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Not so long ago, we took an in-depth look at Micron’s first foray into the 3D NAND world. While Micron took much longer to bring its 3D floating-gate cells to market than Samsung did with its charge-trap based V-NAND, the MX300 proved to be worth the wait.

But there are more differences between Micron and Samsung than merely the nature of their cell-stacking technologies. Samsung doesn’t sell its NAND flash to smaller, fab-less SSD brands to bin and repackage. Instead, Samsung goes it alone with vertically-integrated products marketed to OEMs, system integrators, and consumers alike. Micron, on the other hand, is more than happy to sell the little guys some of its bits and pieces. So while Samsung’s V-NAND may have drawn first blood, Micron’s 3D NAND debut heralds the coming of a whole ecosystem of products with 3D flash inside… at TechReport