Toshiba's new flash chips could lead to much higher capacity SSDs

Toshiba's new flash chips could lead to much higher capacity SSDs

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https://www.pcgamer.com/toshibas-new-flash-chips-could-lead-to-much-higher-capacity-ssds/

There are some interesting things happening in the solid state drive space as of late. A little over a week ago, Samsung said it had begun mass producing its fifth generation 256Gb V-NAND flash memory that could lead to faster SSDs. Now just over a week later, Toshiba is touting a type of flash memory that could significantly increase capacities, too.

Specifically, Toshiba announced the development of a prototype sample of 96-layer BiCS flash, the company's proprietary version of 3D NAND, with 4-bit-per-cell (quad-level cell, or QLC) technology.