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Micron Now Shipping 176-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash

While we were just getting used to 96-Layer flash becoming commonplace and over 100-Layer flash from Samsung and SK hynix is just starting to enter the market, Micron announced its next-generation 176-layer replacement gate flash is now in volume production and shipping, setting a new high for layer counts.

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Micron’s fifth-generation 3D TLC flash not only scales higher than its closest competitor’s offerings, but the company claims its flash is also faster and offers the highest bit density yet.

Micron has shipped multiple generations of floating gate flash, but now that is has split with Intel on the manufacturing front, the company is doubling down on its second iteration of charge trap technology. Micron pairs that technique with its replacement gate (RG) tech, which uses highly-conductive metal wordlines instead of a silicon layer, for its next generations of flash.

Before this, Western Digital’s/Kioxia’s 112L, Samsung’s 1xxL, and SK hynix’s 128L TLC broke the 100-layer barrier, but none have scaled quite as high as Micron’s new flash. The relatively new replacement gate architecture offers up improved speed, endurance, and efficiency with 176 layers.

Micron stacks two 88-layer decks to attain such heights, similar to how it has done so with past nodes; however, that doesn’t mean its physical height has increased. Surprisingly, while the replacement gate flash scales to new heights at almost triple the layer count of the company’s older 64-Layer (64L) floating gate flash, it has the same height – just one fifth the thickness of a piece of paper, which is roughly 45 μm (microns) thick after wafer thinning.

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Micron’s previous-gen 96L and 128L flash could only operate at up to 1,200 MTps, but its new 176L flash is faster, reaching up to 1,600 MTps over the ONFI interface. This leads to a 35% improvement to read and write latency over the company’s floating gate 96L TLC, and it is 25% faster than its 128L replacement gate TLC. The company also noted a 15% increase in mixed performance over its 96L UFS 3.1 modules.

Yes, we have noticed the lack of 128L RG products in the market, but the company says it was simply a transitory node and that the new second-gen replacement gate NAND will have a much faster pace to market. As such, the company is banking on its new 176L NAND for a better return on investment.

“Micron’s 176-layer NAND sets a new bar for the industry, with a layer count that is almost 40% higher than our nearest competitor’s,” said Scott DeBoer, executive vice president of technology and products at Micron. “Combined with Micron’s CMOS-under-array architecture, this technology sustains Micron’s industry cost leadership.”

As a matter of fact, the new flash is shipping in Crucial products now. The company didn’t specify which models, but Crucial’s P5 looks like a prime candidate for the update based on our review samples’ results. Retail consumer products aren’t the only target market for the company’s new flash. The company markets the flash for the 5G and data center markets, with the latter to accelerate AI and big data analytics.

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The new flash is shipping in volume with 512Gb die capacities and NAND packages stacked with as many as 16 dies per package. Perhaps most astonishing, not only does Micron’s flash have the highest layer count in the business, but thanks to the company’s CuA techniques, it also boasts the greatest bit density. Micron notes that its new 176L replacement gate flash offers a 30% smaller die size compared to the industry’s best in class, which we believe refers to SK hynix’s 128L TLC.

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Drones for 5G connectivity, first commercial services in 2024

Hydrogen drones, capable of flying for 9 consecutive days and equipped with antennas to relay 5G connectivity to the ground: it sounds like science fiction, but the first commercial service could be available in Germany in 2024

by Andrea Bai published 05 November 2020 , at 10: 41 in the TLC and Mobile channel

5G

Just when most countries are busy building the new 5G communication infrastructure , that’s it that two UK companies are preparing a decidedly unusual solution to provide broadband connectivity. Cambridge Consultants and Stratospheric Platforms Limited presented a new conceptual example that could lead to the transmission of 5G connectivity from the sky thanks to drones in flight at 20 thousand meters of altitude.

The two companies have so far tested only a prototype with dimensions smaller than the final aircraft, in a ratio of approximately 1: 8. In its final form the drone will be equipped with a three square meter antenna capable of transmitting 5G connectivity over an area up to 140 kilometers in diameter . The antennas will be integrated into hydrogen-powered aircraft capable of a flight range of 9 days.

