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It is not ridiculous or out of ordinary. Intel/Micron parts use Floating process verses Samsung that uses Charge trap. I am not a semiconductor guy who knows the differences between these two. This was one of the reason Intel/Micron were late to the market. There are plenty of articles every where that one can read. I am not 100% certain who has the patents for this floating process Intel or Micron. But my guess would be it is Intel. That does not mean Micron can't use it. The joint venture between Intel/Micron was based on the fact that Intel will provide technology and Micron will provide fabs to make these parts. Broadly speaking.
I am going to list a few articles about this for everyone to read.
One is at Chipworks.com titled Intel/Micron Detail Their 3D-NAND at IEDM. It is one year old(dated Dec. 2015)
and second one is latest and it is at AnandTech titled
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10028/micron-3d-nand-status-update

You can make up your own mind. Intel has stated numerous times that its 3D Nand will be cheaper to produce and with much better performance.