Samsung has announced that it has begun mass production of industry's first 3D V-NAND flash memory using 32 vertically stacked cell layers. The new V-NAND is a significant push forward from previously available 24-layer V-NAND and delivers much better production efficiency.

The new 32-layer 3D V-NAND will have approximately twice the endurance for data writing and consume 20 percent less power compared to planar (2D) MLC NAND, according to Samsung. In addition to the mass production of the new 32-bit layer V-NAND flash memory, Samsung has also launched a line of premium SSDs based on this 2nd generation V-NAND with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB storage options. Unfortunately, Samsung did not shed much details regarding these drives but did note that it plans to cover the PC market with an extensive V-NAND SSD lineup.

Later this year, Samsung also plans to introduce additional premium 3D V-NAND based SSDs which will also be based on same 2nd-gen V-NAND but offer even higher reliability and higher density.

According to recent research from Gartner, global memory market is expected to grow from US $75.5 billion to US $79.7 billion in 2017, which is definitely a good news for Samsung.

Source: Samsung.com.