Don’t Expect Cheaper SSDs Anytime Soon: HBF Would Cost Just $0.64 Per GB But Consume 6.5x More Wafers Than A Typical TLC NAND

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If High Bandwidth Flash or HBF proves to be a commercial success, it would likely preclude cheaper SSDs for the foreseeable future, especially as HBF presumably entails just one-tenth of the cost of a comparable HBM4 stack, leading to a Jevons paradox-driven incremental demand. An 8-Hi stack of HBF will cost $0.64 per GB vs. the $6.78 per GB cost for an 8-Hi HBM4 stack For the benefit of those… — Wccftech

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