Micron develops high speed NAND that is 5x faster than conventional SLC NAND
In what could be a significant development, Micron today announced that it has developed a new generation of NAND — high speed SLC NAND — which is capable of transferring data 5 times faster than conventional SLC NAND. Micron is the first company to sample an 8 gigabit (Gb) single-level cell (SLC) high speed NAND product that enables data to be transferred in a fraction of the time compared to conventional NAND. The company said that in future you’ll be able to transfer data between devices such as computers, digital cameras, MP3 players and cell phones at a much faster rate.
SLC high speed NAND can read data at speeds up to 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and can write data at speeds up to 100 MB/s, achieved by leveraging the new ONFI 2.0 specification and a four plane architecture with higher clock speeds. In comparison, conventional SLC NAND is limited to 40 MB/s for reading data and less than 20 MB/s for writing data.
