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SK hynix Develops World’s Highest 238-Layer 4D NAND Flash

SK hynix Inc, announced today that it has developed the industry’s highest 238-layer NAND Flash product. The company has recently shipped samples of the 238-layer 512Gb triple level cell (TLC)1 4D NAND product to customers with a plan to start mass production in the first half of 2023.

SK hynix Develops World’s Highest 238-Layer 4D NAND Flash
  • World’s first 238-layer 512Gb TLC 4D NAND developed in July; expected to begin mass production in the first half of 2023
  • Providing highest, smallest NAND product while remarkably improving productivity, data transfer speed and power efficiency
  • “Will continue innovations to find breakthroughs in technological challenges”

“The latest achievement follows development of the 176-layer NAND product in December 2020,” “It is notable that the latest 238-layer product is most layered and smallest in area at the same time,” the company stated.

The company unveiled development of the latest product at the Flash Memory Summit 20222 in Santa Clara. “SK hynix secured global top-tier competitiveness in perspective of cost, performance and quality by introducing the 238-layer product based on its 4D NAND technologies,” “We will continue innovations to find breakthroughs in technological challenges,” said Jungdal Choi, Head of NAND Development at SK hynix in his keynote speech during the event.

Since development of the 96-layer NAND product in 2018, SK hynix has introduced a series of 4D products that outperform existing 3D products. The company has applied charge trap flash3 and peri under cell4 technologies to make chips with 4D structures. 4D products have a smaller cell area per unit compared with 3D, leading to higher production efficiency.

The product, while achieving highest layers of 238, is the smallest NAND in size, meaning its overall productivity has increased by 34% compared with the 176-layer NAND, as more chips with higher density per unit area can be produced from each wafer.

The data-transfer speed of the 238-layer product is 2.4Gb per second, a 50% increase from the previous generation. The volume of the energy consumed for data reading has decreased by 21%, an achievement that also meets the company’s ESG commitment.

The 238-layer products will be first adopted for client SSDs which are used as PC storage devices, before being provided for smartphones and high-capacity SSDs for servers later. The company will also introduce 238-layer products in 1 Terabit (Tb) next year, with density doubled compared to the current 512Gb product.


SK hynix Develops World’s Highest 238-Layer 4D NAND Flash

1. Triple Level Cell (TLC): NAND Flash products are categorized into Single Level Cell, Multi Level Cell, Triple Level Cell, Quadruple Level Cell and Penta Level Cell depending on the number of information (unit: bit) contained in a single cell. That a cell contains more information means more data can be stored within the same extent of area.

2. Flash Memory Summit (FMS): The world’s biggest conference for NAND Flash industry taking place in Santa Clara every year. During its keynote speech at the event SK hynix made a joint announcement with Solidigm.


SK hynix Develops World’s Highest 238-Layer 4D NAND Flash

3. Charge Trap Flash (CTF): Unlike floating gate, which stores electric charges in conductors, CTF stores electric charges in insulators, which eliminates interference between cells, improving read and write performance while reducing cell area per unit compared to floating gate technology.

4. Peri. Under Cell (PUC): A technology that maximizes production efficiency by placing peripheral circuits under the cell array.

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