Micron today announced a new SSD that uses its densest process to date and has a chip that can program the memory to act as high performance SLC or high-capacity MLC flash.

The M600 SSD is a client-class SSD that uses Micron’s new 16 nanometer (nm) lithography with 128Gb NAND density.

Because of the greater density (Micron previously used 20nm process lithography), the company was able to drop the cost per gigabyte to as little as 45 cents. The ability to dynamically program the flash also reduces power use and improves write performance as much as 2.8 times over models without the feature, according to Jon Tanguy, Micron’s senior technical marketing engineer.

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