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Average cost of a 128GB SSD is now $50 for PC makers
Samsung's 850EVO SSD uses
triple-level cell (TLC) NAND. TLC memory reduces the cost to produce
SSDs, one of the reasons flash drives have dropped dramatically in
price.
Credit:
Samsung
SSDs have crept up on hard drives in notebooks and claim 30% of that market
The average price that computer manufacturers pay for a 128GB
solid-state drive (SSD) dropped to $50 in the second quarter, while the
average price of a 256GB SSD plunged to almost $90, according to research from DRAMeXchange.
Those
prices are significant drops when compared to pricing in the first
quarter of 2014, when a 128GB SSD had an average price of $77.20, and a
256GB SSD sold for $148. The decline has been steady, quarter after
quarter, since then, according to DRAMeXchange data.
Of course,
that's not what you or I would pay. The average retail price that
consumers pay for a 128GB SSD is $91.55, and for an SSD in the 240GB to
256GB range, the price is about $165.34, DRAMeXchange's data showed. Toshiba
The largest producer of NAND flash, Toshiba, announced this year the
development of the first 48-layer, three-dimensional flash memory. The
densest NAND to date. Still, that's significantly less than what you
would have paid two years ago or even a year ago, according to Jim
Handy, principal analyst at Objective Analysis.
"Flash prices have
been in a slow decline for the past year. They have come down about 25%
since last June. Flash accounts for around 80% of the cost of the
average drive, but remember that it's a higher share of higher-capacity
SSDs, and a lower share of low-capacity SSDs," Handy said in an email
reply to Computerworld.
The price for client-SSDs used by computer manufacturers has dropped steadily over the past year. There are two components to SSD pricing, the
flash memory cost and then the other components, such as the controller
or integrated circuit that manages the read and write commands from the
computer.
Other than increased SSD adoption, which spurs
production and results in economies of scale and lower costs, there has
been a conversion over the past few years from flash that stores two
bits per transistor to products that store three bits. The more dense
NAND flash memory is, the less it costs to produce SSDs with the same or
more capacity.
The conversion from two-bit or multi-level cell (MLC) flash to triple-level cell (TLC) flash has dropped costs about 20% over the past year, Handy said.
"Controller prices seem to be falling at something closer to Moore's Law, or about 30%," Handy said.
Shrinking NAND size leads to lower cost
The
latest research from DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, indicates
prices for internal SSDs are declining at an accelerated pace as the
production of NAND flash also migrates to the 15 and 16 nanometer
manufacturing processes. Previously, the width of transistors were in
the 19-plus nanometer range: More density, lower production costs.
Flash
manufacturers have also been stacking NAND flash transistors vertically
-- so-called 3D NAND flash -- which further adds to its density and
lowers production costs.
In the third quarter), the ratio of
3D-NAND flash products in shipments will start to increase and the
market penetration of notebook SSDs will speed up. According to
DRAMeXchange's projection, notebook SSDs' market penetration will be
more than 30% for 2015 and will surpass 50% by 2017, taking over from
hard drives that currently dominate the notebook sector.
"The
[system manufacturer] market for client-SSDs has experienced a rapid
price decline due to the increasing adoption of SSDs based on triple
level cell (TLC) technology," said DRAMeXchange's assistant vice
president Sean Yang. "Among the OEMs, Samsung Electronics Co. especially
has been aggressively promoting TLC-based SSDs since their memory chips
and controller chips are developed in house." Toshiba
Toshiba calls its news 3D flash architecture BiCS (Bit Cost Scaling).
The new flash memory stores two bits of data per transistor, meaning
it's a multi-level cell (MLC) flash chip. It can store 128Gbits (16GB)
per chip. This diagram illustrates how Toshiba and SanDisk's BiCS 3D
NAND technology is structured. Starting in 2014, the rising price-performance
ratios of Samsung's TLC products have led to a rapid expansion of their
share in the system manufacturer market for PCs.
Additionally, SSDs that incorporate both 3D NAND and TLC technologies
have completed the client verification process in the first half of
2015 and are set to begin mass production and shipments in the second
quarter.
Shipments of TLC products will grow faster in the second half of 2015 when Intel Corp. introduces its latest processor platform, Skylake.
Hence, other SSD vendors will be in a hurry to develop their TLC-based
SSD products, and this in turn will drive the transition of NAND flash
production to the 15nm and 16nm processing technologies.
DRAMeXchange
expects TLC-based SSDs using NAND flash from suppliers besides Samsung
will be sent to PC manufacturers for testing in the third and fourth
quarter.
A push for faster interfaces
Intel is also becoming more active in ensuring its processors support different SSD architectures via different interfaces.
Another
bit of good news for users is that chip manufacturers are ramping up
production of higher speed interfaces based on the PCIe serial bus
standard. According to DRAMeXchange, PCIe SSDs are steadily making
inroads in the market that is dominated by interfaces belonging to the
mature SATA 3.0 technology.
