SK Hynix says has developed its most advanced 238-layer storage chip
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc has developed its most superior NAND flash chip made up of 238 layers of reminiscence cells to be used in PC storage units and later smartphones and servers, the world’s second-largest reminiscence chip maker stated on Wednesday.
SK Hynix described it because the “trade’s highest” NAND flash chip and it follows U.S. rival Micron Expertise Inc saying final week it had begun delivery a 232-layer NAND chip.
SK Hynix stated the brand new 238-layer chip is the smallest NAND flash chip in measurement, boasts a 50% enchancment in knowledge switch pace over earlier era chips and energy effectivity as effectively, because it cuts the quantity of vitality consumed for knowledge studying by 21%.
The corporate plans to begin mass manufacturing of the chip within the first half of 2023.
SK Hynix and Solidigm, the brand new identify of Intel’s NAND enterprise which SK acquired, maintain a mixed 18% share of the NAND flash market, behind Samsung Electronics with 35.3% and Kioxia with 18.9%, in accordance with first-quarter knowledge from TrendForce.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; enhancing by Jason Neely)
