ScaleFlux shows off third generation computational storage
Chinese and US computational storage developer ScaleFlux has shown its CSD 3000 at the Flash Memory Summit and launched a channel program.
This is a PCIe 4 SSD with TLC...
Micron, Western Digital: US should fund memory research
Micron and Western Digital (WD) want some of the $280 billion US CHIPS and Science Act funding to go towards semiconductor research for memory-centric computing.
Update. WD replied with a...
Flash Memory Summit thematic extraction
Some three thousand people from the flash and SSD supply industry gratefully met at the Flash Memory Summit 2022 in the Santa Clara convention Centre this week – the...
YMTC’s empty Xtacking 3 announcement
YMTC unveiled its X3-9070 TLC 3D NAND flash at this week's Flash Memory Summit and would not reveal any substantive details about it – at all.
X3-9070 flash uses YMTC's...
Samsung lays a clutch of tasty flash eggs at FMS 2022
Flash market leader Samsung excelled itself at the FMS 2022 event this week, showing a near blizzard of new products: a petabyte-scale SSD, a memory-semantic SSD, a SmartSSD, and...
Kioxia updates XL-FLASH storage-class memory with MLC tier
Kioxia exhibited second-generation storage class memory flash at the FMS 2022 event in Santa Clara, with a lower cost per GB than gen 1.
Update. Active plane clarification added to...
Western Digital disk drive revenues spin down in latest quarter, warns outlook is worse
Western Digital’s latest quarterly revenues dropped 8 percent year-on-year due to falling PC and consumer disk drive purchases - and the storage giant is forecasting 26.7 percent weaker revenues...
MAID and WORM PLC flash archive
Seeing a 128TB Samsung SSD using QLC (4bits/cell) flash got me thinking abut a PLC (5bits/cell) version which could have a 150TB or so capacity. Imagine 32 of these...
Compute this: NGD computational storage startup loses all three founders in one go
NGD has run into hard times, with founders leaving and a source mentioning a fire sale as a possibility.
NGD builds the Newport line of NVMe flash storage drives, with...
SK hynix’s 238-layer flash gets nominal 6 layer advantage over Micron and YMTC
SK hynix is sampling its 238-layer NAND, shipping 512Gbit chips organised in TLC (3bits/cell) mode to potential customers.
This is 35 percent more layers than its existing 176-layer product. The...
Solidigm client SSD fresh out of the box for longer
Solidigm has launched an updated and affordable gumstick-format client/gaming SSD with data-aware caching that preserves consistent fresh-out-of-the-box performance.
Update; pricing added at end of article. August 12, 2022.
The P41 Plus...
Phison and Seagate unveil super high performance stats for their PCIe 4 SSD
A combined Phison-Seagate X1 SSD effort is reporting some impressive numbers that would make it the highest-performing standard 4-lane PCIe 4 we have encountered.
HDD manufacturer and Nytro SSD supplier...