SanDisk and Toshiba team up to create 3D SSDs... Toshiba and SanDisk will team up to produce three-dimensional NAND flash chips that will increase solid state drive density and performance. Toshiba said it plans to demolish its Fab 2 plant in Mie prefecture, Japan, and replace it with a new wafer fab facility on the same site where SanDisk will also invest resources to begin creating the 3D NAND The deal is reported to be worth about $4.84 billion. The companies expect production to begin in 2016. The 3D NAND chips are expected to be able to create embedded flash with enough capacity to store 1TB of data, far more than Toshibas current 64GB flash that used in smart phones and tablets.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:30:30 +0000
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