Micron announced volume delivery of its first PCIe Gen4 solid-state drives (SSDs) built with the world’s first 176-layer NAND. The company is also shipping the world’s first 1α node-based LPDDR4x DRAM this month. LPDDR4x is the latest JEDEC specification for fourth-generation low-power DRAM with improved input/output voltage for substantially lower power, making it ideal for […]
Storage
SSD controllers support PCIe 5.0, NVMe 1.4b
Marvell announced its new Bravera SC5 controller family, bringing unprecedented performance, best-in-class efficiency, and leading security features to address ever-expanding workloads in the cloud. The massive amount of data to be processed in cloud data centers is driving demand for faster and higher bandwidth storage in these environments. Marvell’s Bravera SC5 SSD controllers address the […]
New microSD card encrypts, protects video and image data
Swissbit is expanding its range of hardware-based security solutions with the launch of the iShield Camera. The new unique microSD product series has been specially developed for the encryption and access protection of video recording and image capture. It is host-agnostic and can therefore be used with a wide range of camera types and functions. […]
Data processing units built for AI and accelerated computing
NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, its next-generation data processing unit, to deliver the most powerful software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity acceleration capabilities available for data centers. The first DPU built for AI and accelerated computing, BlueField-3 lets every enterprise deliver applications at any scale with industry-leading performance and data center security. It is optimized […]
Next-generation AI-enabled processor cranks out 1,000 TOPS
NVIDIA revealed its next-generation AI-enabled processor for autonomous vehicles, NVIDIA DRIVE Atlan, which will deliver more than 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) and targets automakers’ 2025 models. The NVIDIA DRIVE Atlan system-on-a-chip — the newest addition to NVIDIA’s centralized compute roadmap for autonomous vehicles — fuses AI and software with the latest in computing, […]
nvSRAM qualified to QML-Q and high-reliability industrial specifications
Infineon Technologies LLC announced the availability of its second-generation non-volatile Static RAMs (nvSRAM). The new generation of devices are qualified for QML-Q and high-reliability industrial specifications to support demanding non-volatile code storage and data-logging applications in harsh environments, including aerospace and industrial applications. The 256 kb STK14C88C and 1 Mb STK14CA8C nvSRAMs are qualified in […]
pSLC microSD card stores up to 64 GB
To keep in step with industry development and meet market demands, FORESEE, the technology-based brand of Longsys has officially launched the FORESEE pSLC microSD storage card recently. With highly reliable pSLC storage chips and capacity options ranging from 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, to 128GB, it aims to provide industry customers with diversified mobile storage solutions. […]
176-layer, 4D NAND flash improves bit productivity
SK Hynix Inc. announced the completion of developing the industry’s most multilayered 176-layer 512 Gigabit (Gb) Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 4D NAND flash. The Company provided the samples to controller companies last month to make a solution product. SK Hynix has been promoting 4D technology from the 96-layer NAND flash products that combine Charge Trap Flash […]
SSDs with 3D NAND flash memory support serial ATA
TDK Corporation announces a new generation of flash storage products with five series, available December 2020, optimized for industrial, medical, art grid, transportation, and security applications. All five series use GBDriver GS2, TDK’s proprietary NAND flash memory control IC, which supports serial ATA. As 3D flash memory technology advances, flash storage solutions with capacities over […]
Enterprise-grade 16-channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe hardware + firmware combo speeds SSD development
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced the SM8266, a complete enterprise-grade 16-channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe hardware plus firmware turnkey SSD controller solution. Customers can rapidly develop and bring to market enterprise SSDs for data centers by using our complete development platform that includes a turnkey NVMe firmware stack and hardware reference design kit. The SM8266 controller […]
