Micron starts volume production of its 9th Gen NAND tech

Micron start mass producing its fastest NAND to date

Micron has announced that they have started shipping their 9th Gen (G9) 3D NAND in SSDs, and that this new memory type has entered volume production. With this new NAND, Micron claims to have achieve the “industry’s highest transfer speed”. With speeds of 3.6GB/s, Micron’s new NAND is said to deliver “unsurpassed bandwidth for reading and writing data”.

When compared to “currently shipping NAND in an SSD”, Micron claims be delivering “50% faster data transfer” speeds. Furthermore, they claim to deliver “up to 99% higher write bandwidth and 88% better read bandwidth per die than currently available competitive NAND solutions”. Those are some major claims, and a clear sign that Micron wants to be seen as the leader of their high-end NAND market.

Micron’s new G9 NAND is now available as part of the company’s new 2650 series SSDs. When compared with other PCIe 4.0 SSDs, Micron claims to deliver much higher PCMARK 10 benchmark scores than its competitors. This is thanks to Micron’s faster NAND, which is enabling a faster computing experience.

Now that their 9th gen NAND is in volume production, other SSD manufacturers will soon be able to utilise this new Micron NAND. This will enable the creation of faster storage devices and PC. It is only a matter of time before this NAND is used in a high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD.

Micron’s NAND technology is getting faster. As a result of that, PCs will get faster and users will have access to more responsive systems. That’s good news for consumers, especially as Micron’s competitors aim to dethrone their new 9th generation NAND. Things are getting exciting for the NAND market, and that is good news for PC enthusiasts.

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