Silicon Motion is the global leader in supplying NAND flash controllers
for solid state storage devices and the merchant leader in supplying SSD
controllers. We have the broadest portfolio of controller technologies and our
controllers are widely used in embedded storage products such as SSDs and eMMCs,
which are found in smartphones, PCs, commercial and industrial applications. We
ship over 750 million NAND controllers annually and have shipped over five
billion NAND controllers in the last ten years, more than any other company in
the world. We also supply specialized high-performance hyperscale data center
and industrial SSD solutions. Our customers include most of the NAND flash
vendors, storage device module makers, and leading OEMs. For further
information on Silicon Motion, visit us at www.siliconmotion.com. |
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editor's comments:- Silicon Motion is a
leading supplier of SSD controllers and embedded SSDs. The company entered the
Top SSD Companies Lists
in Q1 2017. |
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Iin June 2008 -
Silicon Motion
announced a new family of flash
SSD controllers which
enable oems to mix and match MLC and SLC chips in the same drive.
The
controller can analyze the incoming files from the host and intelligently move
frequently accessed data to SLC NAND and non-frequently accessed data to MLC
NAND. With this innovative hybrid architecture, the SSD system cost is
significantly reduced to a level comparable to a pure MLC-based SSD, while
endurance is significantly enhanced and comparable to a pure SLC-based SSD.
In
April 2010
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in its
financial report Silicon
Motion's President and CEO, Wallace Kou said - " The NAND flash
industry has been increasing the output of 3 bits per cell MLC because this type
of technology is a capital efficient way for NAND flash manufacturers to
increase capacity without significant capital expenditure. These new 3 bits per
cell MLC NAND flash are very difficult to manage well and requires significant
advanced controller technologies. Our clear leadership in 3 bits per cell
controller technology validates our strategy of investing in cutting edge R&D
in order to bring new products to market ahead of our competitors. ...Our SSD
controller shipment growth (in the past quarter) was flat sequentially, but
grew almost 300% compared to a year ago, and revenue from these products
continues to account for almost 10% of our overall corporate revenue."
In
April 2015
- Silicon Motion
said it would acquire Shannon
Systems for a total purchase price of $57.5 million. (For more like
this see a list of SSD
company acquisitions from 2000 to 2016.) |
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| Silicon Motion's new mobile
devices TLC SSD controller |
Editor:- February 21, 2013 -
Silicon Motion
announced imminent sampling of a new
SSD
controller - for consumer handheld products.
The SM2703 is a
single-channel, SD 3.0 UHS-I (Ultra High Speed Phase I) card controller with
superior support for the vast majority of NAND flash, including 2y-nm, 1x-nm and
1y-nm TLC and MLC which delivers up to 95MB/s and enables full HD video
recording capability by digital cameras, smartphones and other mobile devices on
both Class 4 and Class 6 SD flash memory cards using cost-effective TLC NAND
flash.
"We've already had tremendous success in the UHS-I
market since we introduced our first UHS-I controller 2 years ago - which was
used by most of the world's leading flash card brands" said Wallace Kou,
President and CEO of Silicon Motion. | | |
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| industrial
single chip PCIe NVMe SSDs from Silicon Motion |
Editor:- February 27, 2018 -
Silicon Motion
today announced
production of 2 new industrial grade single chip PCIe NVMe SSDs.
- SM689 supports PCIe Gen 3x4 interface in 16mm x 20mm
- SM681 supports PCI Gen 3x2 interface in 11.5mm x 13mm
Both
products can support multiple capacity configurations ranging from 16GB to 256GB
and include enterprise-grade advanced data integrity and reliability
capabilities using Silicon Motion's proprietary end-to-end data protection, ECC
and data caching technologies.
Data integrity features include
end-to-end data path protection, which applies ECC to the SSD's SRAM and DRAM
buffers as well as to the primary NAND Flash memory array.
who makes single chip SSDs?
say
farewell to reassuringly boring industrial SSDs | | |
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| Silicon Motion has SD 5.1
flash controller |
Editor:- November 21, 2016 -
Silicon Motion
today announced
the "world's first merchant SD 5.1 controller solution."
"Android
Smartphone shipments accounted for more than 85% of the worldwide market share,
and 70% to 80% of these phones have microSD slots," said Nelson Duann,
Senior VP of Product Marketing at Silicon Motion, "With the
SM2703
controller (2000 / 650 random R/W IOPS on a single TLC die) now supporting
SD 5.1, our partners can rapidly bring to market a new generation of SD cards to
enable a much better user experience and extend the usability of the Android
smartphones." | | |
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| Silicon Motion's FerriSSDs |
Editor:- March 23, 2014 -
FerriSSD (pdf) from
Silicon Motion
- is a PATA
SSD on a chip (BGA)
which I learned about from Jonathan Bruce
- who suggested it for my article -
Inanimate Power,
Speed and Strength Metaphors in SSD brands - because - he said - the "Ferri"
prefix means "strong or durable".
...Later:- March
31, 2014 - in the same product family - Silicon Motion is now sampling a
high performance 6Gb/s SATA FerriSSD - the SM659 (8GB to 64GB capacity, with
regular cache,
80,000 random IOPs, and 30K Program/Erase (P/E) cycles) - which fits into a
90-ball BGA package measuring just 16x20x2mm. | | |
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