5G connectivity with drones to cover remote areas

The aircraft, developed by SPL, have a total weight of 3 and a half tons, or 1 / 150 about the weight of a Boeing 747, and are capable of carrying a load up to 140 kilograms: This limit dictates careful optimization for 5G antennas. And on the optimization of the antennas Cambridge Consultants comes into play, with the design of very thin elements weighing 120 grams. The company believes that a fleet of 60 aircraft of this type could cover the whole of the UK with 5G connectivity providing a homogeneous communication speed throughout the territory and higher than 100 gigabit at second.

“Overcoming significant technical challenges in antenna design was essential to enable us to deliver huge data rates in a unique environment where power was limited, where weight was critical and where cooling in the stratosphere was difficult. Antenna development and testing met or exceeded the design criteria and working with such a talented team of Cambridge Consultants has been one of the highlights of the program to date, “commented Richard Deakin, CEO of SPL.

Cambridge Consultants building the world ?? s largest commercial airborne antenna from Cambridge Consultants on Vimeo.

Each antenna, when realized in the actual dimensions foreseen by the project, can transmit 480 flows to different positions on the surface of the Earth . The antennas are orientable, providing the possibility to accurately cover specific areas such as a road: this is a particularly important possibility to bring better connectivity to those rural, remote and isolated areas that are difficult to reach effectively by normal infrastructures. telecommunication. To further clarify this particularity, a single antenna which, with the appropriately oriented flows, can provide connectivity to the entire M motorway 25 of the United Kingdom, the so-called London Orbital which surrounds the London megalopolis and is long 188 kilometers.

However SPL has so far tested a version of this technology in the context of a partnership with Deutsche Telekom , at an altitude of 14 kilometers and with antennas for LTE / 4G connectivity. A test that has allowed us to demonstrate the integration with the Deutsche Telekom terrestrial network, coming to provide connection speeds up to 70 megabit in download and 23 megabit in upload.

5G connectivity with drones: the first services in the 2024

Once the system can be realized in full dimensions and produced on a large scale it will be possible, according to the two companies, to provide connectivity to beyond 500 millions of people at a fraction of the cost that would otherwise be required for the maintenance of the terrestrial antenna masts that would be used to perform the work of a single “flying” antenna.

As is often the case in these situations, some challenges remain that will need to be resolved before we can see commercial developments, and in this case the main possible obstacle relates to regulations. Cambridge Consultants states that the aircraft are certified to operate safely in civilian airspace, but each country has specific rules for managing air traffic and being able to obtain the right authorizations for each market where you want to operate could be anything but a walk. In any case the launch of the first commercial service based on this technology is expected in the 2024 on the territory (or rather in the skies) of Germany.

If what has been said so far has brought to your mind something similar, you are on the right path. The project of the two British companies recalls two initiatives undertaken a few years ago by Google and Facebook: the first with Project Loon, balloons sent at high altitude to provide Internet access in remote areas (currently the project counts 35 balloons in the African stratosphere, which provide services to broadband over an area of 50 thousand square kilometers in Kenya, and has already obtained the necessary authorizations to be able to operate in others 50 countries in the world) while the second with Aquila, also these drones to be deployed at high altitude for connectivity in areas that are difficult to reach. Facebook’s Eagle project was abandoned, however, due to competition from aerospace companies.

Kioxia Reveals XD6 Datacenter PCIe 4.0 SSDs

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Kioxia has introduced one of the industry’s first SSDs featuring an EDSSF E1.S ‘ruler’ form-factor as well as a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The Kioxia XD6 drives comply with the NVMe Cloud SSD specification (developed by the Open Compute Platform organization) and are designed for applications that need consistently high performance, decent thermal management, and reliability.

Kioxia’s new XD6 SSDs are based around the company’s 3D TLC NAND memory as well as a new controller that supports all the features one comes to expect from an NVMe 1.3c-compliant hyperscale-optimized chip, including end-to-end data protection, TCG Opal security features, sanitize instant erase (SIE) capability, hot plugging, expanded drive health information, and power loss protection (appropriate capacitors are onboard). The drive guarantees reliability in 24/7 environments common for hyperscalers.

