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Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is the leader in low power, small form factor, low cost, customizable solutions for a quickly changing connected world. From making smart consumer devices smarter, to enabling intelligent industrial automation, or connecting anything to everything in communications, electronics manufacturers around the world use Lattice's solutions for fast time to market, product innovation, and competitive differentiation. For more information, visit www.latticesemi.com
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who's who in SSD? - Lattice Semiconductor

by Zsolt Kerekes, editor

Lattice Semiconductor has been in the FPGA and programmable logic device business for over 20 years - and so I was aware of the company before - but it hadn't done anything interesting enough to merit a mention in the news pages of StorageSearch.com until March 2015 - when it acquired Silicon Image for approximately $606 million.
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managing the power in enterprise PCIe SSDs
trading dc-dc converter architectures to  suit different capacitor types in SSDs
In a 2012 brochure which describes its integrated power fail chips - Power Failure Protection for SSDs (pdf) - Lattice Semiconductor illustrates the traditional placement and role of big capacitors in enterprise SSD hold up schemes.
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Where are customers going to find the rackspace if they're using those old style, always-on SSDs?

And let's not forget the electrical power.

When you look at the reliability of the always-on SSDs it reminds me about the bad old days of the hard disk drives - when you had to change all the disks every few years
this way to the petabyte SSD (March 2010)
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Here's the real problem for the big companies.

They can lose tens of billions of dollars of revenue by not participating in the SSD market.
Hostage to the fortunes of SSD

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