SSD news - February
2010, week 2 |
Micron acquires NOR flash
leader
Editor:- February 9, 2010 - Micron today
announced
an agreement to acquire
privately held Numonyx
in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $1.3 billion.
This
strengthens Micron's position as one of the world's leading memory companies,
with a broad portfolio of
DRAM,
NAND and NOR memory
products.
Analyst comment:- from Objective Analysis
- "By acquiring Numonyx, Micron is buying the current leader in the NOR
flash market - which has been a difficult one for nearly all participants.
Leaders Numonyx and Spansion
have suffered losses for several years, with Spansion recently turning a profit
through a strategy largely focused upon markets for low-density parts used by
markets outside of cell handsets, the largest consumer of NOR flash. Micron
itself participated in NOR starting in the late 1990s, but abandoned this effort
in 2006."
See also:-
3 things that could have
killed flash SSDs
SSD Market Projections - from Denali & Gartner
Editor:-
February 9, 2010 - Denali
Software published an article -
the
Evolving Enterprise SSD - which comments on detailed SSD market size
predictions from Gartner
related to SSD form factors and interfaces.
If you look at the curves
related to form factors - you can infer that StorageSearch.com's readers are
about 3 to 4 years ahead of the market in their search volume.
Another
way of looking at it is that our readers have always been ahead of the SSD
market adoption curve - and have been
historically
and statistically significant in shaping the SSD market penetration curves by
their actions in either designing SSDs or buying them.
See
also:-
Can you
trust SSD market data?
Foremay samples 200K IOPS class PCIe SSD Cards
Editor:-
February 8, 2010 -
Foremay is
sampling
its EC188 D-series 2nd generation
fast
PCIe SSDs with
capacity upto 4TB (MLC)
and 1TB (SLC).
The new SSDs deliver sequential speeds up to 1.6
GB/s for reading and 1.5 GB/s for writing, and R/W IOPS up to 200K/180K.
"IOPS is one of
the major pain points to be addressed in the deployment of today's high-end and
mission-critical servers and workstations," said Dr. Jack Winters,
Foremay's CTO and cofounder. "We hope that our new EC188 D-series PCIe
SSDs, with greater than 100K IOPS and more than 1GB/s bandwidth, can help solve
problems in the majority of those computing applications where IOPS or speed is
the bottleneck."
Editor's comments:- Foremay's new PCIe
SSDs aim at the same kind of customers who currently buy from
Fusion-io and
Texas Memory Systems
both of whom have been shipping this type of product for over a year
already. Customer qualification by OS and application type is a prerequisite
to sales in this part of the market. Foremay will have to be aggressive
on price to get volume customers interested enough to test its products. |
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