Indilinx prepares for future SSDs

MILPITAS, USA: Indilinx, a fabless semiconductor company, has unveiled Barefoot, its high-performing solid state drive (SSD) controller with 90nm process technology.

The company also made a presentation about “High Performance SSD and Benefit for Server Applications” at the FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT in Santa Clara, California, from August 12-14.

Barefoot 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 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 co-operation 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 is virtually the first controller that fully utilizes SATA 2 interface, lagging HDD about three 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 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 HLNANDTM 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.

Indilinx, backed by Softbank Ventures Korea, is a fabless semiconductor company specialized in SSD controller and systems.