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Silicon Motion is an innovative technology company that
designs, develops, and markets high performance, low-power semiconductor
solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market. We have three major
product lines: mobile storage, mobile communications, and multimedia SoCs. Our
mobile storage business is composed of microcontrollers used in NAND flash
memory storage products such as flash memory cards, USB flash drives, SSDs,
embedded flash applications, and card readers. Our mobile communications
business is composed of mobile TV tuners, CDMA RF ICs, and electronic toll
collection RF ICs. Our multimedia SoCs business is composed of products that
support MP3 players, PC cameras, and embedded graphics applications.
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Silicon
Motion - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- Silicon Motion already ships controllers for 3 bit per
cell flash, and says its SSD controllers will be ready to work with 20nm NAND
flash that is expected to be available in the 2nd half 2010.
Silicon Motion milestones from recent
SSD Market
History
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
February 2010 -
Silicon Motion
announced that its SSD
controller shipments increased
over
50% year-on-year - in the most recent quarter and now account for
almost 10% of its ($87 million annual) corporate revenue.
The
company said - that the vast majority of controllers that are shipping are for
40nm and 30nm NAND flash and they are on track to deliver controllers for 20nm
NAND flash that is expected to be available in the 2nd half 2010. In the 4th
quarter 2009 the company also began shipping 3-bits per cell MLC controllers. |
