Intel/Micron Produce 34nm Flash Chip
Category: Storage / Hard DrivesPosted: May 29, 2008 01:45PM
Author: Nemo
Intel and Micron have announced their joint venture is to begin production of a 34nm process 4GB flash chip. This announcement makes the chip the smallest on the market and the venture has leapfrogged the competition by going from a 72nm process to 32nm, completely skipping over the current 52 nanometer process currently used by others. The new chip will be sampled to customers beginning next month. Given the current oversupply in the flash market and the depressed prices, this gives Intel/Micron a chance to maintain healthy margins with production costs coming in around $4/chip. These types of NAND flash memory are used in applications such as cell phones and MP3 players and could lead to higher densities within existing products.