Both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air
laptop models adopted PCIe in 2014, encouraging other PC-manufacturers
to design products with the same interface and urging NAND flash
suppliers to develop SSDs that match the application.
The market
penetration of PCIe interfaces is expected to reach around 20% over the
next year, based on DRAMeXchange's projection.
With Skylake and
subsequent Intel processor platforms supporting SSDs with PCIe
interfaces, SSD controller chip vendors will roll out more related,
price-competitive integrated circuits. The SSD market therefore will see
a noticeable increase in the share of products with PCIe interfaces
next year.
A depiction of what an NRAM chip would look like.
Credit:
Nantero
NRAM has an almost infinite number of write cycles, and is thousands of times faster than flash
A new type of non-volatile memory known as Nano-RAM (NRAM) -- it's based
on carbon nanotube and sports DRAM speed -- is now being produced in
seven fabrication plants in various parts of the world.
According to Nantero, the company that invented NRAM, it also has more
than a dozen corporate customers lined up to begin experimenting with
the memory once it begins rolling off production lines.
"So those fabs have been and are indeed producing large numbers of
wafers and chips," said Greg Schmergel, CEO of Nantero. "They are sample
chips/test chips in preparation for mass production, which requires the
product designs to be completed."
Schmergel said it will likely take a couple more years before NRAM drives begin rolling off production lines.
Nantero
The geometric construct of a carbon nanotube.
"This is one of very few technologies that's moved beyond the research
lab into high-volume manufacturing CMOS facilities," Greg Wong,
principal analyst at Forward Insights, said in a statement. "NRAM's
unique combination of high speed and high endurance has the potential to
enable innovative products in a host of consumer and enterprise
applications."
NRAM has the potential to create memory that is vastly more dense that
NAND flash, which is used to make thumb drives and solid-state drives
today. The densest NAND flash process today is near 15 nanometers. NRAM
can reach densities of below 5 nanometers, according to Schmergel.
NRAM is up against an abundant field of new memory technologies that are
expected to challenge NAND flash in speed, endurance and capacity,
according to Jim Handy, principal analyst with semiconductor research
firm Objective Analysis.
For example, Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) has shipped in high volume, IBM has developed Racetrack Memory, Intel, IBM and Numonyx have all produced Phase-Change Memory (PCM), Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) has been under development since the 1990s, Hewlett-Packard and Hynix have been developing ReRAM also called Memristor, and Infineon Technologies has been developing Conductive-Bridging RAM (CBRAM).
"It’s really very difficult to project which horse will win the race to
become the replacement for NAND flash and DRAM in 2023 or so when we
anticipate that change, this juncture is so far off," Handy said.
Over the past two years, Nantero has been able to reduce NRAM production
costs 10-fold, making it compatible with complementary
metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS), the standard used for making
microprocessors and DRAM.
One big advantage NRAM has over traditional NAND flash is its resistance
to heat. It can withstand up to 300 degrees Celsius. Nantero claims its
memory can last thousands of years at 85 degrees Celcius and has been
tested at 300 degrees Celsius for 10 years. Not one bit of data was
lost.
Nantero
An illustration of the NRAM cell (left) and photos taken of the carbon nanotube fabric with an electronmicroscop (right).
Anpther advantage is that NRAM is being built using the DDR4
specification interface, so it could sport up to 3.2 billion data
transfers per second or 2,400 Mbps -- more than twice as fast as NAND
flash. Natively, however, the NRAM's read/write capability is thousands
of times faster than NAND flash, Schmergel said; the bottleneck is the
computer BUS interface.
"Nanotube switch [states] in picoseconds -- going off to on and on to
off," Schmergal said. A picosecond is one trillionth of a second.
Nantero
Carbon nanotubes are strong -- very strong. In fact, they're 50 times
stronger than steel, and they're only 1/50,000th the size a human hair.
Because of carbon nanotubes' strength, NRAM has far greater write
endurance compared to NAND flash.
The best NAND flash, with error correction code, can withstand about
100,000 erase-write cycles. According to Nantero, NRAM can withstand 1012 write cycles and 1015 read cycles -- an almost infinite number.
"Heat and vibration also will not cause errors," Schmergel said.
How NRAM works
Carbon nanotubes are grown from catalyst particles -- most commonly iron.
NRAM is made up of an interlocking fabric matrix of carbon nanotubes
that can either be touching or slightly separated. Each NRAM "cell" or
transistor is made up the network of the carbon nanotubes that exist
between two metal electrodes. The memory acts the same way as other
resistive non-volatile RAM technologies.
Carbon nanotubes that are not in contact with each other are in the high
resistance state that represents the "off" or "0" state. When the
carbon nanotube contact each other, they take on the low-resistance
state of "on" or "1."
