Samsung's new 3-bit SSD

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has begun mass production of three-bit vertical NAND flash memory chips for the first time in the world to offer chips with improved data storage efficiency.
The world's largest chipmaker in August unveiled the chip, called triple level cell (TLC), which stores three bits of data in each cell. Until recently, the three-bit technology has been applied only to planar NAND flash products.