Samsung’s newest devices are running smoothly on the company’s new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 memory chips, but Samsung’s also been working to improve its financial gains in the business sector. In a move that pits the Korean manufacturer against Micron Technology and Intel, Samsung has entered into an agreement with Google to supply three-dimensional, NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs) for Google datacenters, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The new 3D NAND SSDs offer a few advantages over current 2D chips in that 1) they provide faster performance and speed, and 2) they allow greater vertical stacking of memory die which means that 3D SSDs can pack more memory but have better efficiency and endurance. Datacenters are larger than smartphones and, by definition, require greater amounts of memory space and capacity than flash memory for smartphones. Datacenters also mandate greater memory read/write speeds than smartphones, and Samsung’s 3D NAND SSDs will work toward this end.
One thing that remains in negotiation is shipments and pricing. “Samsung is in discussions with Google to end some minor differences such as guaranteed shipments and pricing,” a spokesperson said.
There have been no details on how massive of a deal this is, but a Samsung representative says that it’s “sizeable.”
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