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Forward Insights

Forward Insights provides independent, insightful market and technical research, consulting and information services focusing on semiconductor memories and solid state storage. The company offers unparalleled depth and understanding of the strategic, market and technical complexities of the semiconductor memory landscape.

See also:- Forward Insights - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com and FI founder Gregory Wong's linkedin page.

editor's comments:- January 2012 - Forward Insights is listed in my recommended short list of SSD Market Analysts. FI have been publishing regular reports (too numerous to list here) about the flash SSD market since about 2008.

Forward Insights recent mentions in SSD market history

In July 2009 - Forward Insights published a market report - Key NAND Flash Memory Design IP (price is $9,999).

Technical innovations in NAND flash memory design are key enablers of MLC flash memories, especially 3 and 4 bit-per-cell technologies.

The report identifies important intellectual property related to sensing architectures, source voltage noise compensation, programming algorithms, disturbs reduction, temperature compensation, high voltage switch, coding schemes and error correction codes from Hynix, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba.

The author, Luca Crippa is an MLC flash memory designer with more than 10 years of experience and is the author/co-author of 20 U.S. patents.

In March 2010 - Forward Insights announced imminent availability of a new report - SSD Innovations ($4,499) - which explores key innovations to improve the performance and lifetime of SSDs.

It focuses on innovative solutions from major industry players such as FusionIO, Intel, Pliant, Sandforce, SanDisk and STEC for improving the performance, endurance and reliability of SSDs. An exploration of the evolution of application requirements in computing applications, performance limitations of flash-based storage systems, trends and industry innovations is provided. In addition, innovative SSD architectures incorporating new memory technologies, external power supply and linked chain architectures are investigated as future SSD development directions. ...Table of Contents (pdf), SSD Market Analysts

In November 2010 - Forward Insights was one of the contributers to a new book called - Inside NAND Flash Memories.

How big was the thinking in this SSD's design?

Does size really does matter in SSD design?

By that I mean how big was the mental map? - not how many inches wide is the SSD.

The novel and the short story both have their place in literature and the pages look exactly the same. But you know from experience which works best in different situations and why.

When it comes to SSDs - Big versus Small SSD architecture - is something which was in the designer's mind. Even if they didn't think about it that way at the time.

click to read the article - Big versus Small SSD architectures

For designers, integrators, end users and investors alike - understanding what follows from these simple choices predicts a lot of important consequences. ...read the article

recent SSD articles on StorageSearch.com

HA SSDs - is a new article and directory about fault tolerant enterprise SSD systems.

Who's who in SSD? - every few days on our home page you'll see a different SSD company profiled. In one way that's not new - because I've been doing something similar for the past 15 years. The new bit is you get a market context and my idiosyncratic views about each company - written fresh each time.

2011 SSD market milestones - if you're getting up to speed with the SSD market - lists the most significant products, suppliers and changes which happened last year.

what's unique about FIO's ioDrives? - Which of these options do you prefer? - Speeding up the storage? - or - Speeding up the app? - Find out why the raw numbers - without the narrative - fail to tell the full story.

the New Business Case for SSD ASAPs - SSD ASAPs are 1 of the 6 main SSD product types that will be around in the pure solid state storage datacenter of the future in the 2016 to 2020 timeframe.

if Fusion-io sells more does that mean Violin will sell less? - my analysis of the complex market interchange between the PCIe SSD and FC SAN SSD and IP SSD markets.

will the enterprise SSD market be big enough for all these companies [list] to grow? - I'm often asked that question - although everyone who asks it populates the [list] with their own set of SSD companies.

Can you tell me the best way to SSD Street? - I'm like the Old Woman of the SSD Village who talks to everyone that passes through. No wonder I have a unique perspective. It would be strange if I didn't.

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