At the Flash Memory Summit “Green Flash” panel earlier this week, Spansion VP Jan Silverman (pictured) gave a bit more details on his company’s new low-power Flash Memory dubbed EcoRAM, that was announced last month and is expected to ship by year’s end.
But Silverman started his presentation by an unusual disclosure.
“I run this group at Spansion bringing this product [EcoRAM] out. I should tell you, I’m not a Flash person. In fact I never worked for a semiconductor company before earlier this year. I’m a server guy!”. A quality he thinks will help Spansion better understand the needs of server makers like Dell, IBM, HP or Sun.
Silverman targets the new high-density EcoRAM at web servers running large databases – like the ones used at search engine sites like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo… – that need to respond at user requests at a fraction of a second.
EcoRAM delivers 8 times the capacity at 1/8 th the power consumed by a DIMM and a higher reliability on per gigabyte level allowing hardware makers to build 1U servers with 0.5 terabytes on board. Silverman also notes that unlike standard MLC-type Flash RAM, EcoRAM allows for infinite reads.
Some of Spansion’s slides are available here and the presentation’s video is below.
