Micron announces mass production of ninth-generation NAND flash memory technology products

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July 31, 2024, Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) today announced that it has begun shipping SSD products using the ninth generation (G9) TLC NAND technology, becoming one of the first manufacturers in the industry to achieve this milestone. Micron's G9 NAND technology has a data transfer rate of up to 3.6 GB/s, providing excellent data read and write bandwidth. This new NAND technology brings excellent performance to artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-intensive application scenarios, suitable for personal devices, edge servers, enterprises and cloud data centers. ¹

Executive Vice President of Technology and Products at Micron

Scott DeBoer said:

" The volume production of Micron's G9 NAND technology demonstrates Micron's strength in process technology and design innovation. Micron's G9 NAND technology has market-leading density, enabling more compact and efficient storage solutions, bringing significant benefits to consumers and enterprises. "

Leading technology creates excellent performance

Micron’s G9 NAND technology meets the high throughput demands of data-intensive workloads with superior NAND input/output (I/O) rates, delivering data transfer rates 50 percent faster than current NAND technology in SSDs.2 At the same time, Micron’s G9 NAND delivers ⁹⁹ percent higher write bandwidth and 88 percent higher read bandwidth per chip, respectively, compared to similar NAND solutions currently on the market.3 ^Together , these benefits improve the performance and energy efficiency of SSD and embedded NAND solutions.

Like previous-generation NAND products, Micron’s G9 NAND is available in a compact 11.5mm x 13.5mm package, which saves 28% space over competing products, making it an exceptionally small-footprint, high-density NAND.4 ^Achieving higher density in a smaller size maximizes design options for a wide range of use cases.

Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, Micron

Sumit Sadana said:

" Micron has led the industry with innovative, leading-edge NAND technology for three consecutive generations. Products integrating Micron's G9 NAND will have significant performance advantages, and this technology will become the foundation for storage innovation and bring value to customers in all end markets."

Micron 2650 SSD delivers exceptional performance with G9 NAND technology

The Micron 2650 NVMe SSD integrates advanced G9 TLC NAND technology and performs well in PCMark ^® 10 tests, providing a first-class user experience in daily computing ^.

Vice President and General Manager of Micron's Client Storage Business Unit

Prasad Alluri said:

“ The Micron 2650 SSD uses our new G9 NAND technology, which has a theoretical performance level close to PCIe 4.0, breaking the performance limit of cost-effective TLC client SSDs. With excellent PCMark 10 benchmark scores, it will redefine the user experience of this type of SSD.”

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Jeff Janukowicz, Vice President, said:

“Advances in artificial intelligence are increasing the amount of data generated, driving the need for storage, and customers need better performance to keep up with AI. SSDs like the Micron 2650 SSD, which incorporate the latest generation of innovative NAND technology, will be essential for a wide range of users, from businesses to individual consumers. ”

The Micron 2650 NVMe SSD offers industry-leading reliability, and its dynamic SLC caching feature significantly improves performance and accelerates write rates. The Micron 2650 NVMe SSD offers theoretical performance comparable to PCIe 4.0, with sequential read rates of up to 7,000 MB/s. Compared to similar competitive products, the Micron 2650 NVMe SSD performs well, with up to 70% improvement in sequential read performance, up to 103% improvement in sequential write performance, up to 156% improvement in random read performance, and up to 85% improvement in random write performance.6 ^These impressive data highlights Micron’s unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology to bring customers superior performance.

Micron's G9 NAND is not only used in Micron's 2650 SSDs for client OEMs, but also in client components and Crucial's SSD consumer products.

¹ Competitors are client value SSDs currently in production by the top suppliers with at least 10% market revenue share in the enterprise SSD market as of May 2024, excluding gaming consoles, as mentioned in Forward Insights' Q1 SSD Supplier Landscape Report.

² “On the market” refers to NAND products that have achieved mass production (more than 10,000 units per month) and are publicly sold and promoted in existing SSD products.

^3Bandwidth comparison is conducted on different competing products in the market.

⁴ “High density” refers to 1Tb 3D TLC NAND.

⁵ SSD Comparative Analysis Based on Forward Insights’ Q1 SSD Supplier Landscape Report, current SSD products in production by the top five suppliers in the client cost-effective SSD market by revenue (excluding gaming consoles) as of May 2024. 1TB SSD testing conducted in Micron labs.

^6Performance comparison based on publicly available data information at the time of product release, compared with competing PCIe 4.0 SSD products (see footnote 4).