented, QLC Flash with SLC Speed

[Admin]

NEO Semiconductor has officially patented the X-NAND technology, giving the company an option to license it to big memory makers.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Cost needs to come down and density increase though in a hurry.

This is the age of 4K120 and 8K30 professional cameras with consumer cell phones able to shoot 4K video along with the removal of the mSD slot (not that most mSD cards are able to keep up with 4K anyway), 128 and even 256GB storage doesn't get you far these days.

 

[cyrusfox]

How is this at all differentiated from what the manufacturers already all do on QLC based SSDs? All of them are already using a SLC cache to speed up the QLC NAND. Intel was the first to do it with the 660P and is on the third iteration with the 670P, Micron does it with the P1, Rocket as well. Is it a magically better implementation? Does it use dedicated SLC chips or the traditional style of every NAND chip is able to run in SLC mode until the drive starts filling up then you get a lower and lower amount of SLC capable cache.

If my memory serves me, a lot of the SSD manufacturers where enabling software cache dram to help speed up as well for those with the spare memory. I wish this company luck but from this announcement I don't see how their solution already beats the first party one, or what value they really offer unless they are also designing cutting edge controllers.