Intel 665p is announced with a new 96-layer nand qlc

NAND technology continues to evolve, bringing with it higher performance, lower prices, and the promise of tighter competition. QLC NAND is one of the latest innovations in this memory technology, which increases the bit density of NAND storage. With this premise, the Intel 665p has been announced.

Intel has unveiled a 665p prototype that offers a 40-50% increase in transfer speeds.

Intel 660p has quickly become one of the world's most popular QLC powered SSDs, and this drive will soon be replaced by another, which will feature 96-layer QLC NAND and the same SM2263 controller as the original.

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Although a NAND update may not seem like much, Intel has unveiled a prototype 665p that offers a 40-50% increase in sequential transfer speeds, and a 30% increase in random access speeds. 4K random reads and writes also see a drop in latency, another factor that will increase performance.

Another advantage of Intel's 96-layer NAND is the increased storage potential per NAND chip, which enables you to create 2TB M.2 SSDs without using both sides of an M.2 board. Although Intel could use it to increase the maximum storage of its upcoming 665p SSDs, right now it seems that Intel intends to launch the same 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities as its original 665p.