LSI SandForce SF-2000 Flash Storage Processors help maximize reliability and accelerate performance of industry’s most advanced flash media
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COMPUTEX 2012, TAIPEI, TAIWAN, June 4, 2012 – LSI Corporation (NYSE:
LSI) today announced several demonstrations of its award-winning SandForce®
SF-2000 Flash Storage Processors (FSPs) using Toshiba 19nm and Intel 20nm
NAND flash memory, the most advanced flash memory technology currently
available for solid state drive (SSD) applications. Interactive demonstrations can
be seen at the Computex Taipei 2012 exposition taking place this week in Taipei,
Taiwan.
LSI SandForce FSPs are designed to provide best-in-class performance,
reliability, endurance and power efficiency for NAND flash-based SSDs. With
proven products available today, LSI offers SSD manufacturers a time-to-
market advantage in building more affordable SSDs, helping to accelerate broad
adoption of flash storage for cloud computing, enterprise and client applications.
Shipments of SSDs in client and enterprise markets are expected to exceed
100 million units in 2015, representing a 56 percent growth rate over 2011
shipments.(1)
“SSD users want to benefit from the significant cost advantages of the leading
flash processes, but most SSD controllers can't support the complexities of the
most advanced chips," said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis. "By
supporting today's smallest NAND processes, LSI provides OEMs and end users
access to the most cost-effective deployment of flash memory in primary and I/O-
intensive data storage workloads across cloud-computing, enterprise and client
applications.”
As flash memory geometries continue to shrink, the need to incorporate best-in-
to continue.”
To meet customers’ reliability and endurance requirements for flash devices
using smaller silicon geometries, LSI SandForce FSPs feature DuraClass®
advanced NAND flash management technology.
DuraClass management features include:
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DuraWrite™: optimizes the number of flash program cycles to effectively
extend flash-rated endurance.
RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements): delivers
orders-of-magnitude improvement in drive reliability, resulting in RAID-like
protection and recovery from a single-drive solution.
Advanced Wear Leveling and Monitoring: optimized wear-leveling
algorithms, further extending flash endurance.
Recycler: intelligently performs “garbage collection” to erase invalid data
while minimizing the impact on flash endurance.
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LSI technology demonstrations will be available in LSI suites 1037 and 1038
at the Grand Hyatt Taipei. For more informance on LSI SandForce FSPs, visit:
http://www.lsi.com/sandforce.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage
and networking in data centers, mobile networks and client computing. Our technology is the
intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in solutions created in
collaboration with our partners. More information is available at http://www.lsi.com.
1. IDC, “IDC WW SSD 2011-2015 Forecast Update”, March 2012.
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