By the end of this year, 64-layer V-NAND chips are expected to cover more than 50 percent of Samsung’s monthly NAND flash production. This move will not only help the company meet the growing needs of servers, PCs, and mobiles, but also fend off other V-NAND suppliers such as Toshiba and SK Hynix. Samsung claims that its latest NAND boasts a 30 percent increase in data transfer speed and energy efficiency compared to its 48-layered predecessor.



Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun volume production of 64-layer, 256Gb V-NAND flash memory for use with an expanding line-up of storage solutions for server, PC and mobile applications. Since Samsung began producing the industry’s first SSD based on 64-layer 256Gb V-NAND chips in January for key IT customers, it has been working on a wide range of new V-NAND-based mobile and consumer storage solutions. These include embedded UFS memory, branded SSDs and external memory cards, which the company plans to introduce later this year.

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