Nanochip - circa 2008
Nanochip, Inc. (www.nanochipinc.com)
was formed in 1996 to develop MEMS storage chips for consumer electronic
applications. The company's products address the need for low-power, very
high-capacity, high-performance, non-volatile memory at a price very competitive
in consumer markets. Nanochip is a private company headquartered in Fremont,
Calif.
see also:-
Nanochip
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
who's who in SSD? - Nanochip
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- February 2010
After 14 years of not quite getting around to
developing a product - Nanochip has
disappeared off the
web.
earlier comments:- January 2008
I'm used to
waiting years between the time I first mention a company on these pages to the
time that their first product apears.
Nanochip is a good example. The company was founded in 1996 and was
listed here in 2001 - but are now saying (in Jan 2008) they don't expect to
sample their first commercial products till 2009. That's a 13 year gestation
period.
Nanochip says it "is developing a new class of
ultra-high-capacity storage chips enabling the storage of tens of gigabytes of
data per chip ...at a substantially lower cost compared with
flash memory solutions"
Although
the company looks and talks like a chipmaker - it aims to compete head to head
in the solid state disk
market and I predict it will have to design make and market demonstration SSDs
in order to prove its concept to the oems it hopes will use its technology, or
license it or (more likely)
acquire the company.
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| 10+ years of "MRAM
will soon replace flash" |
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.
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The article -
SSD's past phantom
demons explores the latent market threats which hovered around the flash SSD
market in the past 10 years. They seemed real and solid enough at the time. | | | | |
