Samsung Electronics today introduced a blueprint for next-generation flash memory solutions that will meet the ever-increasing demands of big data networks, cloud computing and real-time analysis.
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64-Layer is Samsung’s 4th generation of V-NAND. These solutions will accommodate enormous amounts of data, and extremely high-speed information processing, while enhancing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers.
PCWorld reports that this SSD, which was unveiled at the Flash Memory Summit now being held in Santa Clara, California, USA, is the first of its kind to be based on 4th-generation V-NAND technology.
And finally, Samsung is announcing an ultra-high performance and ultra-low latency Z-SSD.
With 48-Layer V-NAND announced previous year (and still rolling out), it’s good to see Samsung pushing hard into higher capacity dies. However, it is the largest capacity SAS SSD based on 512Gb V-NAND chips. Samsung is helping customers address these issues with the introduction of its 4th generation V-NAND. “The company is already planning to use the new V-NAND chips for a 32TB (yes, terabytes) enterprise SSD that sandwiches 32 layers of 1TB storage into a 2.5” SAS drive, which will be available next year. Samsung believes that the evolution of its V-NAND technology will allow for SSD over 100TB by 2020. The company also unveiled 1TB ball grid array (BGA) SSD that weighs only about one gram, making it ideal for ultra-compact laptops and tablets.
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Smaller than a penny, this is a fully functioning SSD with memory, cache and a controller, and will have performance specifications of 1.5GB/s read and 800MB/s write data transfer speeds. It will be released in 2017 and will adopt a high density packaging that will become known as FO-PLP (Fan-out Panel Level Packaging). Samsung’s Z-SSD shares the fundamental structure of V-NAND and has a unique circuit design and controller that can maximize performance, with four times faster latency and 1.6 times better sequential reading than the Samsung PM963 NVMe** SSD.
