The company is offering flash memory for servers and as flash appliances and all flash memory storage arrays.
FORBES: Explosive Growth in Flash Memory Enterprise Applications
This new generation of MLC flash memory SSDs include improvements in the flash cells themselves combined with NAND flash memory management in the controller to achieve much better flash cell endurance.
In the week running up to the 2012 Flash Memory Summit, August 20-23, 2012 ( www.flashmemorysummit.com) there have been a number of announcements on flash memory products and even flash memory company acquisitions.
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By building heating into the flash memory design, Macronix thinks that flash memory cells could last 100 M write cycles rather than the 10 thousand or so cycles possible today with MLC flash memory.
Flash memory with higher endurance will increase their performance and may also allow higher flash memory storage capacities by reducing one of the draw-backs in finer lithography flash memory chips endurance declines with narrower lithography flash cells.
The flash memory in the Fusion Drive moves data and applications frequently accessed by the user to the flash memory and move less frequently used data to the hard disk drive as the flash memory becomes full.
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Flash memory is being used as an acceleration layer in many enterprise applications and recent announcements by Macronix indicate that the write life endurance for flash memory cells can be increased considerably by locally exposing NAND flash memory cells to a high heat (about 800 C).
In addition, as useful amounts of flash memory storage are now affordable, the ruggedness of flash memory and the ability to stack chips to provide slim package designs have made NAND flash the choice non-volatile storage technology for mobile devices.
At least in the short term, the biggest opportunities for flash memory in computers probably involve combining flash memory and HDDs.
This too has been enabled by lower price flash memory (although not a 20 nm flash memory product).
Over 8 times as many gigabytes of NAND flash memory has shipped than DRAM, making flash memory the largest solid state memory device on the market and enabling many mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers.
By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
Flash memory is of course the main focus of the Flash Memory Summit but other storage technologies are playing a growing role in the storage ecosystem.
Micron Technology is a manufacturer and marketer of memory products, primarily dynamic random access memory for PCs and mobile devices, NAND Flash and NOR Flash memory products.
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SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that it is developing flash memory cards based on the new CFast2.0 specification introduced today by the CompactFlash Association (CFA).
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The company will accomplish this with advanced flash management algorithms using RAID 5 technology and a proprietary flash memory controller while providing acceptable flash endurance.
FORBES: Explosive Growth in Flash Memory Enterprise Applications
This could provide further competitive advantages for Toshiba, particularly for products that might combine HDDs and flash memory to achieve better consumer experiences at lower prices than with flash memory alone.
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Flash memory has played an important role in these mobile consumer devices because it is rugged, flash memory chips can be stacked to enable compact devices, it uses small amounts of battery power and enough storage capacity can be included to make these devices useful for some common tasks such as email and media playing.
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At his keynote talk during the Flash Memory Summit Jeff Burke from Seagate presented a compelling case for the growth of hard disk drives and flash memory in the coming years.
It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple's classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
It was bad enough when flash memory overtook hard drives in little devices: Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s classic iPod used a tiny hard drive memory, but the other models rely on flash memory.
Consumer-grade MLC flash memory are used in the Skyhawk by creating controller technology that can increase the effective endurance life-time of the flash memory cells.
FORBES: Flash and Fire -- Flash Memory Announcements Before FMS 2012
PCIe is becoming popular for flash memory storage devices since it offers much faster data rates than traditional SATA , SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces, which flash memory storage devices can make use of.
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It's also 100 percent digital albeit with a paltry 256 MB of flash memory and no flash card slot.
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Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.
The flash memory is SLC flash.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
The product is Intel's first SSD to use the latest 20nm NAND flash memory jointly developed by IM Flash Technologies (IMFT).
Back in early 2012 this blog predicted that with 19-20 nm lithography flash memory the same number of flash chips that provided 64 GB of storage capacity could give 128 GB of capacity.
Control of power utilization in these data centers will drive new tiered storage approaches with solid state storage combined with HDDs and with new non-volatile memory using either flash memory or new approaches such as MRAM.
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