The manufacturer plans to offer its XD6-series drives in E1.S 9.5 mm, 15 mm, and 25 mm form-factors. The drives will feature different capacities depending on their physical dimensions.

As far as performance is concerned, Kioxia says that the XD6 SSD is rated for of up to 6,500MB/s and 2,400MB/s sequential read and write speeds as well as offers low latency. Power consumption of the drive is projected to be at around 15 Watts and for that reason it comes equipped with a rather huge heat spreader.

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Speaking of the heat spreaders, it should be noted that the enterprise & data center SSD form-factors (EDSFFs) were developed primarily to increase capacity of SSDs (and therefore storage density of servers) as well as to optimize their thermals and therefore ensure consistent performance. The EDSFF E1.S form-factor was designed to be short, yet offer capacities higher than those of M.2 drives. With a huge cooling system, the Kioxia XD6 is not designed to provide maximum storage density, but it will certainly offer consistently high performance even under high loads as its controller will never have to throttle due to overheating.

Kioxia is currently sampling its XD6 SSDs with select customers and plans to start their volume shipments at a later date. Considering the fact that the drives are compatible with the NVMe 1.3c protocol and comply with the NVMe Cloud SSD specification, OCP members will be the first to adopt the new drives.

Equinix: private connectivity drives the increase in bandwidth

The Global Interconnection Index ( GXI) produced annually by Equinix provides insight into how the network will evolve. In 4 years, private connectivity will grow 5 times, driven by the digitization of companies and the growth of the Edge

of Alberto Falchi published on 03 November 2020 , at 18: 34 in the TLC and Mobile channel

Equinix

That the pandemic has given a sharp acceleration towards the digital transition is now established, but how can it be measured? Some data comes from the Global Interconnection Index (GXI) which is published annually by Equinix , in which technology providers and digital service providers will increase private connectivity bandwidth 5 times by 2023 . Regarding the overall interconnection bandwidth , which specifies the extent of private connectivity for the transfer of data between organizations, this will grow by 45% year over year from 2019 to the 2023.

What emerges from the Equinix Global Interconnection Index

According to Equinix, the support of companies that are focusing on digital to react to the crisis generated by the pandemic will push the increase in the interconnection band. Companies with digital infrastructure will be able to extend their competitive advantage, and drive business growth instead of just following it, as will happen to those who still depend on service providers to transform their business models.

Almost one third of the entire bandwidth will be absorbed by sectors such as banking, insurance, manufacturing and commercial and professional services. The reason? The race to the edge: These types of companies are moving more and more workloads from the central datacenter to the network perimeter. Another factor that will contribute to the growth in bandwidth will be the increased adoption of AI and machine learning in sectors such as health and life sciences, government and education.

Another aspect on which the report focuses is the fact that companies are maximizing their digital advantage by trying to have a presence in those places where the greatest number of users are concentrated, the greatest number of suppliers and the most intense activities, where it is easier “to do network “, that is, to create an ecosystem of interpersonal relationships that helps to grow the business.

“ The COVID pandemic – 19 did nothing but accelerate the digital transformation path that companies across the region were already undertaking “ – stated Eugene Bergen Henegouwen, President EMEA of Equinix – “ The forecasts of 45% of the CAGR in Europe are indicative of the growing demand from businesses to improve their interconnection capacity in order to compete in an increasingly digital economy. It is now even more important for businesses to find innovative ways to interconnect with their customers and partners to gain competitive advantage in an increasingly remote and dispersed environment “.

” The growing need of companies to accelerate its evolution from traditional to digital models is leading to a sharp increase in demand for interconnection services “- commented Emmanuel Becker, Managing Director Italy of Equinix – “ To meet this need, Equinix is currently developing a new International Business Exchange ™ data center in Milan, ML5, which is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2021. ML5 will offer a state-of-the-art colocation, as well as a series of advanced interconnection services that will help Italian companies continue their digital transformation path “. ì

WD Black AN1500 2TB AIC SSD Review

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The latest addition to WD’s Black performance/gaming range is the AN1500, an AIC (add-in card) drive using two NVMe SSD drives built into a RAID 0 array together with a PCIe Gen 3.0 x8 interface and customisable RGB lighting.

