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Austin Semiconductor

Austin Semiconductor, founded 20 years ago and based in Austin, Texas, designs and manufactures the SSDoC - SSD on Chip - for high reliability rugged embedded applications, and also has a range of COTS RAM and flash chips and modules.

Austin Semiconductor, Inc. (ASI) is a fully QML certified, ISO registered company that supports the high reliability requirements of industries including Military, Aerospace, Transportation, Industrial-Embedded as well as and Medical.

ASI offers I/C components, Multi-Chip Modules and Integrated product solutions to their customers through a broad line of HI-REL Integrated Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (iPEM) as well as Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) upscreened products.

ASI continually adds and maintains many product lines composed of standard & specialty memory and digital & analog solutions. ASI also offers Whole Life Product Support services, aiding its customers through the technology transitions.

see also:- Austin Semiconductor - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com

  • editor's notes:- in September 2007 - Austin Semiconductor announced its Solid State Disk on Chip - a PATA compatible flash SSD in a 1.22" square footprint with upto 16GB capacity.

    In November 2008 - Austin Semiconductor announced a new physically smaller SSD chip for ruggedized embedded applications. Measuring 31mm sq x 7.8mm high it has an embedded IDE, PIO/4 interface, an MTBF of more than 2 million hours and upto 16GB capacity.

    In February 2010 - Austin Semiconductor recently announced it plans to change its name and (along with some other companies) it will be merged into a new entity and brand to be called Micross Components.

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