Samsung just announced a new SSD that's tiny in physical size but huge in capacity. The chip offers up 512GB storage and is the first ever to offer NVMe in a BGA package. 256GB and 128GB options are also available. The SSDs promise sequential read speeds of up to 1,500MB/s, write speeds up to 900MB/s and IOPS of 190K and 150K respectively. The chip, dubbed PM971-NVMe, measures a mere 20 x 16 x 1.5mm and weighs a gram. In that minuscule package, Samsung managed to fit 512MB LPDDR RAM, a Samsung controller and an impressive 48 layers of 256-gigabit V-NAND flash chips. Samsung...
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