From InfoWorld: A strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter, and there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
Now consider this, Micron this week announced it's producing NAND flash based on transistors only 16-nanometers in size, and each microscopic cell is capable of storing three bits of data.
The new NAND flash is Micron's first triple-level cell (TLC) solid-state technology to be targeted at the consumer SSD market, and the new process for creating it is 28 percent more dense than anything previously produced. Micron had been shipping products using 20nm NAND flash.
The 16nm TLC NAND flash memory will produce 16GB (128Gbit) chips that will be used in cost-competitive consumer storage applications, including USB drives and consumer SSDs that will begin shipping in the third quarter of this year.
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