October 22, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—The senior executives described the efforts and results in the company since their acquisition of the NEC assets. They noted that the third DevCon had more attendees and 36 percent of those people were not from existing customers. They heralded their increasing number and value of ecosystem partners. The…
August 2012, At the Flash Memory Summit we had a chance to talk to Jeff Bader of Micron about their directions and offerings for the embedded Flash space. Unlike the consumer external Flash memory solutions which are high capacity, low duty cycle and short lifetime products, dominated by NAND, the embedded space has different criteria….
August 2012 – At Siggraph, Fusion I/O was showing their new PCIe interface card that uses MLC Flash to create a cache for graphics operating software (called the IOFX card). Available now in a 420GB or 512GB configuration (with retail pricing starting at $2495USD) the board is targeted at accelerating large data tasks with a…
August 1, 2012 – We had the opportunity to talk to Fusion IO CEO David Flynn before the big Woz 62 birthday event in SF on August first. David introduced their new ION software stack for their SSD products that allow for a software configurable storage system. This software allows the enterprise management console to…
June 2012 – At the Creative Storage Conference 2012 held in Culver City, the discussion focused on Workflows, large data stores and the growing technologies for near field and active data access. The conference opened with a framing conversation and presentation by conference organizer Tom Coughlin on data storage requirements for current and near term…
May 2012 – Long time Flash provider Spansion, has brought a new product offering to the embedded marketplace. Targeted as an OEM memory to key application suppliers, rather than a finished consumer product, they are launching a high reliability, high performance SLC nand product. This is not a cost driven move into the NAND space,…
February 20, 2012, ISSCC, San Francisco—Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk described flash memory as a disruptive force in the industry. Nonvolatile memory has been around for a really long time. The first examples were clay tablets which required high effort for one-time programming. More recently, in 1970 Intel invented the EPROM which was programmable…
December 12, 2011 – Washington DC – The International Electron Device Meeting of the IEEE is the premier annual event on the directions in process technology advancement and the future of device scaling. The event has traditionally be the vehicle for promotion and validation of Moore’s law. As process technology is reaching several limits on…
December 15, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Renesas Electronics Corp. just announced the availability of their new embedded Flash memory IP for the automotive industry. Supplementing their 90nm process solutions, they have chosen to bypass the 65nm and 55nm nodes and moved directly to a 40nm process. This is a fully qualified automotive process…
There has been a great deal of attention on the market growth and density increased in consumer grade NAND Flash memory. While these are being targeted at user controlled content (music, video, SSDs), embedded systems that have long life cycles still rely on NOR Flash. Traditional NOR Flash utilized a parallel interface to access the…