SandForce Shows off 24nm Toshiba MLC Flash for SSDs

By Nathan Kirsch

SandForce today announced the first public demonstration of its SSD Processors working in concert with the industrys most aggressive NAND flash family for SSD applications — 24 nanometer (nm) Multi-level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash from Toshiba. This product combination enables SandForce Driven SSD manufacturers to produce more affordable SSD products which will further accelerate adoption in the enterprise, client, and industrial computing markets that demand optimized reliability, performance, and power efficiency. Industry analyst Gartner (May 2011 forecast) reports SSD unit shipments in the three target markets will surpass 66 million units in 2014 — an astounding 61% compound annual growth rate from 2010 shipments. To date, SandForce has shipped well over 2 million SSD Processors in 18 months.

SF-2000 series controller

As the principal inventor of NAND Flash memory, Toshiba is constantly evolving this technology to be the highest quality and most cost effective media for SSDs by working closely with innovative companies like SandForce, said Shigeo Ohshima, Technology Executive, Memory Design and Application Engineering, Toshiba Corporation. The SandForce SF-2000 SSD Processor, combined with our new 24nm NAND Flash memory provides an optimal SSD solution to enable accelerated deployment of thin-and-light notebooks as well as mainstream enterprise applications.

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