Digitimes: Some NAND flash chip suppliers plan to scale down their production in order to prevent related chip prices from dropping further in the first quarter of 2014, according to sources at memory module makers. The NAND flash market is currently oversupplied with the situation being worse than suppliers expected, causing chip prices to fall, the sources indicated. Prices for NAND flash devices have been cut irrationally since late November, the sources observed.
Earlier this month, news broke that China's biggest chipmaker has come up with a 128-layer QLC NAND chip that is better than Samsung's sixth generation, 136-layer V-NAND in terms of capacity, speed, and power efficiency.
The Crucial P1 SSD isn't quite the first at anything, but it is still a very novel product. It is the second consumer SSD on the market to use four bit per cell (QLC) NAND flash memory, after the Intel SSD 660p. It's the second QLC SSD from Micron, after their 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD that started shipping to select partners in May (and is now starting to be more widely available).
Intel’s upcoming 660P SSD has been spotted on multiple computer hardware retailers from Europe. The interesting thing about this is its appealing price tag.
