The promising cooperation between the storage experts from Western Digital (WD) and Kioxia is apparently bearing fruit. It has now become known that the sixth NAND flash generation has been created in the course of the cooperation. This small revolution not only opens the door for faster SSDs. On top of that, it lowers the manufacturing costs of the fast data carriers.
Lower production costs
Future SSDs from WD and Kioxia will probably rely on the new 162-layer technology. The series is said to go by the name BiCS and is expected to be used on upcoming drives. If you take a look at the number of storage layers, things have really changed. Thus, the previous chips of the BiCS 5 series offered far less with 112 layers. But the new generation not only uses 50 more memory layers. On top of that, the area required by the individual layers is supposed to be smaller. The two companies are talking about 40 percent less surface area. Since WD and Kioxia can thus accommodate more chips, the...
