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Jame5 Typical NAND chips present in SSDs have steadily evolved in speed and capacity over time, with contemporary server-grade units capable of reaching 28 GB/s per unit. This sentence is incorrect. the SSDs have evolved to reach 28GB/s per unit. Not the NAND chips present in them. It takes many chips in parallel and good controller design to reach those speeds. The NAND is part of it, but the individual chips are not running at 28GB/s per unit. It's like by the time they finished the sentence they forgot how they started it. Reply
Scott_Tx "It's like by the time they finished the sentence they forgot how they started it." Like they ran out of the context window you could say. Reply
edzieba Bet Intel and Micron wished they still had their Chalcogenide plant running for 3DXpoint. It fills that exact niche, and the absurd margins and the anything-you-can-fab demands of the AI bubble would have gotten them over the initial production hump. Reply
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