September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jim Handy from Objective Analysis talked about the future of solid state storage and the changing nature of both memory and storage. new technologies will enable architectures better suited for the data needs of he future. In the early days of computers, the industry established a…
March 2015 – In a briefing with the Samsung Semiconductor group, we received an update on its mobile memory and SSD products. Mueez Deen, Senior Director of Marketing for Mobile Memory was discussing the new capacities for LPDDR4 DRAM. The product is now available in 4GB in a single package which will enable new higher…
February 23, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Kinam Kim from Samsung Electronics gave the first plenary talk relating developments in silicon technologies and the solutions they may provide for our data-driven lines. The developments include silicon, packaging, and small chip security for IoT. The number of connected devices already exceeds the number of people, and will continue…
August 5, 2014, Sunnyvale, CA—PMC released a new family of FlashTech NVRAM drives to create a new level of storage devices. The PCIe-based card uses DRAM with a super cap for supply backup as the main storage medium, and backs up the data on flash. This combination provides the speed and endurance of DRAM and…
October 2013 – This year Samsung’s Memory Solution Forum focused on the global issues of the enterprise and data center rather than the component features. This event, which was formally the CIO Forum, is in it third year, and is a mixed presentation and open discussion / Q&A event for technologist and executives to discuss,…
September 17, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel talked about the impact of the NVM programming model and persistent memory. Two movements are driving changes into the decades-old basic programming model. Block mode innovations include atomics, access hints, and NVM oriented operations. In addition, the emerging NVM technologies provide much higher…
February 5, 2013 – At the Linley Data Center Conference held in San Jose earlier this month, we had a chance to meeting the Ryan Baxter of Micron to discuss their new NVDIMM module that is targeted at enterprise servers. To bring higher reliability to the enterprise marketplace, the NVDIMM product looks like an RDIMM…
October 2012 – At the Linley networking and processor event, we had a chance to meet with Micron Technologies and discuss their high performance Networking DRAM solutions. These memories feature a reduced latency for fast random access, based on using a different internal design than from standard DRAM. The turnaround time on a data access…
November 2012, At this year’s Samsung CIO Conference, held in San Jose, the focus was on the global issues of ubiquitous connectivity through data centers and service providers in an environment that is constrained by the universal resources of power and pollution. The event open with an intro from SJ mayor Chuck Reed who was…
July 2012 – The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has made substantial progress in the past year since its launch. The advanced memory architecture solution has now completed and locked the 10 member companies of the core development team as of the end of May 2012. They have also finalized agreements with 35 adopter companies and…