Back in 1987, flash memory cost about $80,000 per gigabyte. Twenty years later in 2007, prices had fallen to just $10 per gigabyte. By 2014, just 27 cents. And then as of this writing, spot prices were quoting just about two cents per gigabyte. That is some insane scaling. Moore's Law might have faltered...in the logic world. But it is still alive and well in flash memory, particularly the variant known as NAND. In fact, one can argue that flash memory - first NOR and then NAND - has been one of the most successful semiconductor products ever made. In this video, the 60-year evolution of flash memory.
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