Micron has just announced a breakthrough in 3D NAND density, announcing that it has started shipments of the world's first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory. This is Micron's 5 th generation 3D NAND ...

Deep vertical holes and re-entrant features challenge the best metrology methods.

Micron Technology recently unveiled 176-layer, triple-level-cell (TLC), 3D NAND flash memory with a 30% smaller die size that employs a new replacement-gate (RG) NAND technology. The chips offer a 35% ...

Micron's new fifth-generation 176-layer 3D NAND flash is the same height as its 64-layer memory, but packs in 2.75 times more layers in the same space--a space that's 30% smaller than today's leading ...

Samsung Electronics is keenly exploring "hafnia ferroelectrics" as a next-generation NAND flash material, with the hope that this new material will enable stacking over 1,000 layers of 3D NAND and ...

3D NAND vendors face several challenges to scale their devices to the next level, but one manufacturing technology stands out as much more difficult at each turn—metrology. Metrology, the art of ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first ...

Macronix is releasing details of a new 3D NAND structure, called single-gate vertical channel (SGVC). The outfit will present a paper on the new tech at the 2017 IEEE International Electron Devices ...

Check out more coverage of the 2022 Flash Memory Summit. Memory chip giants are upping the ante on each other with new generations of 3D NAND flash. 3D NAND chips resemble skyscrapers in which floors ...

Why it matters: Western Digital dropped a bombshell during a recent investor presentation. The storage giant has teased the world's first 2Tb 3D quad-level cell NAND flash memory die. The chip dwarfs ...

In 2014, 3D NAND flash was introduced to the industry with 24 layers, and it co-existed with 2D NAND flash until 2017. 3D NAND flash gradually came to dominate the market with its high-density storage ...