Apple welcomes the AI ​​wave and is planning to switch to QLC NAND for iPhone: storage limit to 2TB

IT Home News on July 25th, TrendForce released a market research report on July 22nd, revealing that Apple is planning to use QLC NAND flash memory, which will be used in iPhone products as early as 2026, allowing its storage limit to reach 2TB.

QLC and TLC

1. TLC (Triple Level Cell): Each cell stores 3 bits of information, Lower cost than MLC NAND, widely used in consumer electronics and SSDs.
2. QLC (Quad-Level Cells): Stores 4 bits of data per cell, 33% denser than TLC, commonly used in entry-level SSDs and mass storage.
3. QLC NAND has low endurance, with P/E Cycle between 100 and 1000. Manufacturers use error correction mechanisms and reserved configurations to maintain reliability.

Apple may adopt QLC NAND on the iPhone 14 series or 16 Pro series .

TrendForce believes that Apple is promoting QLC NAND replacement to increase the built-in storage limit to 2TB.

2. Large Language Model

Apple explores using NAND flash memory to store large language models (LLM), instead of memory to run more AI tasks locally.

The transition to QLC NAND may help improve the performance of Apple Intelligence.

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