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Intel and Micron Take the 50nm Road

You just go straight ahead for 3 miles, and then turn left

By Dan Frincu, Hardware Editor

26th of April 2007, 07:57 GMT

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Flash memory products are part of many of today's applications, and Intel Corporation and Micron Technology have announced they are sampling 50 nanometer Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND

flash products.

One of Intel's many collaborations within the computer industry is closely related to NAND flash memory products, from which they already have expanded towards the SSD business and also have a joint venture with Micron Technology, called IM Flash Technologies. Their MLC-based products have already been a part of many devices you might use, and not even know of, such as pendrives, Secure Digital cards, MMC, a.s.o. By entering the 50nm manufacturing process with the MLC NAND flash memories, they have been able to expand the capacity of these memories to 16Gb (gigabit) die density.

Mark Durcan, Micron Technologies' Chief Operating Officer said: "In only one year, Micron and Intel have developed the industry's leading NAND flash memory MLC product and aggressively ramped a factory network that is delivering today for our customers. We're proud of the accomplishments we're achieving with Intel, and we look forward to more milestones in the next year."

The 300mm state-of-the-art flash manufacturing factory allowed them to produce these MLCs, as well as the Single Level Cell (SLC), which have a maximum capacity at this process node of 4Gb die density. Even though the companies have just begun sampling products manufactured on the 50nm process node, they are already planning ahead, towards producing memories on the 40nm NAND flash memory and even on manufacturing processes smaller than 40nm.

Randy Wilhelm, Intel vice president and general manager, NAND Products Group said: "The progress of our joint venture with Micron to develop industry-leading architecture has surpassed our expectations during this first year. Intel and Micron were the first in the industry to introduce 50nm SLC NAND samples last July, and developing the industry's most advanced 50nm MLC architecture is a further proof point to the strength of this development and manufacturing relationship."

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Intel Corporation | Micron Technologies | IM Flash Technologies | MLC | SLC

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