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Founded in 1989, Macronix International Co., Ltd. is a leading
provider of innovative Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) solutions. Macronix is the
largest worldwide manufacturer of ROM products, and also provides a wide range
of Parallel and Serial NOR Flash products across various densities. These
products are used in vast range of consumer, computing, communications &
networking, and industrial applications. For more information, please visit
the Company web site at http://www.macronix.com
see also:-
Macronix
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com and
Macronix
NOR Flash for the automotive market
- editor's comments:- in June 2010 -
Macronix
announced
research results related to its patented BE SONOS (barrier engineering)
charge-trapping technology which could make terabit NAND flash feasible.
Using 3D stacking, NAND Flash may achieve higher data storage capacity
and effectively lower fabrication cost without relying on advances in
lithography technology. Therefore, some memory manufacturers have invested in 3D
research recently.
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| the flash
SSD story - survival of the fittest? |
The
emerging size of
the flash SSD market as you see it today was by no means inevitable. It owes a
lot to 3 competing storage media competitors which failed to evolve fast enough
in the Darwinian jungle of the storage market in the
past decade.
One of these 3 contenders is definitely on the road to extinction -
but could one of the other 2 still emerge to threaten flash SSDs?
A
recently published article -
SSD's past phantom
demons explores the latent market threats which hovered around the flash SSD
market in the past decade. They seemed real and solid enough at the time. |
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Getting a realistic
perspective of flash SSD's past demons (which seemed very threatening at the
time) may help you better judge the so-called "new" generation of nv
memory contenders - which are also discussed in the article. ...read the article | | | |
| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
negligible. |
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