WD’s Black AN1500 comes in three capacities; 1TB, 2TB (the drive we are reviewing here) and the flagship 4TB model. Internally the AN1500 uses a pair of WD PC SN730 NVMe SSDs built-in a RAID 0 array, the hardware array is controlled by a Marvell 88NR2241 IC.

Officially all three drives have same the same Sequential read/write figures of up to 6,500MB/s and 4,100MB/s respectively. Random 4K performance is stated as up to 760,000 IOPs for reads and up to 690,000 IOPS writes for the 1TB drive, the 2TB and 4TB drive have an up to 780,000 IOPS rating for reads with writes at up to 700,000 IOPS for the 2TB model and up to 710,000 IOPS for the 4TB drive.

Power consumption is stated as up to 15.7W active for reads and up to 12.8W for writes with an 8.5W figure when the drive is idle.

There are no endurance figures for the AN1500 on the spec sheet but the 1TB model of the SN730 drive that is inside it has a rating of 400TBW. WD back the AN1500 with a 5-year warranty.

Physical Specifications:

Usable Capacities: 2TB.

NAND Components: SanDisk 96-Layer 3D TLC.

NAND Controller: 2 x WD in-house.

RAID Controller: Marvell 88NR2241-BWW2.

Interface: PCIe Gen3.0 x8.

Form Factor: HHHL (Half-Height, Half Length) AIC (Add-in-card).

Dimensions: 13 x 72 x 176mm.

Drive Weight: 210g.

Firmware Version: 10271043.

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These are the fastest SSD controllers right now: 7.3 GB / s broken – update

Idriz Velghe, Björn Meijer 24 October 2020 11: 47 37 Comments

Preface

At the beginning of September Sabrent showed the Rocket 4 Plus. It is the successor to the manufacturer’s first pcie 4.0 ssd, which was released a month earlier. Thanks to the new PS 5018 – E 18 – controller from Phison, the SSD is able to achieve sequential read and write speeds of 7 and 6 respectively, 85 GB / s. Both the random reads and writes amount to a maximum of 1 million iops. The PS 5018 – E 18 supports SSDs in m.2 format, with a capacity of 512 GB to 4 TB. The controller is made on TSMCs 12 nm -node.

According to TweakTown, the controller has even more to offer. The emerged CrystalDiskMark result would have been achieved with the E 18 – controller, although it is not known in which SSD it is used. The drive achieves sequential read speeds of nearly 7.4 GB / s, and sequential write speeds also exceed 7 GB / s.

Update, 24 October – Phison has told Tom’s Hardware that the E 18 in the manufacturer’s test labs, has achieved more than 1.2 million Iops in Iometer. We do not have many characteristics of the SSD used and we do not know which hardware the test system has, but it is known that the SSD is an engineering sample of 2 TB and uses Micron’s B 27 B-Flash Memory with 96 layers, three bits per cell (tlc) and a capacity of 512 gigabit per chip.

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Table of contents There is not much space in current notebooks. SSDs in 2.5-inch housings have almost disappeared from mobile devices; at least in the smaller models, only housing-less SSDs in M.2 format are used – if there is a socket for an SSD at all and it is not soldered on .

M.2 SSDs are available in different lengths. The 52 Millimeter long strips (M.2 – 2280, stuck in servers too like one with 110 millimeter length (22110). M.2 SSDs with 60 and 40 Millimeters in length are rare, but even rarer are those with only 30 Millimeters in length, such as those found in the Windows-on-ARM Surface Pro X device. If you want to expand the storage space in such a device, the choice is no longer large: only Kioxia has a model with 1 TB of storage space on offer. We not only tested the largest model of the BG4 with 1 TB of storage space, but also one with 256 GByte.

Kioxia – behind this is the former Toshiba brand – packs TLC flash and SSD controller in a common chip housing for these SSDs. There is no DRAM cache, the SSD uses part of the PC main memory via the NVMe driver as a cache for its allocation tables.