Nantero
An illustration showing the two states of NRAM, where one carbon
nanotube is either touching another, creaing a low reisistance or "on"
state; the other, where the tubes are not touching, creating a high
resistance or "off" state.
Over the past few months, Nantero has hired more than a dozen chip
design engineers who are working to create high density circuits,
including three dimensional or stacked designs for increased capacity.
"If you're taking a gum stick, then your talking about many gigabytes of capacity -- terabytes in the future," Schmergel said.
Nantero doesn't plan on producing its own NRAM drives, which will
initially be marketed for purposes similar to solid-state drive (SSD)
gum sticks or internal memory boards. But it will license its
intellectual property to companies to develop their own product.
Nantero's engineers are still in the process of creating chip designs
for the memory wafers.
Because of its resilience to heat, vibration and pressure, Nantero's
carbon nanotube memory has caught the eye of aerospace giant Lockheed
Martin and Schlumberger Ltd., the world's largest gas and oil
exploration and drilling company; both companies are customers of
Nantero.
Nantero declined to name its other customers.
"Clearly a company like [Schlumberger] would have need of memory that
could perform in environments with very high heat down in an oil well,"
Schmerge said.
Founded in 2001, Nantero has to date generated $78.1 million in five
rounds of funding, including a series E round for $31.5 million that it
just closed. The company also announced that the former vice president
of Intel's Flash Memory Group, Stefan Lai, has joined the company as a
technical advisor. Lai co-invented the EPROM (erasable programmable read
only memory) flash memory cell and led the Intel's phase change memory
(PCM) development team.
"Nantero's NRAM has unique attributes that make it the most promising
candidate to be the almost ideal memory: the nonvolatility of Flash, and
the speed and functionality of DRAM with lower cost," Lai said.
Nantaro also announced that Yaw Wen Hu, a former executive vice
president at Inotera Memories, has also come on board as a technical
advisor. Inotera, a Taiwan-based partner of Micron, supplies nearly 10%
of the world's 300mm DRAM silicon wafers at its two fabrication
facilities.
"The availability of memory technology that is extremely fast, can
deliver terabits of storage capacity in the future and consumes very
little power, has the potential to change the future of electronics,"
said Alan, Niebel, CEO of Webfeet Research. "After researching NRAM for
over twelve years, WebFeet applauds Nantero for reducing the costs of
the CNTs in an NRAM chip by 10x in the last two years, making NRAM CMOS
compatible and finally proving NRAM viability with commercial production
capability from its licensees."
6 amazing things you didn’t know about your computer By Odubanjo Bolarinwa
It’s a ritual across the globe: somewhere between sticking the kettle on
and complaining about last night’s match, you’ll probably hit the button on
your ageing company PC and wait while it slowly thinks about turning on.
Rather than take it for granted,... more »
Apple seeing huge demand for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models
Both carriers and Apple reported tremendous demand
for iPhone 6 preorders over the weekend with new orders expected to take
weeks to fill.
Image: MacRumors
On
Friday, Apple -- plus its carrier and retail partners -- began
accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The orders were record
breaking for several companies.
Apple issued a press release,
claiming 4 million pre-orders in the first 24 hours of availability,
breaking the previously announced record of 2 million pre-orders for the
iPhone 5 two years ago.
AT&T said it was that company's
biggest pre-order ever, without releasing specifics. By all accounts,
the iPhone 6 will be very, very popular.
If you didn't get your
iPhone 6 pre-order in on Friday, bad news: you could be waiting a while.
Apple's own online store is quoting 3-4 week ship times for all iPhone 6
and 6 Plus models across most countries. Verizon and AT&T are
quoting similarly delayed shipping times, with the iPhone 6 Plus pushed
to mid-November in some cases. SEE: CNET's review of the iPhone 6 Plus
UBS
analyst Steven Milunovich believes Apple could sell as many as 100
million iPhones in the second half of calendar 2014, reflecting 18% unit
growth over last year's 85 million iPhones sold.
For consumers
looking to pick up an iPhone 6 sooner, their best bet is to head to an
Apple Retail or carrier store on Friday morning. It's likely that Apple
Retail Stores will see long lines, perhaps running overnight at larger
locations, and it's unknown what stock levels will be like -- however,
Apple is almost certain to sell out of initial iPhone 6 stocks at some
point on Friday.
Other stores, like Best Buy and Walmart, may have stocks as well, with Walmart looking to push sales thanks to modest $20 discounts on purchases.
Apple,
for its part, is shipping millions of iPhones from its partner assembly
facilities in China to the United States and the other 8 launch
countries of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan,
Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Images shared by a MacRumors reader
who is also a pilot for a cargo shipping company show 195,000 iPhones
packed onto pallets. He claims the phones were flown from China to
Anchorage, Alaska, and then on to Chicago's O'Hare airport, consistent
with shipments from prior iPhone launches.
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