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Samsung Mass Producing Industry's First 512-Gigabyte NVMe SSD in a Single BGA Package for More Flexibility in Computing Device Design
Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory
technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the
industry's first NVMe* PCIe solid state drive (SSD) in a single ball
grid array (BGA) package, for use in next-generation PCs and ultra-slim
notebook PCs. The new BGA NVMe SSD, named PM971-NVMe, features an
extremely compact package that contains all essential SSD components
including NAND flash memory, DRAM and controller while delivering
outstanding performance.
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Samsung rolls out first NVMe SSD in ultra-small BGA package design. (Photo: Business Wire)
"Samsung's new BGA NVMe SSD triples the performance of a typical SATA
SSD, in the smallest form factor available, with storage capacity
reaching up to 512GB," said Jung-bae Lee, senior vice president, Memory
Product Planning & Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics.
"The introduction of this small-scale SSD will help global PC companies
to make timely launches of slimmer, more stylish computing devices,
while offering consumers a more satisfactory computing environment."
Configuring the PM971-NVMe SSD in a single BGA package was enabled by
combining 16 of Samsung's 48-layer 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND flash chips,
one 20-nanometer 4Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip and a high-performance
Samsung controller. The new SSD is20mm x 16mm x 1.5mm and weighs only
about one gram (an American dime by comparison weighs 2.3 grams). The
single-package SSD's volume is approximately a hundredth of a 2.5" SSD
or HDD, and its surface area is about a fifth of an M.2 SSD, allowing
much more design flexibility for computing device manufacturers.
In addition, the PM971-NVMe SSD delivers a level of performance that
easily surpasses the speed limit of a SATA 6Gb/s interface. It enables
sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,500MB/s (megabytes per
second) and 900MB/s respectively, when TurboWrite** technology is used.
The performance figures can be directly compared to transferring a
5GB-equivalent, Full-HD movie in about 3 seconds or downloading it in
about 6 seconds. It also boasts random read and write IOPS (input output
operations per second) of up to 190K and 150K respectively, to easily
handle high-speed operations. A hard drive, by contrast, will only
process up to 120 IOPS in random reads, making the new Samsung SSD more
than 1500 times faster than an HDD in this regard.
The PM971-NVMe SSD line-up will be available in 512GB, 256GB and 128GB
storage options. Samsung will start providing the new SSDs to its
customers this month worldwide.
As a leading SSD provider, Samsung has a history of introducing advanced
SSDs ahead of the industry. In June 2013, Samsung introduced XP941 SSD
in M.2 (mini PCI (News - Alert)-Express 2.0) form factor (80mm x 22mm), which was also
the industry's first PCIe SSD for PCs. Now, Samsung plans to rapidly
expand its market base in the next-generation premium notebook PC sector
with the new high-performance, BGA package, NVMe SSD. Later this year,
Samsung plans to introduce more high-capacity and ultra-fast NVMe SSDs
to meet increasing customer needs for improved performance and greater
density.
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* Editors' Note: Often shortened as NVMe, NVM Express (Non-Volatile
Memory Express) is an optimized, high performance, scalable host
controller interface with a streamlined register interface and command
set designed for enterprise, datacenter and client systems that use
non-volatile memory storage. For more information, please visit www.nvmexpress.org
** Editors' Note 2: TurboWrite is a Samsung proprietary technology
that temporarily uses certain portions of an SSD as a write buffer.
TurboWrite delivers better PC experiences as users can enjoy much faster
sequential write speeds.
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