Products of the Week: August 12, 2024

Aug. 12, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

The Flashtec NVMe 5016 SSD controller offers higher levels of bandwidth, security, and flexibility to data centers.

SSD Controller Family Handles Enterprise and Data-Center Workloads

Addressing the AI boom and expanding cloud-based services, Microchip Technology released the Flashtec NVMe 5016 SSD controller. The 16-channel, PCIe Gen 5 NVM Express (NVMe) controller offers higher levels of bandwidth, security, and flexibility to data centers. The Flashtec NVMe 5016 controller serves growing AI needs with higher throughput for reading and writing large datasets used in model training and inference processing.

Providing the bandwidth needed to move large volumes of data quickly between storage and compute resources, the NVMe 5016 controller has a sequential read performance of more than 14 GB per second, and is designed for a high random read performance of 3.5M I/Os per second and a power profile that delivers more than 2.5 GB of data per watt. Features include advanced node technologies, automatic idling of processor cores, and autonomous power reduction capabilities. The NVMe 5016 controller supports the latest flash memory, including quad-level cell, triple-level cell, and multi-level cell NAND technologies, with strong error-correction code. All flash management operations are performed on-chip via Microchip’s Credit Engine for dynamic allocation of resources.

Security features include secure boot with a hardware root-of-trust, dual signature authentication to facilitate system OEM or end-user verification, support for diverse authentication algorithms, data protection with encryption, as well as key management practices that include the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 Level 2 and the Trusted Computing Group Opal standards. Additional features include overlapping end-to-end data protection with NVMe Protection Information and single error correction and double error detection ECC, advanced error correction through Adaptive LDPC, and failover recovery mechanisms using RAID techniques to further fortify the resilience of the storage system.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.