Micron Technology, a leading semiconductor company, has announced the shipment of its latest NAND technology, the Micron G9 NAND. This new NAND technology is a testament to Micron’s expertise in process technology and design innovations, as stated by Scott DeBoer, executive vice president of Technology and Products at Micron.
The Micron G9 NAND is designed to offer significant advantages over existing NAND technologies in the market. It boasts a density that is up to 73% higher, allowing for more compact and efficient storage solutions. This density translates to performance and energy efficiency gains in SSDs and embedded NAND solutions.
One of the key features of the Micron G9 NAND is its ability to leverage the industry’s fastest NAND I/O speed to meet the high-throughput needs of data-centric workloads. It delivers 50% faster data transfer than any NAND currently shipping in an SSD, and offers up to 99% higher write bandwidth and 88% better read bandwidth per die than competitive NAND solutions.
The Micron G9 NAND is also compact, fitting in a 11.5mm x 13.5mm package, using 28% less space than competing products. This makes it the smallest high-density NAND available, offering greater design flexibility for a diverse range of use cases.
Micron’s latest SSD, the Micron 2650 NVMe SSD, integrates the cutting-edge G9 TLC NAND. According to Prasad Alluri, Micron’s vice president and general manager of Client Storage, the Micron 2650 SSD uses the new G9 NAND to push the boundaries of what a value TLC client SSD can achieve. It delivers up to 38% higher PCMark 10 benchmark scores than competitive solutions, setting a new standard for the user experience in this class of SSD.
The Micron 2650 NVMe SSD also offers class-leading reliability and features performance-enhancing accelerated caching for faster write performance. It provides real-world saturation performance for PCIe Gen4, with up to 7,000 MB/s sequential read. When compared to the competition, it delivers best-in-class performance with impressive figures for sequential read, sequential write, random read, and random write.
The Micron 2650 NVMe SSD is available for client OEMs, and the G9 NAND is also in qualification with customers in component form and in a consumer-based Crucial SSD. For more information about the Micron G9 NAND and the Micron 2650 client SSD, visit the respective websites.