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British Telecom chooses Ericsson as its 5G partner for major UK cities

Ericsson will be a key partner of BT for the 5G rollout in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff and other major cities in the UK, managing approximately 50% of BT’s total 5G traffic

of Alberto Falchi published 29 October 2020 , at 15: 56 in the TLC and Mobile channel

5G Ericsson

As we anticipated, the United Kingdom has focused heavily on Ericsson’s technology for the 5G , and now the partnership is further strengthened: the company recently announced that It will be a key partner for the implementation of next generation networks in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff and other major cities in the UK, and will handle approximately half of total 5G traffic country .

Major British cities choose Ericsson for 5G RAN connectivity services

The collaboration between British Telecom and Ericsson for RAN (Radio Access Network) connectivity and 5G Core cloud native and dual-mode was launched at the beginning of 2020 and now enters a new phase, with Ericsson being partner end -to-end for the 5G of the English telecommunications giant: when the implementation is completed, Ericsson will manage about the 50% of British Telecom’s 5G traffic. Subsequently, the partnership will allow BT customers to offer new products and services that leverage 5G. As part of the agreement, Ericcson will not just manage the next generation network structure, and will modernize the existing 2G and 4G Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure of BT .

“ Our customers deserve the best network and we are delivering it. We are the leader in 5G in the UK and are thrilled to work with Ericsson as a key partner to maintain our market leadership “ – said Philip Jansen, CEO of British Telecom – “ Through this agreement we will continue to provide the best mobile experience for our customers. Lightning-fast speed 5G will help them develop their business, stream an increasing amount of content on our network and stay in touch with colleagues and friends around the world “.

” BT has a clear direction on how it intends to drive its 5G ambitions in the UK and we are delighted to work with them to achieve this “- explains Börje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson – “ As a partner for 5G Core already, we are happy to further consolidate our relationship with this agreement which will provide high performance and a secure 5G network to their customers in major UK cities. By developing 5G in these key areas, we are once again demonstrating our technology leadership in densely populated, high-traffic locations. 5G plays a vital role in meeting the UK’s digital ambitions, accelerating the digitization of the economy and spurring innovative next-generation wireless solutions for consumers and businesses. Thanks to the best 5G technology, the strong capacity of our supply chain and over 120 years of local presence in the UK, we are committed to implementing a reliable and secure 5G network together with BT “.

T-Mobile expands into live internet TV with new TVision streaming service

After years of anticipation, T-Mobile is finally getting into the live TV business with the launch of a new internet-based streaming service called TVision, launching on November 1st.

To be clear: TVision isn’t using the fiber-optic-based IPTV technology that it acquired alongside Layer3 back in 2017. It’s a traditional over-the-top streaming service that simply streams live television over the internet, just like YouTube TV, Hulu’s live TV service, Fubo TV, Sling TV, or (in perhaps the closest analogy) AT&T TV. But what sets TVision apart is its pricing, which aims to offer lower costs and more flexibility than its competitors.

To that end, TVision is broken up into a few different products. There’s the $40-per-month TVision Live, which offers the most traditional cable TV line. It’s focused largely on providing news and sports, including channels like ABC, NBC, and Fox (although notably, not CBS), news networks like CNBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News, along with sports-focused channels like FS1, FS2, ESPN, and NBC Sports. Additionally, TVision Live includes general cable fare like the Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, SyFy, TBS, TNT, USA, and Bravo.

There are also two additional tiers of TVision Live: the $50 Live TV Plus, which adds additional sports channels (including the Big Ten Network, ESPNU, NFL Network, and regional NBC sports channels), and the $60 Live Zone, which adds a few additional channels but whose main draw is NFL RedZone.

All three TVision Live plans also include a cloud-based DVR, which stores up to 100 hours of recordings (and, unlike some streaming services, those recordings are direct from the live TV feed — not on-demand content). TVision Live supports up to three concurrent streams, which means that you’ll be able to share an account with family members, too.

But TVision Live is just a part of TVision. There’s also TVision Vibe — which, at $10 per month for over 30 live channels from AMC, Discovery, and Viacom — might be the most interesting part of T-Mobile’s TV strategy. Channels here include AMC, BBC America, BET, Food Network, HGTV, the Hallmark Channel, MTV, TLC, Comedy Central, and Discovery.

