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Solid State history
Solid State company history timeline
In 1976 Dataram started selling a product called Bulk Core, which provided up to 2 MB of solid state storage compatible with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General (DG) computers.
Using volatile RAM chips backed up by batteries and HDDs to retain data when power was removed, StorageTek, Louisville, CO introduced the STC 4305 enterprise SSD that stored 45MB for $400,000 in 1978.
Matsuoka, Fujio and Hisakazu Iizuka. “Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same” United States Patent 4,531,203 (Filed Nov 13, 1981.
The Sharp PC-5000, introduced in 1983, used 128 KB solid-state storage cartridges containing bubble memory.
In 1983, a mobile computer was the first to included four slots for removable storage in form of flash-based solid-state disks, using the same type of flash-memory cards.
In 1984 Tallgrass Technologies Corporation had a tape backup unit of 40 megabyte with a solid state 20 MB unit built in.
In September 1986, Santa Clara Systems introduced BatRam, a 4 MB mass storage system expandable to 20 MB using 4 MB memory modules.
1987 saw the entry of EMC Corporation (EMC) into the SSD market, with drives introduced for the mini-computer market.
In 1991 the company built a prototype SSD module for IBM that coupled a Flash storage array with an intelligent controller to automatically detect and correct defective cells and demonstrate the practical application of the technology to mass storage.
In 1991 a 20MB solid state drive (SSD) sold for $1,000.
However, by 1993 EMC had exited the SSD market.
Early in 1995, the introduction of flash-based solid-state drives was announced.
SAM-2000 was a rackmount SSD upto 8GB, with 500MBps internal bandwidth- made by Texas Memory Systems.
Bez, R. “Introduction to flash memory” Proceedings of the IEEE Vol: 91, Issue: 4 (April 2003) pp: 489 – 502
The “flash becomes cheaper than DRAM” crossover point occurred approximately 2004.
In 2006 Samsung introduced the first high volume Windows XP notebook using SSDs.
February 2011 - Violin Memory and SolidFire announced follow on funding rounds from earlier investors.
June 2011 - FlashSoft launched its first product - software which enables enterprise flash to be used as a cost-effective, server-tier computing resource (ASAP functionality in software) which is available for free evaluation through a 30-day "Try Before You Buy" program.
September 2011 - Anobit announced it is sampling the fastest (yet) 2.5" SATA SSDs based on its own controller design.
Dataplex said it will begin shipping from select Tier 1 PC OEMs in 2011.
February 2012 - EMC and Intel joined the LSI-SandForce-inside set.
March 2012 - Micron announced a hot swappable 2.5" PCIe SSD for use in Dell servers.
May 2012 - HGST demonstrated the industry's first 12Gb/s SAS SSD. EMC acquired XtremIO for $430 million.
A remote, indirect memory-access disk (RIndMA Disk) uses a secondary computer with a fast network or (direct) Infiniband connection to act like a RAM-based SSD, but the new, faster, flash-memory based, SSDs already available in 2014 are making this option not as cost effective.
Foremay said it was accepting orders for a high capacity - 8TB - 2.5" military SATA SSD. Mass production was planned for Q1 2015.
Diablo announced details of a new 2nd generation memory channel SSD - low latency flash SSD accelerators in DDR-4 sockets - which will sample in the first half of 2015.
DIMM wars (as in retiring and retiering enterprise DRAM - big ideas 2015).
Crossbar got $35 million series D funding to make RRAM SSDs a reality in 2016.
Pure Storage said its AFA revenue in Q1 2016 was more than the leading HDD array brand.
The memory shortages of 2017 had demonstrated that solid state storage makers couldn't make enough SSDs with their current production plants to sustain the needs of the SSD market even at inflated prices.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Technology | 1956 | $62.0M | 20 | 47 |
| Sensormatic | 1966 | $180.0M | 2,500 | - |
| Aec | - | - | - | 151 |
| Creative Labs | 1981 | $1.1B | 3,000 | 18 |
| Custom Electronics | 1964 | $8.0M | 7 | - |
| Precision Systems Inc | - | $2.0B | 28,278 | 8 |
| Vision Systems Inc | - | $13.0M | 100 | 2 |
| Anta | - | $2.1B | - | - |
| AZO | 1978 | $8.5M | 270 | - |
| Image Solutions | 1997 | $17.0M | 20 | 4 |
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