Memory
TCP transport support for shared accelerated storage software
Toshiba Memory Europe has announced that its KumoScale shared accelerated storage software now supports TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) transport in its 3.9 production release. By leveraging TCP, the most widely-used and trusted networking protocol in today’s enterprise and cloud data centres, KumoScale software enables NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) to be deployed over existing Ethernet networks, opening opportunities for broader N...
Maximum reliability of 3D NAND flash-based storage systems
With the launch of Hyperstone’s latest X1 low-power SSD controller comes the release of Hyperstone’s newest technology, FlashXE eXtended Endurance. FlashXE is a feature set that comprises of extensive calibration, error correction recovery, error avoidance and refresh mechanisms in order to ensure maximum reliability of NAND flash-based storage systems.
VMware vSAN certification for PM5 series of enterprise SAS SSDs
Toshiba Memory Europe has announced that the newly released PM5 Series of 12Gb/s enterprise SAS SSDs has earned VMware vSAN 6.7 certification, enabling these flash-based storage devices to be shared across connected hosts in a VMware vSphere cluster. With vSAN 6.7 certification, users can pool PM5 Series SSDs together in a single, distributed, shared data store.
Embedded flash memory products designed for automotive applications
Toshiba Memory has announced that it has begun sampling new Automotive UFS JEDEC Version 2.1 embedded memory solutions. The company’s Automotive UFS supports a wide temperature range (-40°C to +105°C), meets AEC-Q100 Grade2 requirements and offers the enhanced reliability required by various automotive applications. The lineup consists of four capacities: 32, 64, 128, and 256GB.
Slimline SSD outperforms SATA models
Western Digital is accelerating the NVMe transition of value-PC storage by adding an NVMe model to its WD Blue solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio, the WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD. The new SSD delivers three times the performance of its SATA counterpart.
Low power SRAM customises memory for artificial intelligence
sureCore's new SureFit SRAM customisation service has delivered low power high capacity SRAM subsystems implemented in advanced FinFET processes to Tier-1 players in the demanding imaging, artificial intelligence and machine learning markets.
Memory products announced to support IIoT applications
SMART Modular Technologies has announced its exact fit memory support for IIoT applications. Compared to the consumer-oriented IoT, IIoT is distinct as its applications have specific memory requirements with applications that need memory-intensive analytic capabilities. IIoT includes new applications like Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that will be used in industrial settings for predictive maintenance, embedded security, automation ...
New solution for storing high volume data cost efficiently
Toshiba Memory Europe has announced a range of four new JEDEC e-MMC (Embedded MultiMediaCard) Ver. 5.1 compliant embedded flash memory products for consumer applications. The new products integrate Toshiba Memory’s 15nm BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and a controller in a single package. All of the new products support the command queuing and secure write protection functions, specified as an option in the standard.
Accelerating delivery of advanced 3D flash memory devices
Cadence Design Systems announced that Toshiba Memory Corporation has successfully used the Cadence CMP Process Optimiser, a model calibration and prediction tool that accurately simulates multi-layer thickness and topography variability for the entire layer stack, to accelerate the delivery of its advanced 3D flash memory devices. With the Cadence solution in place, Toshiba Memory Corporation achieved 95.7% accuracy to silicon.
NVMe SSD portfolio targets cloud data centres
The availability of the XD5 Series NVMe SSD platform in a 2.5” low-profile form factor that is optimised for low-latency and performance consistency in read-intensive workloads, has been announced by Toshiba Memory Europe. Developed for both data centre and cloud environments, the new 2.5” form factor XD5 Series is suited for NoSQL databases, large-scale-out data mining and analysis, and streaming applications.