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Indilinx Prepares for Future SSDs

Posted on: Thursday, 14 August 2008, 09:00 CDT

Indilinx, a fabless semiconductor company, unveiled Barefoot(TM), its high-performing solid state drive (SSD) controller with 90nm process technology, and made a presentation about "High Performance SSD and Benefit for Server Applications" at FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT held in Santa Clara, California from August 12 to 14.

Barefoot(TM) shows the fastest read speed 230MB/s of all the products currently available in the market and supports the capacity up to 512GB with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. Industry experts appreciate the introduction of Barefoot(TM) as a turning point to the times when high-performing SSD with bandwidth of over 200MB/s and random input-output (IO) of 20,000/s into various servers such as on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and a streaming server.

Also, Indilinx and MOSAID co-presented their strategic cooperation in the development of high-performing SSD controller for the next generation DDR type flash memory. Despite the prevalence of SATA 2 interface, previous SSDs didn't fully utilize its speed specs. But Barefoot(TM) is virtually the first controller which fully utilizes SATA 2 interface, lagging HDD about 3 years behind technically. Even further, Indilinx, with MOSAID, is preparing for the 3rd generation of controller for SATA 3 interface, which will provide 600MB/s. "BareFoot(TM) is a Second Generation controller for Flash SSDs that meets the demanding performance requirements of PC and Server applications. This product will also help facilitate the use of new high performance NAND Flash memory such as HLNAND(TM) Flash," said Jin-Ki Kim, Vice President, Research and Development, MOSAID.

Through this summit, Indilinx marked itself as a leading company in SSD storage solution with technical superiority and advanced insight into the future application of SSD as a better storage system.

About Indilinx

Indilinx (www.indilinx.com), backed by Softbank Ventures Korea, is a fabless semiconductor company specialized in SSD controller and systems, and has been accredited for the best technology by many governmental institutions and the industry after its foundation in 2006. The business operation is located in Milpitas, California and the R&D head is in Seongnam, Korea.

PR Contacts

Derek Lee, V.P. of Strategic Planning, derek@indilinx.com

About MOSAID

MOSAID Technologies Inc. is one of the world's leading intellectual property companies. MOSAID develops semiconductor memory technology and licenses patented intellectual property in the areas of semiconductors, and wired and wireless communications systems. MOSAID counts many of the world's largest semiconductor companies among its customers. Founded in 1975, MOSAID is based in Ottawa, Ontario.

About Hyper-Link (HL) NAND Flash

MOSAID's HLNAND Flash is a new architecture and interface for high-performance Flash memory. This unique memory interface dramatically improves the performance of mass storage applications, including SSDs. HLNAND delivers sustained input/output (I/O) bandwidths ten times higher than conventional Flash memory.

Source: Business Wire

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