There are a few more limitations here: TVision Vibe only supports up to two concurrent streams, and DVR access costs an extra $5 per month on top of the initial $10 subscription. But if you’re interested in the channels it offers, it’s among the cheapest live TV packages around.

Lastly, there’s TVision Channels, which offers standalone subscriptions to Starz ($8.99 per month), Showtime ($10.99 per month), and Epix ($5.99 per month).

T-Mobile’s TVision services can also be combined. For example, you can subscribe to both TVision Live for a basic set of channels and then add TVision Vibe on top for those additional entertainment-focused channels — just like regular cable.

Those prices certainly impressive, but other TV services, like Fubo or YouTube TV, have offered similarly low prices at their launches, too, only to raise prices considerably as content licensing costs have gone up. It’s not clear yet whether TVision’s various services will manage to avoid a similar fate in the future, despite T-Mobile’s usual rhetoric about offering a different sort of service than its competitors.

TVision will be available on a variety of platforms, including iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire, and Google TV. (Notably absent on that list is Roku, which won’t be available, at least at launch, or any way to watch on a computer.) T-Mobile is also offering the $50 TVision Hub, a 4K Android TV dongle that’s been customized to offer a more integrated TVision experience.

To start, TVision will be available just to T-Mobile postpaid wireless customers starting on November 1st. Sprint customers will get access later in November, with the service opening up to all customers sometime in 2021.

Faster SSDs: Phison is preparing E18, 1.2 million IOPS controller

Phison is finishing work on the controller E 18, a next generation PCI Express 4.0 solution that should ensure really high performance: we are talking about over 1.2 million IOPS.

by Manolo De Agostini published 26 October 2020 , at 08: 53 in the Storage channel

Phison

After an interlocutory year, the world of PCI Express 4.0 SSDs is ready to populate of very fast solutions. In recent days we talked about the upcoming Silicon Motion controllers and before that tested the Samsung 980 PRO. In all this Phison , the first to make a PCI Express 4.0 controller (pushed to do so by AMD for Ryzen debut 3000), is working hard to regain lost leadership.

Phison E 18, a thorn in Samsung’s side?

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the new controller PS 5018 – E 18 seems to have the credentials to allow producers to create SSDs of absolute value: the new proposal would be in the final stages of development and, as you can see from the IOmeter test, it is able to offer I / O performance exceeding 1.2 million IOPS , a result even higher than that ensured by Samsung’s proposal.

“Company no he did not tell us what specific interventions he took to get to this speed or shared the details of the test platform, but we know that these results were obtained with an engineering sample from 2 TB equipped with Micron B memory 27 B TLC a 96 layer from 512 Gb “, writes Tom’s Hardware.

Thanks to the arrival of new console from Sony and Microsoft, the 2021 promises to be a golden year for SSDs, which although already very popular they will find even more favor with the games that will finally begin to be optimized to make better use of the fast NAND flash memory. Also not to forget that, thanks to QLC memory, the industry will see a new leap in capacity, with several companies already announcing solutions up to 8 TB.

Exclusive: Phison’s E18 NVMe SSD Controller Hits 1.2 Million IOPS

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Competition is heating up in the storage world as new PCIe Gen4 SSDs enter the market. While Phison was first to market with a PCIe Gen4 SSD and led the industry with chart-topping performance, the PS5016-E16 controller has been recently dethroned by newer, faster rivals. Phison’s new E18 SSD controller looks to recapture the lead, though.

Phison’s current-gen PS5016-E16 has been outclassed by the likes of Samsung and its powerhouse 980 PRO. With speeds of 7/5 GBps and the ability to sustain 1 million IOPS, the 980 Pro easily outshines E16-powered SSDs.

Additionally, rival SSD-controller maker Silicon Motion just announced its new PCIe 4.0 controllers, the SM2264 and SM2267, and products like Adata’s XPG Gammix S50 Lite are already hitting shelves (we’re already testing it in our labs).

Phison isn’t sitting idly by, though; The company is busy tweaking its new E18 controller to fend off the new challengers. As the second-gen PS5018-E18 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 SSD controller nears the final stages of development, the company gave us an exclusive glimpse of its current capability – and the results are more than impressive.

