Flash Memory Summit showcases new products

The Flash Memory Summit will convene August 12 for a three day run at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel. The conference will include half-day tutorials, panel discussions, keynotes, paper sessions, and workshops. Here are a few of the companies will have products on the exhibit floor.

Adtron/Smart Modular Technologies (www.smartm.com) will showcase its Xceed flash products along with the Adtron family of industrial-grade solid-state drives that provide up to 128 Gbytes in a 2.5-in. form factor.

EncryptX (www.encryptx.com) will show removable drive and media encryption products. Its SecurMedia 3.1 automatically detects and transparently encrypts any type of PC removable drive and media, including flash drives, removable HDDs, SD cards, CF, memory sticks, CDs, DVDs, and RDX drives.

Adtron’s Flashpak Data Storage SSDs have 32-, 64-, and 128-Gbyte configurations.

Intel (www.intel.com/go/SSD) will demonstrate its Z-P140 PATA solid-state drives. Among the smallest available at 12 x 18 x 1.8 mm, these rugged 2- and 4-Gbyte devices weigh just 0.6 g.

MOSAID (www.mosaid.com) will showcase its HLNAND HyperLink memory interface, which improves the performance of mass-storage apps such as SSDs. HLNAND yields sustained I/O bandwidths 10 times higher than conventional flash.

Intel’s 4-Gbyte Z-P140 SSD comes in one of the smallest packages available.

Toshiba (ssd.toshiba.com) will show MLC-based solid-state drives with capacities up to 128 Gbytes for mobile computing. The drives support fast parallel data transfer, wear-leveling, and achieve performance levels nearly comparable to those of single-level cell-based drives.

SST (www.sst.com) will have on hand the All-in-OneMemory, an easy-to-use, single-package memory subsystem with full benefits of NOR, NAND and RAM in a unified architecture offering execute-in-place (XIP) code storage.

Samsung’s (www.samsung.com) 64-Gbyte solid-state drives with a SATA II interface offer the industry’s highest performance for notebooks. The drives can read at 100 Mbytes/s and write at 80 Mbytes/s, two to five times faster than conventional hard-disk drives.

Jim Harrison

The Flash Memory Summit will be held August 12, 13, and 14 at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel. For more information, visit www.flashmemorysummit.com.