Microchip Technology's SST subsidiary is a leading provider of embedded Flash
technology. SST develops, designs, licenses and markets a diversified range of
proprietary and patented SuperFlash memory technology solutions for the
consumer, industrial, automotive and Internet of Things (IoT) markets. SST was
founded in 1989, went public in 1995 (NASDAQ: SSTI), and was acquired by
Microchip in April 2010. SST is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip, and
is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit the SST Web
site at www.sst.com.
See also:-
SST
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
editor's comments:- SST makes
(NOR) flash memory and
controllers and is no longer an SSD company. But its products do have
applications in SSD and embedded memory systems.
SST summary from
SSD market
history
SST entered the
BGA SSD market in
July 2000 but
exited the SSD market in
April 2010 -
when it sold its SSD product line to a new startup founded by SST's founder -
called Greenliant
Systems.
And also in the same month - April 2010 - SST was
acquired by Microchip Technology.
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| "If you've
ever watched the movie Black Hawk Down - there's a memorable scene in which the
2nd chopper gets hit by an RPG. It's like that in SSDs..." |
| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss | | |
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| "In July 2000
- Silicon Storage Technology launched a flash memory-based
ATA-Disk Chip family packaged in a 32-pin DIP package with upto 64MB
capacity as a replacement for conventional IDE hard disk drives." |
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| UMC offers 40nm SuperFlash
from SST |
Editor:- December 21, 2017 -
UMC (a leading semiconductor foundry)
today announced
the availability of the company’s 40nm process platform that incorporates
SST's
embedded SuperFlash non-volatile memory.
The newly available 40nm SST
process features a >20% reduction in eFlash cell size and 20-30% macro area
over UMC’s mass production 55nm SST technology.
Editor's
comments:- for many of you who don't struggle with the temperature constraints
of real electronics systems you might glance at "40nm" and think -
what's so great about that? When 1Xnm has been the flag waving geometry for
nand flash for some time.
SuperFlash is NOR. And UMC says its robust
SST process performs according to JEDEC standards, with 100k endurance and more
than 10 years of data retention at 85C and an operating-temperature range of
-40C to 125C. |
See also:-
military SSDs
optimizing
CPUs for use with SSDs
this
is not your Grandfather's industrial SSD market | | |
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| SST
qualifies SuperFlash on mixed signal platform |
Editor:- July 12,
2016 - SST
today
announced
qualification and availability of its low-mask-count embedded
SuperFlash NOR
NVM on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 130 nm
BCDLite
advanced analog, mixed-signal and RF technology platform.
SST's
embedded SuperFlash memory solution requires the addition of only 4 masking
steps to enable cost-effective, high-endurance embedded flash for demanding
battery-powered applications such as drones, intelligent motor control, and
normally-off mobile computing. | | |
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