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While Samsung’s ability to sustain upwards of 1 million IOPS was impressive, Phison’s test lab has now posted speeds in excess of 1.2 million IOPS with the E18 controller.

The company didn’t tell us about any specific tweaks it used to attain these speeds or share details of the test platform, but we do know that these results are based on a 2TB engineering sample armed with Micron’s 512Gb B27B 96-Layer TLC flash.

The results are miles ahead of the first Phison E18 results that surfaced last month, and even faster than the results that surfaced earlier this week. With performance results getting faster seemingly weekly and Phison already sampling silicon to its customers, it appears that we’ll soon have new speedy third-party SSDs hitting the market that can trade blows with, or beat, the best SSDs on the market.

WindTre Business announces WindTre Connect On Air, the fixed wireless access for companies

WindTre Business announced the new solution WindTre Connect On Air, created in collaboration with Eolo and designed to bring wireless connectivity to companies and meet their network access needs

by Riccardo Robecchi published on 23 October 2020 , at 18: 42 in the channel TLC and Mobile

WindTre

To better serve companies in remote locations or that need to differentiate access methods to the Network, WindTre Business announced WindTre Connect On Air , new offer that prev and the use of FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) technology provided by Eolo .

WindTre Connect On Air: wireless connectivity for business

FWA technology makes it possible to replace or combine copper or fiber optic connections with those that use radio waves: the concept is similar to that of cellular networks, but requires that the connected devices are fixed as they serve offices and housing. WindTre Connect On Air leverages the Eolo network to allow companies to connect their offices to the network when access via cable connections is not available or, on the other hand, to provide an additional connectivity channel that acts as a reinforcement to those already existing.

Windtre states that the service is available nationwide “with connectivity solutions targeted to the needs of companies” , which seems to indicate that these are ad hoc solutions created on a project, with guaranteed symmetrical band up to 4 Mbps and maximum download speed of 100 Mbps.

Part of the offer are also ancillary services such as quick installation (within five working days of activation) and recovery within 24 hours in case of unforeseen events in the 95% de cases.

No information has been disclosed about the prices or the availability on the market of the offer.

Verizon launches private 5G service with Nokia

The collaboration between Nokia and Verizon has led to the launch of private 5G internationally: companies will be able to implement enterprise-level private 5G network capabilities within their offices

by Alberto Falchi published on 23 October 2020 , at 16: 17 in the TLC and Mobile channel

Nokia Verizon 5G

Verizon has launched its private 5G platform to offer connectivity to businesses in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Nokia has joined Verizon as a partner in the creation of the platform, which will allow enterprises to be able to activate 5G services within their offices, without having to go through public networks.

The advantages of private 5G networks

Private 5G networks offer the same advantages as commercial ones in terms of data transfer speed and latencies, but offer greater guarantees of confidentiality by not exposing any data on public networks and allow you to customize the infrastructure in relation to specific needs . They are widely used in production, distribution and logistics structures. Private 5G will rely on the Digital Automation Cloud from Nokia, a private wireless networking solution with automation enablers, which will enable the release of applications through a web-based interface.

“ Today we announced the next phase of our global 5G strategy with the launch of private 5G for our international customers “- stated Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business – “ If the last few months have taught us anything, it is that there has never been a more pivotal time for mobility and cloud and broadband products and services. 5G private networks will represent a revolutionary technology that will bring about a new era of disruption and innovation for companies around the world “.

” The wireless connection p rivata has now become essential for many industries aiming to achieve their long-term digital transformation goals. By delivering private 5G together with Verizon, we are leading the way to accelerate digitization for those industries that most need a reliable wireless connection “, said Brian R. Fitzgerald, SVP Global Solutions of Nokia .

