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storage glue chips
RAM in an SSD context
DRAM's
indeterminate latencies
the Top SSD Companies in
Q1 2018 - Rambus ranked #20
Rambus's
in-memory databases blog
Rambus
- mentions on StorageSearch.com
why's Intel so
infatuated with 3DXP? - and other memoryfication heresies
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| yes to new
processing/storage architectures
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Editor:- December 12, 2017 - NGD Systems (formerly
called NxGn Data) today published the results of a survey on the need for
Intelligence storage for applications with large data sets.
The
purpose of the study was to gauge whether the movement of large data sets across
existing processing and storage architectures negatively impacts the cost and
usability of the data by applications.
The results of the survey -
Smart
Storage Survey Report (pdf) - conducted by G2M
Research for NGD - show that existing compute and storage architectures
adversely impact the performance and cost of these applications, and that new
architectures are needed if these applications are to continue to scale in size
and capabilities.
NGD has been a pioneer of in-situ processing and
their current approach is to leverage ARM processing cores within the
SSD controller
(although other types of implementation and tiering within the memory/ storage
assets have been reported in these news pages from other researchers and
developers).
Among other things the survey report says...
"Since
the advent of digital computers, the IT industry has regularly oscillated
between convergence and disaggregation, as well as how specific functionality
has been packaged and delivered to those who use it. The movement of processing
capabilities into storage media, as represented by in-situ processing in SSDs,
represents a new evolutionary path in IT that has been made possible by the
solid-state nature of SSDs." ...read
the article pdf)
Editor's comments:- 3 years ago I listed "in-situ
SSD processing" as #1 of the
12 key
SSD ideas which changed in 2014.
The implementations of this new
architectural idea has had to adapt pragmatically to changes in the SSD market -
notably the emergence of standards like NVMe and associated fabrics - but also
to other technologies which have been introduced to enable
memory
systems to work better such as
NVDIMMs, tiering
software and rethinking the relative size and roles of memory compared to local
storage (cloud
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| If you could go back in
time and take with you - in the custom DeLorean pickup - a factory full of
modern memory chips and SSDs (along with backwards compatible adapters) what
real impact would that have? Now - how about if you could come back to 2018
from the future? This thought experiment and analysis explains why we're seeing
new memory accelerators which don't even look like memories. |
are we ready for
infinitely faster RAM?
(and what would it be worth) | | |
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| Back in the early 1990s it
was not uncommon to hear about specialist server companies which were using
peltier effect heat sinks to refrigerate the fastest workstation processors so
that they could be run at higher clock speeds... One of the biggest bottlenecks
in the past decade has been RAM architecture and DRAM implementation itself.
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| cool runnings - Rambus
to coach faster DRAM (April 2017) | | |
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| Rambus and Xilinx partner
on FPGA in DRAM array technology |
Editor:- October 4, 2016 - Rambus today
announced
a license agreement with Xilinx
that covers Rambus patented memory controller, SerDes and security technologies.
Rambus is also exploring the use of Xilinx FPGAs in its
Smart
Data Acceleration research program. The SDA - powered by an FPGA paired
with 24 DIMMS - offers high DRAM memory densities and has potential uses as a
CPU offload agent (in-situ
memory computing). | | |
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| Tezzaron expects to ship
ReRAM SSDs in 2016 |
| Editor:- January 23, 2015 -
Tezzaron Semiconductor
today
announced
it will use Rambus's
ReRAM technology in forthcoming storage-class 3D memory devices for
military, aerospace
and commercial applications. The first of these designs is scheduled for
production in 2016. | | |
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| Rambus aims
at replacement for flash SSDs |
Editor:- February 13, 2012 - Rambus recently
announced
it has acquired Unity
Semiconductor for an aggregate of $35 million in cash.
As
part of this acquisition, the Unity team members have joined Rambus to continue
developing innovations and solutions for next-generation
non-volatile
memory.
With 9 years of development history, Unity's memory
technology, CMOx, has been
designed to accelerate the commercialization of the Terabit generation of
non-volatile memories. Unity expects that devices using CMOx cell technology
will (one day)
achieve higher density, faster performance, lower manufacturing costs and
greater data
reliability than NAND Flash.
"At Rambus, we are creating
disruptive technologies to enable future electronic products," said Sharon Holt,
senior VP and GM of the Semiconductor Business Group at Rambus. "With the
addition of Unity, we can develop non-volatile memory solutions that will
advance semiconductor scaling beyond the limits of today's NAND technology. This
will enable new memory architectures that help meet ever-increasing consumer
demands." | | |
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