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An 8GB 25nm NAND flash chips measure just 167mm˛, making it possible to squeeze even more memory into components all across the board – from USB drives and SD cards to smartphones and SSDs. For instance, a 256GB SSD can now be produced with only 32 of Intel's 25nm chips, compared to 64 previously. We'd expect that to lower prices a bit, but Intel hasn't released any figures.
With mass production underway, electronics with the new memory should hit store shelves before the year is up, if not shortly thereafter.
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Eddie_42 said:
Thats pretty intense. Amazing how far tech has come in just a few years. I was so excited to buy a 1GB thumb drive when they were new, i even coughed up $50+ for it. Now you can have 8GB on a drive smaller then a finger nail.
Much like I laugh at my parents for thinking 8MB was a lot of computer power, Im sure my kid will laugh at me for being excited for a 8gb drive.
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25nm is getting pretty tiny apparantly they can only go so small so eventually the memory gain for the size of the chip will one day slow down.
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25 nm is getting very close to the limit. 25nm is roughly 250 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom, that sounds like a fair bit of room left, but we dont use hydrogen for memory chips do we
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