FMS: Silicon Motion Showcased SSD Controllers and Storage Solutions

At FMS, Silicon Motion Technology Corporation presented SSD controller and storage solutions for enterprise/data center, client SSD controller solutions for personal computing, UFS controllers for mobile and single-chip SSD, eMMC and UFS for industrial/automotive applications.

The company has shipped over 160 million client SSD controllers in the last three years and has leveraged its client SSD controller expertise to enter the enterprise/data center market, supplying enterprise solutions including SSD controllers, NVMe SSD solutions, single-chip SSDs for boot drive, AFA and SDS.

With its knowledge of NAND characteristics, flexible ASIC/firmware design capabilities and proprietary NANDXtend ECC technology which integrates error recovery functionality with a ML algorithm, enterprise storage solutions deliver performance and prolong data retention to improve QoS.

Controllers and storage solutions displayed:

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SSD controllers for enterprise/data center

- - SM2270: PCIe Gen3 x8 NVMe 1.3 SSD controller supported with standard NVMe and Open Channel firmware
  - SM8108: Optimized QoS PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 SSD controller
  - SM2271: 6Gb SATA SSD controller enabling high capacity and performance SATA enterprise SSDs

SSD solutions and SDS for enterprise
- - Shannon OCS Venice: Open Channel SSD
  - Shannon Key Value SSD: Native KV Interface SSD
  - FerriSSD: PCIe NVMe single-chip SSD for boot drive
  - Bigtera VirtualStor Extreme: Performance scale-out all flash-storage platform

SSD controllers for personal computing
- - SM2267/SM2264: PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 1.3 SSD controller
  - SM2262EN/SM2263EN/SM2263XT: PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 SSD controller
  - SM2259/SM2259XT: 6Gb SATA SSD controller
  - SM3282: USB 3.2 Gen 1 portable SSD controller

UFS controller for mobile
- - SM2754: UFS 3.1 controller for embedded UFS, uMCP and UFS card

Single-chip SSD, eMMC and UFS for industrial and automotive
- - FerriSSD: PCIe NVMe/SATA/PATA single-chip SSD
  - Ferri-eMMC: eMMC 5.1 single chip solution
  - Ferri-UFS: UFS 2.1 single chip solution