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Hyperstone

Hyperstone, founded in 1990, and based in Konstanz, Germany, is a fabless semiconductor and microprocessor design company whose products include SSD controllers optimized for low power applications. 		Hyperstone logo - click for more info about the company's SSD controllers
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Together with subsidiaries in Taiwan, USA and with other worldwide partners, Hyperstone serves a global customer base. Hyperstone is a member of the CML Microsystems Plc group, traded on the London Stock Exchange. The group currently consists of 8 subsidiaries and has over 170 employees.

Hyperstone research and development is based in Germany and Taiwan. Industry-leading partners provide world-class wafer subcontracting, packaging, and testing services. Hyperstone's success is based on its proprietary 32-Bit RISC processor, optimized for flash handling applications. Hyperstone's products include microcontrollers for Solid State Disks (SSD), Disk-on-Module (DoM), Disk-on-Board (DoB), embedded Flash solutions such as eMMC, and Flash cards such as CF, SD & microSD. Flash controller firmware is supplied complementary to the controllers and customized for each flash and application. Hyperstone is one of the pioneers in the flash memory controller business and owns several patents for flash handling, including wear leveling algorithms and microprocessor design...
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Hyperstone - Corporate HQ
Line-Eid-Strasse 3
78467 Konstanz
Germany
url:- http://www.hyperstone.com

Hyperstone sales and distributors worldwide
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see also:- Hyperstone - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com

  • editor's comments:- August 2011 - among other things - Hyperstone designs SSD controllers for industiral and embedded SSDs for use in low power applications. The company's patented architecture includes skinny RAM cache SSD principles to obviate the need for external RAM - and the design includes strong protection against data corruption from sudden power loss.

    For competing suppliers try taking a look at the SSD controller directory.
Hyperstone mentions in recent SSD market history

In February 2009 - Hyperstone launched a controller chip for oems designing industrial grade CF compatible SSDs. The F4 provides safe power-fail handling, proven error detection and correction and static wear leveling. Data transfer rate to the attached flash memory array (16 chips) is upto 80MB/s. Sustained R/W via the CF interface is upto 50MB/s and 40MB/s respectively. Alternatively oems can add a SATA bridge, or RAID controller for other markets.

In October 2010 - Hyperstone announced that Toshiba (Europe) has agreed to provide the company with a variety of ASIC design and manufacturing services.

New SSD controllers based on Toshiba semiconductor process technology will sample in Q1, 2011.

In August 2011 - Hyperstone introduced their new A2 family of SSD controllers - designed to enable physically small, very low power consumption industrial SATA skinny flash SSDs.

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