Monthly Memory & Flash Market Watch

Western Digital and Ingrasys establish long-term collaboration

• The 2 firms aim to deliver a new Top-of-Rack (TOR) switch with embedded storage, which provides distributed storage at the network edge for lower latency storage access, reducing the need for separate storage networks and avoiding trips to centralized storage arrays.

Kioxia sampling enterprise CM9 series PCIe 5.0 NVMe up to 61.44TB 2.5-inch and E3.S SSD

• This series is the 1st enterprise SSD built with Kioxia’s BiCS8 3D TLC flash memory, delivering performance improvements of up to approximately 65% in random write, 55% in random read, and 95% in sequential write compared to the previous-gen. In addition, performance/watt gains realized include 55% better sequential read and 75% better sequential write efficiency.

SK hynix develops UFS 4.1 solution based on 321-high NAND

• With an increase in demand for on-device AI leading to greater importance of the balance between computation capabilities and battery efficiency of a device, the mobile market is now requiring thinness and low power from a mobile device.

• The latest product comes with a 7% improvement in power efficiency, compared with the previous-gen based on 238-high NAND and a slimmer 0.85mm thickness, down from 1mm before, to fit into a ultra-slim smartphone.