New 20nm NAND process will lead to higher capacity tablets and SSDs

Intel and Micron has announced a finer 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory, which is likely to lead to higher capacity plug-in flash drives, solid state devices and tablets early next year. The new 20nm process produces an 8-gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash device. The result will be higher capacity in a smaller space and for around the same price as today’s technology.