From technewsworld Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Latest News about Intel and Micron Technology have developed a high-speed NAND flash memory technology the two said is five times faster than conventional NAND. The technology, jointly developed by the two companies as part of their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, will allow data to be transferred faster for computing, video, photography and other applications, the technology partners said Friday. "At up to five times the performance over conventional NAND, the high speed NAND from Intel and Micron, based on the ONFi 2.0 industry standard, will enable new embedded solutions and removable solutions that take advantage of high-performance system interfaces, including PCIe (PCI Express) and upcoming standards such as USB 3.0," said Pete Hazen, director of marketing for Intel NAND Products Group. Flash Speedway The new 8 GB single-level cell (SLC) high-speed NAND can read data at speeds as great as 200 MB per second and can write data at up to half that speed, 100 MB per second. Designed on the 50-nanometer process node, the new technology was achieved using new Open NAND Flash Interface (OFNI) 2.0 specifications as well as a four plane architecture with higher clock speeds, according to Micron. Conventional SLC NAND offers significantly lower read and write speeds: 40 MB per second for reading data and less than 20 MB per second for writing data. "As more and more of today's popular consumer electronic and computing devices continue to move to silicon for storage, it is essential that we improve how data is accessed and transferred in NAND," said Bill Lauer, senior director of marketing for Micron's memory group. "With the new capabilities designed into high speed NAND, the performance benefits will be visible to the consumer, allowing them to experience a faster way of transferring digital content between devices such as computers, digital cameras, MP3 players and cell phones." Micron is sampling the high-speed NAND component with major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and controller manufacturers. It hopes to see mass production in the second half of this year. "This is a necessary evolutionary change in an effort to have greater appeal to demand drivers which need better performance," Joseph Unsworth, a Gartner (NYSE: IT) Latest News about Gartner analyst, told TechNewsWorld. "Since NAND is a commodity, this is also a means to provide a differentiating strategy by providing greater value, through performance, in order to gain a premium and better margins."
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