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Spansion (Nasdaq: SPSN - News) is a leading Flash memory
solutions provider, dedicated to enabling, storing and protecting digital
content in wireless, automotive, networking and consumer electronics
applications. Spansion, previously a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu, is the
largest company in the world dedicated exclusively to designing, developing,
manufacturing, marketing, selling and licensing Flash memory solutions. For more
information, visit http://www.spansion.com.
- editor's comments:- in November 2008 -
Spansion filed a
multibillion dollar patent infringement suit with the ITC against
Samsung related to
flash memory IP.
In March 2009 - Spansion filed a voluntary
petition for reorganization under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
see
also:- gone away storage
companies
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... |
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And here's another thing to
worry about...
The enterprise flash SSDs which you benchmarked
yourself - may surprise you by running much slower when deployed in
your own applications due to common "halo" errors which are implicit
in the set ups of many performance test suites which were originally designed
for HDDs. ...read
the article | | |
