SK Hynix, Inc., a world-leading producer of NAND flash solutions, is announcing development of a UFS (Universal Flash Storage) 2.0 solution that is based on their own 16nm NAND Flash memory, as well as a proprietary controller and in-house firmware. This new UFS 2.0 solution offers a groundbreaking increase in performance, enabling the High-Speed Gear 3 Interface (up to 5.8 …
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Silicon Motion SM2256 Controller with Samsung TLC NAND Review
Controllers are the heart and soul of every SSD. Without one, an SSD would be a useless PCB with some components slapped on it. It is responsible for everything from garbage collection and wear leveling to error correction and hardware encryption. In simple terms, all these operations can be quite complicated to implement as well as expensive to develop. This …
Read More »SK Hynix Sued By SanDisk And Toshiba Over Alleged Theft Of Trade Secrets
Toshiba and Sandisk have filed separate lawsuits seeking damages from SK Hynix, and have alleged that the company has profited from the theft of data relating to NAND flash memory technology. Toshiba and SanDisk have been partners for a number of years on the production of flash memory chip technology for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Toshiba currently …
Read More »Large Fire At SK Hynix Fab Facility In China — Could Drive Up Both DRAM And NAND Prices
SK Hynix Inc., one of the top global producers of memory chips (both DRAM and NAND), was forced to suspend operations at its Wuxi, China fabrication facility due to a large fire. Billowing smoke from the fire was visible many miles away. Image source: KitGuru.com The fire reportedly started a bit before 4:00 pm local time while equipment was being …
Read More »Flash Memory Summit 2013 Show Preview – Exclusive Pre-Show Piks!
As you can see by this shot, the wrappings aren’t even off of the Flash Memory Summit 2013 display case yet and we have some great shots to give a bit of an idea what we are in for this year. Get ready for it folks because the world of flash technology is about to explode! Here are a …
Read More »Hynix Acquires Link_A_Media Devices
Korean semiconductor fabricator SK Hynix has announced a deal to acquire California’s Link_A_Media Devices. Hynix manufactures NAND flash memory for SSDs and mobile applications in addition to other memory and semiconductor products. Hynix is the second largest memory products manufacturer by revenue behind fellow Korean firm Samsung. Back at Computex, Corsair announced announced a new line of high performance SATA III …
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