Flash Memory Summit illuminates key technology

Flash Memory Summit illuminates key technology

The Flash Memory Summit will be at the Santa Clara Convention Center for three days starting Tuesday August 11th. The conferences in-depth technical sessions cover flash in embedded systems, enterprise, consumer devices, and solid-state drives. The exhibit floor is open Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. and Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30. The conference provides all attendees the opportunity to ask questions, see the latest products, meet key people, and participate in important discussions. There will be eight important keynotes speeches from industry leaders from Numonyx, Sun Microsystems, SanDisk, Samsung, Micron, and Western Digital. Here a just a few of the new products to view while you are there.

Intel will demonstrate its super-fast solid-state drives that run cooler and are extremely durable. The drives are the new must-have hardware for any technical enthusiast. Datalight will show FlashFX Teraa flash management solution that provides high performance and data reliability, leading to responsive and reliable devices. The software will integrate with more than 300 flash chip part numbers and supports SLC and MLC NAND and NOR types. Finisar will have its Bus Doctor analyzers that simplify and accelerate the design and troubleshooting of serial and parallel buses. Protocols supported include PCIe, USB, SD/SDIO, and SATA. Samsung Electronics’ 256-Gbyte solid-state drive is three to five times faster than conventional hard-disk drives. The SSD launches applications at least five times faster than the fastest 7,200-rpm notebook HDD and takes just 1.1 W.

MOSAID Technology’s HLNANDT multi-chip package employs conventional asynchronous NAND die and a custom bridge chip to provide an external high-performance 266-Mbit/s HyperLink interface. The bridge chip includes four independent 40-Mbyte/s asynchronous internal interfaces. SandForce will introduce the innovative SF-1000 family of SSD processors, which enable commodity NAND flash to reliably operate in enterprise and mobile storage applications. It yields world-class SSD reliability, performance, and power efficiency.

STEC will demonstrate the Zeus-IOPS family of SSDs that feature 45 KIOPS and a 220-Mbyte/s transfer rate. Companies such as EMC, IBM, SUN, Hitachi and many other top-tier OEMs use Zeus-IOPS SSDs. SMART Modular Technologies’ 400-Gbyte XceedIOPS PCIe solid-state drive delivers 140k random write IOPS performance. It features state-of-the-art flash management algorithms, advanced wear-leveling, and a backbone architecture that can have two, four, or eight nodes with 24 or 50 Gbytes per node.

Jim Harrison

For more information on the Flash Memory Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, from August 11 to 13, visit http://www.flashmemorysummit.com.