Day 1 - This morning the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) kicked off in earnest in Santa Clara, CA. Another year of record attendance for FMS was capped off by standing room only for all of the NVM Express (NVMe) and PCIe morning sessions. The morning sessions started off with Micron’s Janene Ellefson and Intel’s [...]
A lot has happened with NVM Express (NVMe) since last year’s Flash Memory Summit, the 1.1 specification was released, our first plugfest and the first NVMe PCIe SSD was announced. And while those events are going to be hard to top, 2013’s Flash Memory Summit is the perfect venue to kick off a new and [...]
NVM Express crossed another major milestone last week with the announcement of the Samsung XS1715. The Samsung XS1715 is the first PCIe SSD to offer NVM Express support. Over the last 2 ½ years, it’s been exciting to see how quickly NVM Express has matured. First the 1.0 and 1.1 specifications, this year’s plugfest and [...]
The first Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon) takes place next week from June 10-12 at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Hotel Convention Center and NVM Express (NVMe) will be there. The conference features a session titled NVM Express: Optimizing for PCIe SSD Performance led by Intel's David Akerson and IDT's Peter Onufryk. This Wednesday morning session [...]
The first NVM Express Plugfest was held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) from May 13-16.Companies participating in the Plugfest were Agilent Technologies, Dell Inc., Fastor Systems, Inc., HGST, a Western Digital company, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation., sTec, Inc., Teledyne LeCroy, and Western Digital [...]
Interop Las Vegas, here we come! Interop is a premier event for IT professionals, and the NVM Express Work Group is excited that we will have an exhibitor booth (#426) at the show. The exhibitor booth will showcase demonstrations from Dell, Integrated Device Technology, Intel and SanDisk. These demos will show how NVM Express unlocks [...]
Welcome to our new site. Over the last four years, NMV Express has matured quickly with specifications ratified, development tools and drivers delivered and NVM Express PCIe SSDs expected to launch in 2013. To celebrate, we decided to update our website. The new website was designed to provide easier access to information in a simple-to-navigate [...]
IDT’s PCIe Gen3 NVM Enterprise Flash Controller was recognized as Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine and as Best Electric Design by Flectronic Design Magazine. The IDT PCIe Gen3 NVM Flash Controller family provides a standard NVMe SSD solution, enabling Enterprise Storage and Server OEMs to dramatically improve latency and throughput performance. Click [...]
EE times published an article by Kam Eshghi discussing how NVMe SSDs benefit the Enterprise. Click here for the article titled NVMe powers SSDs in the enterprise.
We’re excited to announce that we just published a book that provides an in-depth look inside SSDs. “Inside Solid State Drives (SSDs)” walks the reader through all the main topics related to SSDs: from NAND Flash to memory controller, from I/O interfaces (PCIe/SAS/SATA) to reliability, from error correction codes (BCH and LDPC) to encryption, from [...]