Samsung Electronics focuses to expand the use of its seventh generation V- NAND chip solutions, a senior executive stated on Tuesday, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to support its technology prowess in the memory
sector. In other half of the year, the world's leading memory chip maker will introduce a new consumer solid state drive (SSD) product that is based on its seventh generation V-NAND chip that boasts the smallest cell size yet in the industry, according to head of Samsung’s flash memory product, Song Jai-hyuk.
Samsung is also planning to expand the use of its 7th generation V-NAND to data centre SSDs Samsung the first chipmaker to commercialize such a memory solution, having unveiled its first 3D V-NAND in 2013, Yonhap news agency report.
A NAND flash is a non-volatile memory that stores data even without power. In the NAND industry, more memory cell layers in a chip mean better capacity with improved bit density, but as the height of product gets taller, Song mentioned company came up with solutions to reduce the cell volume. Song also stated Samsung already has secured working chip of its eighth generation V-NAND solution featuring over 200 layers and plans to launch the
product after analyzing the market situations and customer demand.
Samsung, the world’s largest NAND flash vendor with a 33.5 percent revenue share in first quarter, according to TrendForce.