Deep vertical holes and re-entrant features challenge the best metrology methods.

Traditional planar NAND flash has had a long and illustrious run, but its time is over. Multiple manufacturers have announced they have no plans to pursue 2D NAND below the 15nm process node. Share on ...

Samsung researchers have published a detailed account of an experimental NAND architecture that aims to cut one of the ...

Multiple innovations in semiconductor processing are needed to enable 3D NAND bit density increases of about 30% per year at ever-decreasing cost per bit, all of which will be required to meet the ...

Vertical scaling is vital to increasing the storage density of 3D NAND. According to imec, airgap integration and charge trap layer separation are the keys to unlocking it. Inside the charge trap cell ...

NAND flash technology is on a roll with advancements in cell structure and the subsequent boost in storage density. That allows this non-volatile-memory (NVM) chip to deliver faster throughput and ...

Samsung has announced the mass production of the first 3D NAND chips -- and with them, the beginning of a manufacturing initiative that will push solid-state cost-per-GB ever closer to magnetic ...

The NAND market is likely to be significantly under supplied in FY 2017. IM's NAND cost superiority will offer Micron much better gross margins at the year advances. Micron's aggressive move to ...

SK hynix is showing off a sample of its 321-layer 1-terabit (Tb) triple-level cell (TLC) "4D" NAND chips, which is notable because it's the first time a chip maker has stacked over 300 layers of NAND ...

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) has quietly started to ship its 5th-Gen 3D NAND memory with 294 layers in total as well as 232 active layers, and analysts from TechInsights have managed to ...

In brief: Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia has announced it will unveil a trio of pioneering memory technologies at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco this December.

Flash memory maker SanDisk may have caught a break, as Samsung has supposedly pushed out its 3D NAND ramp after reports that it cut specialty equipment orders. SanDisk's timeline doesn't include 3D ...