iPhone 7 will bring a major upgrade to the company's iPhone lineup Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and here we are talking both about an important design change and about new components designed to give us a much better user experience.
One of these new components for iPhone 7 was announced today by Toshiba and SanDisk, two of the three suppliers of NAND flash storage media for iPhone and iPad, they are preparing a truly special component for next year.
Specifically, Toshiba and SanDisk announced a new type of memory based on 3D BiCS NAND technology, a 32 GB storage medium that is faster and more energy efficient than any other similar component on the market to be launched by the two companies this year future.
The new product from Toshiba and SanDisk has a much higher degree of resistance than similar 2D components offered by other manufacturers and is produced using a 15nm manufacturing process, so it could be smaller than the components used now.
BiCS FLASH is based on a leading-edge 48-layer stacking process that surpasses the capacity of mainstream two dimensional NAND flash memory, while enhancing write/erase reliability endurance and boosting write speeds. The new 256Gb device is suitable for various applications, including consumer SSDs, smartphones, tablets, memory cards, and enterprise SSDs for data centers.
The new BiCS FLASH storage medium will go into production in September of this year, so it has no way to reach iPhone 6S, but it will most likely end up in iPhone 7 and its appearance could suggest that Apple is ready to give up terminals with 16 GB of storage space.
Of course, this could happen this year, before the new component appears on the market, but it is not long until September and we will find out what Apple has planned.
