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AGIGA Tech

Headquartered in Poway, California with a product development and test center in Chengdu, China, AGIGA Tech was founded in February 2008 as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor. AGIGA Tech’s AGIGARAM products are the world’s first high-speed, high-density RAMs that do not need environmentally-unfriendly batteries. The company’s products are available worldwide through the Cypress sales force and its distributor partners. More information on the company is available at www.AgigaTech.com.

  • Editor's comments:- in May 2009 -AGIGA Tech started sampling its new AGIGARAM™ non-volatile system (NVS) technology which delivers densities between 4 megabytes (32 megabits) and 2 gigabytes (16 gigabits) and peak transfer rates equivalent to DRAMs.
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Can You Trust Your Flash SSD's Specs?
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...

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

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