SK hynix Inc., Korea, is
the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access
Memory chips (DRAM), Flash
memory chips (NAND Flash)
and CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) for a wide range of distinguished customers
globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global
Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further
information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com.
See
also:- Hynix's
client SSD page,
Hynix's enterprise
SSD page
Editor's comments:- - Hynix designs and makes
SSDs for consumer,
industrial and
enterprise
applications and competes in these form factors and interface types:-
SSD on chip (eMMC),
M.2,
2.5",
SATA.
Editor's earlier comments:- SK Hynix is one of the world's
largest memory companies. It was late entering the SSD market - offering no SSD
products at all as late as 2013. Today - in 2017 - the company offers bland
2.5" SATA SSDs for the consumer and enterprise markets. |
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In June 2012 - SK Hynix
announced
it has entered into an agreement to acquire California-based storage solution
company Link_A_Media
Devices
In August 2010 -
Hynix Semiconductor
announced
it has selected Anobit's
SSD controller
technology to operate with its own 20nm class NAND Flash chips for use in a new
SSD design.
In September
2013 - there was a fire at one of
Hynix Semiconductor's
memory plants which made 15% of the world's DRAM chips. But production was not
seriously affected.
In May 2014 -
Hynix acquired
Violin Memory's line of
PCIe SSDs - for $23
million. |
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| 3D nand will face ceiling
of vertical scaling soon |
Editor:- July 28, 2017 - It takes about 5
weeks to process 64 layer by 64 layer 3D nand flash (with 2017 fab
technology) according to a recent
video (11 minutes)
by Sang-Yun Lee,
President & CEO - BeSang
(July 23, 2017) which compares the incremental manufacturing costs to the
company's proposed 3D super nand technology.
Among other things Sang
explains why he thinks the 3D nand bandwaggon will be unable to reduce SSD
storage costs in future vertical scaling generations. He says this roadmap
was - "A mistake by smart people." ...see the video
Editor's
comments:- If San is right with his prognosis on 3D nand - it has ramifications
for the expectations about the costs of SSDs in the next few years.
As
BeSang has been busy with linkedin blog posts and videos promoting the purported
superiority of of 3D super nand and 3D super DRAM I asked the company.
Is Besang looking for flash makers to license the technology? Or
will you make devices of your own?
BeSang told me - "BeSang is a fabless NAND product maker and
doing IP licensing for DRAM and eDRAM.
SK Hynix is the first
licensee of 3D Super-DRAM."
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