Silicon Motion unveils PCI Express 4.0 SSD controllers up to 7400MB / s

Prepare for an invasion of SSDs Ultra-high speed M.2 PCI Express 4.0 thanks to three new Silicon Motion controllers – SM 2264, SM 2267 and SM 2267 XT – which promise performance up to 7400 MB / s in sequential reading.

by Manolo De Agostini published 22 October 2020 , at 08: 26 in the Storage channel

Silicon Motion (SMI)

Silicon Motion , designer of controller for SSD , announced three new solutions PCI Express 4.0 compliant with NVMe 1.4 specification set to become the heart of many drives in the future: the SM model is aimed at M.2 SSDs looking for maximum performance oni , SM 2267 to models mainstream and SM 2267 XT ai SSD without DRAM on board pointing to containing the price .

The company reports that already ten NAND and SSD manufacturers have selected these PCI Express 4.0 controllers to match them memory 3D NAND TLC and QLC. The top model SM 2264 is based on the ARM Cortex-R8 quad-core processor with four PCI Express lanes and support for eight NAND channels for up to of 1600 MT / s per channel.

The controller, produced with process a 08 nanometers, ensures sequential read and write performance of 7400 MB / se 6800 MB / s , plus random write and read speeds of up to 1. 000. 000 of IOPS. The controller supports the seventh generation of ECC NANDXtend technology to ensure data integrity. The controller is currently undergoing sampling at some Silicon Motion partners.

	SM 2267 XT	SM 2267	SM 2264
Interface	PCIe Gen4 x4	PCIe Gen4 x4	PCIe Gen4 x4
PCIe Protocol	NVMe 1.4	NVMe 1.4	NVMe 1.4
NAND Flash channels	4	4	8
CE / Channels	4	8	8
DRAM	No DRAM	Yup	Yup
Maximum performance
Read seq.	3900 MB / s	3900 MB / s	7400 MB / s
Written ra seq.	3500 MB / s	3500 MB / s	6800 MB / s
Random read	500. 000 IOPS (HMB) 200. 000 IOPS (no HMB)	500. 000 IOPS	1. 000. 000 IOPS
Random write	500. 000 IOPS	500. 000 IOPS	1. 000. 000 IOPS

The models SM 2267 and SM 2267 XT are de tied to mid-range and low-range units, providing four PCIe 4.0 lanes and four NAND channels (up a 1200 MT / s per channel). These features, according to the company, allow for the creation of SSDs with sequential read and write performance of respectively 3900 MB / se 3500 MB / s . The SM model 2267 includes a DRAM interface, while the XT variant is off guard. The two controllers have already gone into production.

Plextor M8V Plus – 3D TLC NAND semiconductor media

For a long time, high-performance advocates have a plethora of semiconductor media that use the NVMe protocol to choose from, and those who need top speeds also put newer and more expensive proposals based on the PCI Express 4.0 interface, instead of PCI Express 3.0. However, there are still a lot of consumers who are driven mainly by price, not efficiency, or simply important for them in SSDs are low operating temperatures and an exemplary work culture. Then, when every zloty counts, SATA III semiconductor carriers stand out first. Plextor has just expanded its offer with such offers, which as part of the M8V Plus series offer sequential reading up to 560 MB / s.

The Plextor M8V Plus series will include models with a capacity of 128, 256 and 512 GB and 1 TB. All of them will be covered by a 3-year manufacturer’s warranty.

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Disk Test SSD Plextor M9Pe M.2 – very fast baby

Plextor M8V Plus is a new series of semiconductor media, which has been divided into M8V models G Plus in M.2 format 2280 and M8V C Plus, which is more classic 2.5 inches. The manufacturer decided to use 96 – 3D TLC NAND memory chips (Kioxia) and the well-known Silicon Motion SM controller 2258. This translates into the declared performance up to 560 MB / s for read and for 520 MB / s for sequential write and for 90 000 IOPS for read and 88 000 IOPS for random write.

Plextor M8Pe SSD Test – Performance beauties on PCI-E and NVMe

The Plextor M8V Plus series, both in the M.2 and 2.5-inch versions, will include models with a capacity of 128, 256 and 512 GB and 1 TB. All of them will be covered by a 3-year manufacturer’s warranty with a TBW coefficient of 70 , 140, 280 and 560 TB. The manufacturer has not revealed the suggested prices on the Polish or even European market. However, considering that the SATA III protocol should not be too expensive. We do know that the new SSDs are to appear in the first Polish stores in November 2020.

Source: Plextor