Rumor indicates that Micron would already have ready to produce OLC NAND Flash (Octa-Level) memories

A rumor appears that Micron would have developed the OLC NAND Flash memories, new Octa-Level memories, far superior to the QLC.

Rumors have surfaced that Micron will shortly overcome Moore's Law. The company seems to be planning to launch OLC NAND Flash (Octa-Level NAND) memories. The company in May 2018 announced that they had developed the new quad-level NAND memory chips, also called QLC. This information arrives as a leak, so we do not know if this type of memory really exists. According to rumors, the manufacture of these memories will begin during the first or second quarter of 2019.

Micron would have developed OLC NAND Flash memories

This new type of OLC NAND Flash memory will have twice the storage density on the same chip. Basically if each QLC memory chip could store 32GB, these new memory chips could store 64GB. Despite all this, there is no official data from the company, so we are going to take it with caution. Before launching the bells to the flight we should know the density, performance or useful life of OLC memories with respect to QLC.

Currently SSDs are reasonably priced and sized and with QLC memory should improve the situation. Yet Micron is having more problems than anticipated with its new QLC memories. The company currently with these new chips would have an error rate that would be above 50 percent, making these memories unprofitable for production.

We assume that in the next few days this information will be confirmed or denied by Micron. We will keep an eye out for developments as it could be a huge leap for solid state storage drives.

Source: HOCP