If you could open up one of the best gaming SSDs and dig inside its chips, you'd see that the flash memory is made up of many layers, hundreds in some models. Memory chip giant Kioxia is aiming to scale this all the way up to 1,000 layers by 2027, paving the way for 20 TB SSDs that could sell for as little as $250.
As reported by Japanese tech site PC Watch (via Hot Hardware), Kioxia declared its lofty goals at this year's International Memory Workshop in Seoul. In its keynote speech to the hundreds of delegates attending the conference, Kioxia showed how 3D NAND flash, the type of memory chip that all gaming SSDs now use, has rapidly developed in recent years—the amount of storage in one square millimetre chip has grown by a factor of 10 in just eight years.
