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Founded in 1989, Macronix International Co., Ltd. (TSEC: 2337, NASDAQ: MXICY) is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan and is one of the top eight world-class manufacturers of the Non-Volatile memory semiconductors. Macronix produces Flash and Mask ROM devices at its fabrication facilities in Taiwan utilizing design geometries down to 0.13 micron. All Macronix fabs and assembly locations are certified to the industry’s quality and environmental standards. Macronix has worldwide offices in Belgium, Singapore, China, Japan, and the United States. For more information about Macronix, visit: www.macronix.com.

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Increasing Flash Solid State Disk Reliability - article by SiliconSystems

Solid state disks, based on flash technology, have greatly improved in performance in recent years and now compete head to head with RAM based accelerator systems. Flash also has significant advatanges in servers compared to RAM SSDs due to low power consumption.

But if you think that all solid state disks which use flash are equally reliable and enduring then think again.

That's a bit like saying that a Mercedes 300SL sports coupe is as tough as a Tiger tank because both were made in Germany and both are built out of metal. But as Oddball (Donald Sutherland) says in the movie Kelly's Heroes "I ain't messing with no Tigers."

This article by SiliconSystems, shows how their patented architecture cleverly manages the wear out mechanisms inherent in all flash media to deliver a disk lifetime that is about 4 times greater than of other enterprise flash products and upto 100 times greater than intrinsic flash memory. ...read the article, ...SiliconSystems profile, Solid state disks

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