Anobit has announced that its new MSP2020 NAND flash memory controller is shipping in multi-million quantities for use within today's most advanced smartphones and tablet computing devices. The company has commenced high volume production of the new controllers with major providers of mobile computing devices, in cooperation with Hynix Semiconductor.
Powered by Anobit's MSP (memory signal processing) technology, the MSP2020 controller enables the use of commercial-grade two-bits-per-cell and three-bits-per-cell NAND flash within the most endurance- and performance-intensive embedded computing applications, the company said.
Anobit's MSP2020-series controllers support up to two ONFI-compliant NAND interfaces to a host processor, and can support product configurations from 4GBs to 128GBs, the company indicated.
"In the span of just five years, the endurance of mainstream NAND flash has plummeted from 100,000 program/erase cycles to approximately 3,000 cycles, and the industry push toward three-bit-per-cell MLC NAND will place further downward pressure on NAND endurance. In parallel, mobile computing devices will continue to fuel demand for higher NAND endurance and performance," said Gregory Wong, founder and principal analyst, Forward Insights.