IDT is quite a big company. Relatively less known to the usual PC user, we would like to remind our readers that IDT once competed with AMD, Cyrix, Nat Semi and Intel for the desktop computer market and now they’ve just bought PLX, the maker of the famous PCIe bridge chips on AMD’s dual GPU cards.
Having all the necessary technology to build an SoC that is a multi-channel SSD controller and an SSD to PCIe bridge at the same time, the company is now attempting to byte a serious slice of the performance and enterprise PCIe SSD market.
This is relatively a young market in great demand of competition, and there really aren’t so many competitors present. Therefore, it’s clear why IDT is investing such serious efforts to develop powerful and well-standardized devices.
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There are only two other serious independent PCIe enterprise SSD makers left on the market right now; Fusion-io and OCZ, but as we’ve reported here, Seagate is eyeing one of them.
There is also LSI, but this seems too much of a large company to be easily snatched by one of the big players and also Intel has recently started dabbling into PCIe SSDs.
Even so, a nice market with huge margins being populated by less than five manufacturers is a perfect opportunity for a company like IDT.
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NVMe 1.0 is short for NVM Express and that would be defined as “Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification.”
Basically, NVM Express is a unified standard for the PCIe SSD cards that will make them perfectly compatible with each other, just like all the HDDs and SSDs are.
IDT has shown two NVM Express PCIe SSD controllers. One has 16 NAND channels and the other has an amazing 32 channels, but the company is not interested in making its own cards.
IDT is hoping for a future where it will have AIBs just like AMD or Nvidia that will build cards using its NVM Express controllers.
Via: IDT Shows Impressive 32 Channel NVMe SSD Controller
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