Solid State Drives are claimed to be the next best thing in the storage business, replacing the traditional HDDs, and despite recently reported issues, the upcoming flash-based storage solution is expected to improve performance and even come with a much more acceptable price tag.
Indilinx, a Korean-based fabless semiconductor company, has announced today that it has completed the development of IDX22, a high-performing Solid State Drive controller, built on a 90nm process technology. Named Barefoot, the product is claimed to provide the fastest read speed compared to all the other solutions currently available on the market.
The company claims that its "Barefoot" SSD controller supports a high capacity of up to 512GB with multi-cell NAND flash and, according to its technical specifications, the new storage device comes with native support for SATA 2.0 interface and a maximum read speed of 230MB/s, 170MB/s with SLC NAND flash, and 200MB/s, 160MB/s with MLC NAND, respectively. One other significant feature is that Barefoot supports various types of flash memory from major flash vendors including Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix and Intel/Micron, which could give INDILINX a competitive edge.
"Such business model has a tremendous meaning to drive manufacturers and PC makers. Free from lock-up of exclusively dedicated SSD controller to a certain flash memory, they can have a buying power over flash vendors by segregating purchase of controller and flash memory. Also, our controller secures consistent performance regardless of a type of flash memory," said David Won, V.P. of Marketing. He also added, "Indilinx is now cooperating with global major systems and drive manufacturers for performance evaluation and business development, and will introduce its demo product at Flash Memory Summit, August 12-14, 2008 in Santa Clara, California. Mass production is scheduled in Q4 of this year."
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