Micron Technology Launches SLC NAND Flash For IoT, Automotive

(RTTNews) - Micron Technology, Inc. (MU), Thursday announced the launch of SLC NAND Flash optimized for the next generation of Internet of Things and automotive applications. The company noted that the second generation Serial NAND and fifth generation parallel SLC NAND offers reliability, read & program performance, ease of design and advanced security features. The embedded solutions is intended to power the performance for the connected home, wearables and the connected car

Gartner projects the IoT endpoint hardware and services market will rise to a $3.5 trillion industry by 2020.

Aravind Ramamoorthy, product line director of NAND flash for Micron's Embedded Business Unit said, "The new SLC NAND Flash technology enable a new category of embedded applications that need reliable, high-performance, low pin count and secure4 memory for code and low density data storage."