Macronix Starts Production of 36nm SLC NAND Flash

Macronix International Co., Ltd has started production of its second generation of SLC NAND Flash, utilizing 36nm floating-gate technology.  

The 36nm floating-gate technology was developed at Macronix’s 300mm fab.

The new SLC NAND family will be offered in densities from 1Gb to 8Gb in both 3.0V and 1.8V voltages, extended industrial temperature range with product longevity support.  

Macronix has also unveiled NAND-based MCP (Multi-Chip Package) solutions to provide customers a complete portfolio of NAND Flash products.  These NAND and MCP products are targeted at a range of applications for the embedded and wireless markets.

As customer applications and OSs become more sophisticated, the need for more robust and higher-density storage solutions are growing. Macronix’s SLC NAND products were developed to support these market trends featuring the balance of performance, reliability, densities and voltages along with the longevity support from Macronix owned wafer fabs.

“The addition of the 36nm SLC NAND Flash products to our existing 512Mb and 1Gb first generation SLC NAND product family puts Macronix in a position to support virtually all of our customer demands for SLC NAND products,” said F.L. Ni, VP marketing, Macronix. “Our expanded NAND portfolio along with our broad serial and parallel NOR and industry leading XtraROM products exhibits Macronix’s continued commitment to the development and production of advanced non-volatile memory products and solutions to fulfill the growing demands from our customers.”

Key Features of 36nm SLC NAND Family:

• 36nm floating-gate process technology
• Industrial temperature range (-40°C to +85°C)
• Reliability with 100K program/erase (P/E) cycle endurance
• SLC NAND performance with 25?s random access, 25ns sequential access
• Industry-standard 48-pin TSOP, and 63-ball VFBGA packages
• Product Longevity Program support

Product Availability:

• 3.0 V and 1.8V 2Gb, 4Gb 36nm NAND products started sampling in Q1 of 2014 with production availability now.
• 8Gb 36nm NAND products will be sampling in the third quarter of 2014 with product availability in Q4 of 2014.
• 1Gb 36nm NAND products will be sampling in the fourth quarter of 2014 with production availability in Q1 of 2015.
• The NAND MCP are sampling in Q2 2014, with volume production beginning in the second half of 2014.
• 1Gb and 512Mb first generation NAND products are in mass production