3D V-NAND, a new technology for packing more data into flash chips, will dramatically increase the number of PCs and enterprise storage systems that use flash in the next decade, a Samsung Electronics executive said Tuesday.
Over the next 10 years, the new technology will triple the percentage of client devices made with flash and double the percentage of enterprise storage systems that use it, said Jim Elliott, Samsung’s vice president of memory marketing.
The more dense media, made possible by stacking cells on top of each other instead of making them smaller and closer to each other, will increase the market for flash through lower cost per gigabyte for consumer gear and greater endurance for enterprise storage, Elliott said.
Elliott made his prediction at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., as Samsung announced its first SSD (solid-state disks) made with the new technology. The company gave some technical details about 3D V-NAND last week, saying it will boost performance as well as efficiency over current designs.
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