CRN Network, August 17, 2010, 1000 hrs
Seagate Technology and Samsung have recently entered into a joint development and licensing agreement. They will jointly develop and cross-license controller technologies for solid state drive (SSD) storage devices to attain the high levels of performance, reliability and endurance demanded by enterprise storage applications.
“We are pleased to be jointly developing a high-performance SSD controller with Seagate for the enterprise storage market,” said Dr Changhyun Kim, Senior Vice President and Samsung Fellow, Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering, Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics. “Our green memory solution is designed to enable more energy-efficient server applications, which is expected to increase the use of NAND-based SSD storage in enterprise applications.”
The controller will be built on the existing SSD capabilities of each company—combining Seagate’s leadership in enterprise storage technology with Samsung’s flash memory technology specific to 30nm-class MLC NAND—and will be utilized in Seagate’s enterprise-class SSDs.
“Seagate has long recognized that solid state technology has an important role to play in the comprehensive solutions the storage industry will deliver today and in the future, particularly in the enterprise market,” said Steve Luczo, Chairman, President and CEO, Seagate. “The agreement with Samsung will help us bring a compelling set of SSD innovations to the enterprise storage market, with benefits that range from enhanced performance, endurance and reliability to cost and capacity improvements. Overall, this agreement with Samsung strengthens our SSD solutions strategy, and positions Seagate well as global demand for storage continues on its strong growth path.” |