{"id":13304,"date":"2024-11-21T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:14:02","slug":"sk-hynix-starts-mass-production-of-worlds-first-321-high-nand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=13304","title":{"rendered":"SK hynix Starts Mass Production of World&#8217;s First 321-High NAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Industry&#8217;s first 321-high NAND of 1Tb developed for supply in 1H25<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Three Plugs&#8221; process technology leads to technological breakthrough for stacking, improves speed, power efficiency<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Company on track to becoming &#8220;Full Stack AI Memory Provider&#8221; with enhanced competitiveness in AI storage<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SEOUL, South Korea<\/span>, Nov. 21, 2024 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; SK hynix Inc. (or &#8220;the company&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.skhynix.com<\/a>) announced today that it has started mass production of the world&#8217;s first triple level cell*-based 321-high 4D NAND Flash with 1Tb capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563072\/IMG_3580.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563072\/IMG_3580.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" alt=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">*NAND Flash products are categorized into single-, multi-, triple-, quadruple-, and penta-level cells, depending on the number of the information in the format of bit unit is stored in a cell. A bigger number of information stored means more data can be stored in the same space.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>Following its previous record as the industry&#8217;s first provider of the <span>world&#8217;s highest<\/span> 238-layer NAND since June last year, SK hynix has become the world&#8217;s first supplier of the NAND with more than 300 layers by finding a technological breakthrough for stacking. The company plans to provide the 321-high products to customers from the first half of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Stacking more than 300 layers came into reality as the company successfully adopted the &#8220;3 plugs&#8221;** process technology. Known for an excellent production efficiency, the process electrically connects three plugs through an optimized follow-up process after three times of plug processes are finished. For the process, SK hynix developed a low-stress*** material, while introducing the technology that automatically corrects alignments among the plugs.<\/p>\n<p>With the adoption of the same development platform from the 238-high NAND on the 321-high product, the company could also improve the productivity by 59%, compared with the previous generation, by minimizing any impacts from a process switch.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">** Plug: a vertical hole through layers of substrates aimed at creating cells at once<br \/>*** Low Stress: Preventing wafer warpage by changing the material into the plugs<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>The latest product comes with an improvement of 12% in data transfer speed and 13% in reading performance, compared with the previous generation. It also enhances data reading power efficiency by more than 10%.<\/p>\n<p>SK hynix plans to steadily expand the use of the 321-high products by providing them to the nascent AI applications, which require low power and high performance.<\/p>\n<p>Jungdal Choi, Head of NAND Development at SK hynix, said that the latest development brings the company a step closer to the leadership of the AI storage market represented by SSD for AI data centers and on-device AI. &#8220;SK hynix is on track to advancing to the Full Stack AI Memory Provider by adding a perfect portfolio in the ultra-high performance NAND space on top of the DRAM business led by HBM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About SK hynix Inc.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world&#8217;s top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (&#8220;DRAM&#8221;), flash memory chips (&#8220;NAND flash&#8221;) and CMOS Image Sensors (&#8220;CIS&#8221;) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company&#8217;s shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.skhynix.com<\/a>, news.skhynix.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563073\/IMG_3581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563073\/IMG_3581.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" alt=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Industry&#8217;s first 321-high NAND of 1Tb developed for supply in 1H25<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Three Plugs&#8221; process technology leads to technological breakthrough for stacking, improves speed, power efficiency<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Company on track to becoming &#8220;Full Stack AI Memory Provider&#8221; with enhanced competitiveness in AI storage<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SEOUL, South Korea<\/span>, Nov. 21, 2024 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; SK hynix Inc. (or &#8220;the company&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.skhynix.com<\/a>) announced today that it has started mass production of the world&#8217;s first triple level cell*-based 321-high 4D NAND Flash with 1Tb capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563072\/IMG_3580.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563072\/IMG_3580.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" alt=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">*NAND Flash products are categorized into single-, multi-, triple-, quadruple-, and penta-level cells, depending on the number of the information in the format of bit unit is stored in a cell. A bigger number of information stored means more data can be stored in the same space.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following its previous record as the industry&#8217;s first provider of the <span>world&#8217;s highest<\/span> 238-layer NAND since June last year, SK hynix has become the world&#8217;s first supplier of the NAND with more than 300 layers by finding a technological breakthrough for stacking. The company plans to provide the 321-high products to customers from the first half of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Stacking more than 300 layers came into reality as the company successfully adopted the &#8220;3 plugs&#8221;** process technology. Known for an excellent production efficiency, the process electrically connects three plugs through an optimized follow-up process after three times of plug processes are finished. For the process, SK hynix developed a low-stress*** material, while introducing the technology that automatically corrects alignments among the plugs.<\/p>\n<p>With the adoption of the same development platform from the 238-high NAND on the 321-high product, the company could also improve the productivity by 59%, compared with the previous generation, by minimizing any impacts from a process switch.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">** Plug: a vertical hole through layers of substrates aimed at creating cells at once<br \/>*** Low Stress: Preventing wafer warpage by changing the material into the plugs<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest product comes with an improvement of 12% in data transfer speed and 13% in reading performance, compared with the previous generation. It also enhances data reading power efficiency by more than 10%.<\/p>\n<p>SK hynix plans to steadily expand the use of the 321-high products by providing them to the nascent AI applications, which require low power and high performance.<\/p>\n<p>Jungdal Choi, Head of NAND Development at SK hynix, said that the latest development brings the company a step closer to the leadership of the AI storage market represented by SSD for AI data centers and on-device AI. &#8220;SK hynix is on track to advancing to the Full Stack AI Memory Provider by adding a perfect portfolio in the ultra-high performance NAND space on top of the DRAM business led by HBM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About SK hynix Inc.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world&#8217;s top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (&#8220;DRAM&#8221;), flash memory chips (&#8220;NAND flash&#8221;) and CMOS Image Sensors (&#8220;CIS&#8221;) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company&#8217;s shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.skhynix.com<\/a>, news.skhynix.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563073\/IMG_3581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2563073\/IMG_3581.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" alt=\"SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>SK hynix\u2019s 321-high NAND<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}