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Afaya, based in Taipei, Taiwan, is committed to maintaining
its leading position as a solutions provider of flash memory products, leading
the way with innovative ideas while staying current on popular trends and
keeping an eye on potential upstart technology. As well, we are witnessing a
rapid growth in demand from other, related technology sectors and Afaya is in
the process of developing state-of-the-art products to anticipate those trends.
At the top of Afaya's list of exciting new developments is to take advantage of
its expertise in IC design and establish itself as a major player in the IC
Design House market. Specifically, Afaya plans to develop, manufacture and
market controller ICs designed specifically for flash memory interfaces used in
devices such as digital cameras, computers, card readers, PDAs and cell phones.
As for Afaya's globalization plans, we are currently building a worldwide
network system with plans to begin partnerships with prominent Japanese
companies which will help spur growth in market shares.
- editor's note:- Afaya also manufactures
SATA SSDs
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs & Benchmarks? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... |
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And here's another thing to
worry about...
The enterprise flash SSDs which you benchmarked
yourself - may surprise you by running much slower when deployed in
your own applications due to common "halo" errors which are implicit
in the set ups of many performance test suites which were originally designed
for HDDs. ...read
the article | | |
