The areal density is between 35% and 100% greater than competing TLC products in the market today. The compact form factor of 232-layer NAND offers customers flexibility in their designs while enabling the highest TLC density per square millimeter ever produced (at 14.6 Gb/mm²). The interface is also backward compatible to support legacy controllers and systems. As a result, 232-layer NAND solutions offer ideal support for mobile applications and deployments in the data center and at the intelligent edge that must balance improved performance with low power consumption. Micron's 232-layer NAND is the first in production to enable NV-LPDDR4, a low-voltage interface that delivers per-bit transfer savings of more than 30% compared to prior I/O interfaces. This structure ensures fewer collisions between write and read commands and drives system-level quality-of-service improvements. The combination of high I/O speed, read and write latency, and Micron's six-plane architecture provides best-in-class data transfers in many configurations. It has the most planes per die of any TLC flash and features independent read capability in each plane. In addition, 232-layer NAND introduces the world's first six-plane TLC production NAND. These per-die benefits translate to performance and energy efficiency gains in SSDs and embedded NAND solutions. Micron 232-layer NAND also delivers up to 100% higher write bandwidth and more than 75% higher read bandwidth per die than the prior generation. That speed represents a 50% faster data transfer than the fastest interface enabled on Micron's 176-layer node. This technology node enables the introduction of the industry's fastest NAND I/O speed - 2.4 gigabytes per second (GB/s) - to meet the low-latency and high-throughput needs of data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, unstructured databases and real-time analytics, and cloud computing. Micron's 232-layer NAND technology provides the high-performance storage necessary to support advanced solutions and real-time services required in data center and automotive applications, as well as responsive, immersive experiences on mobile devices, consumer electronics and PCs. 'This groundbreaking technology required extensive innovation, including advanced process capabilities to create high aspect ratio structures, novel materials advancements and leading-edge design enhancements that build on our market-leading 176-layer NAND technology.'Īs the world generates more data, customers must expand their storage capacity and performance while reducing energy consumption and meeting more stringent environmental sustainability requirements. 'Micron's 232-layer NAND is a watershed moment for storage innovation as first proof of the capability to scale 3D NAND to more than 200 layers in production,' said Scott DeBoer, executive vice president of technology and products at Micron.

Micron announced that it has begun volume production of the world's first 232-layer NAND, built with industry-leading innovations to drive unprecedented performance for storage solutions.

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