3D NAND flash memory: making HDDs obsolete in a data-centric economy

An article written by Scott Thornton for Microcontrollertips – A data-centric economy is evolving. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 debuted with 8 GB RAM and one terabyte (TB) of storage (purchasing a 512 GB SD card bumps it to 1 TB). The price tag is well over $1,000, so the rest of us will have to buy 1 TB of cloud storage from Google for $10/month to unload the 700 feature films or 500,000 photos that we collect in everyday life. (Note that 1 TB is 1,000 GB and that these are estimates).

Google Play Store was launched in 2008. By March of 2018, the Google Play Store offered 2.8 million apps. NAND flash memory hit a wall with planar NAND storage a while back.

In a recent newsletter, Yole Développement stated, “In the last two years, the DRAM and NAND memory business hit record-high revenues. The industry announced an impressive 32% CAGR between 2016 and 2018, with revenue growing from US$ 77 billion to an estimated US$ 177 billion.”

The hardware drivers of DRAM and NAND flash memory are servers, graphics cards, and mobile devices. Much of the technology driving the surge in memory is the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, personal computers (which are switching from mechanical to solid-state drives), and mobile and other cloud-connected devices. Samsung is the largest provider of memory in the world if you look at the numbers that Yole Développement discloses… Full article

Source: www.microcontrollertips.com