Samsung's new 512GB solid state drive is impossibly tiny

Samsung is now mass producing an impossibly tiny solid state drive for use in ultraportable notebooks and next-generation PCs.

The PM971-NVMe is the industry’s first NVMe PCIe SSD in a single ball grid array (BGA) package. It was created by combining 16 of Samsung’s 48-layer 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND flash chips, one 20-nanometer 4Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip and a high-performance controller.

Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president of memory product planning & application engineering team at Samsung Electronics, said the new BGA NVMe SSD triples the performance of a typical SATA SSD with capacities of up to 512GB.