Samsung doubles down on 1000-layer NAND for petabyte SSDs as it sets its sights on elusive 32TB M.2 solid state drives…
- Samsung wants NAND layer counts to reach four digits this decade
- Future M.2 SSDs could expand from 8TB to 32TB capacities
- Cell Multi-Bonding may replace traditional approaches to NAND density growth
Samsung has mapped out a NAND strategy stretching toward 1000-layer memory designs as demand for denser storage continues accelerating across industries.
The roadmap, disclosed during the IEEE/JSAP VLSI Symposium 2026, extends current vertical scaling plans far beyond existing commercial products.
At the centre of those ambitions sits a future generation of storage capable of pushing familiar SSD capacities into unfamiliar territory.
The route from today's drives to tomorrow's 32TB M.2 SSDs
Samsung expects its NAND technology to reach roughly 420 layers by 2029 before advancing beyond 560 layers during 2030.
Beyond that point, the company intends to explore architectures carrying between 900 and 1000 layers within future generations of flash memory.
Rather than constructing one towering NAND structure, Samsung...
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