These new drives, dubbed by the press as the X25-M and X18-M G2[7][8] (or generation 2), reduced prices by up to 60 percent while offering lower latency and improved performance.
[9] On February 1, 2010, Intel and Micron announced that they were gearing up for production of NAND flash memory using a new 25-nanometer process.
[10] In March of that same year, Intel entered the budget SSD segment with its X25-V drives with an initial capacity of 40 GB.
[11] The SSD 310, Intel's first mSATA drive was released in December 2010, providing X25-M G2 performance in a much smaller package.
[17] Micron and Intel announced that they were producing their first 20 nm MLC NAND flash on April 14, 2011.
[20][21] In late 2015, Intel announced that they were producing their first consumer PCIe-based solid state drive, to be named the 750 series.
In 2017, Intel launched the 900P series Optane SSDs based on 3D XPoint technology as opposed to NAND flash memory.