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The booming development of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid adoption of cloud services are driving the demand for more powerful, efficient and reliable data centers. To meet this growing market demand, Microchip Technology introduces the Flashtec® NVMe® 5016 solid-state drive (SSD) controller. This 16-channel fifth-generation PCIe® NVM Express® (NVMe) controller is designed to provide increased bandwidth, security and flexibility.

Pete Hazen, vice president of Microchip's Data center Solutions business unit, said: "Data center technology must evolve to keep up with the significant developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML). Our fifth-generation Flashtec NVMe controllers are designed to lead the market and meet the growing demand for high-performance, power-optimized SSDS. NVMe 5016 Flashtec PCIe controllers can be deployed in the data center to facilitate efficient and secure cloud computing and business-critical applications."

The Flashtec NVMe 5016 controller is designed to support enterprise applications such as online transaction processing, financial data processing, database mining, and other latency and performance sensitive applications. It also meets the growing demand for artificial intelligence, providing higher throughput for the reading and writing of large data sets used in model training and inference processing, and providing the high bandwidth needed to quickly transfer large amounts of data between storage and computing resources. With continuous read performance of more than 14 GB per second, the NVMe 5016 controller maximizes valuable computing resources in both traditional and AI accelerated servers under demanding workloads.

In addition to supporting the latest standard NVMe host interface, the NVMe 5016 controller also has high random read performance (3.5M IO per second), and its power characteristics are focused on power-sensitive data center needs, enabling more than 2.5 GB of data transfer per watt. The NVMe 5016 controller uses advanced node technology and includes power management features such as automatic idling of the processor core and autonomous power reduction. To support the latest flash technologies such as QLC, TLC, and MLC NAND, the NVMe 5016 controller offers powerful error correction codes (ECC). All flash management operations are performed on-chip with minimal consumption of host processing and memory resources.

Greg Matson, Solidigm's senior vice president of strategic planning and marketing, said: "Microchip's latest Flashtec PCIe controller uses advanced 6-nanometer process technology to meet power optimization requirements for demanding applications. Its flexible architecture and compact package provide the processing power needed for cutting-edge AI workloads. With its high quality and reliability, and excellent interoperability with Solidigm's QLC NAND, Flashtec PCIe controllers are ideal for meeting the growing demands of data-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence and ML."

Huabo CAI, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JMC, said, "JMC and Microchip have established a strong partnership and are committed to jointly driving the rapid development of the enterprise solid state drive market. "Microchip's reliable and flexible PCIe Flashtec product architecture provides a good foundation for our enterprise-class solutions, leveraging a wide range of advanced NAND flash memory to deliver efficiency and reliability to standard or customized high-performance enterprise-class SSDS."

The flexibility and scalability of the NVMe 5016 controller helps reduce the total cost of ownership, as advanced virtualization features such as single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), multiple physical functions, and multiple virtual functions per physical function maximize PCIe resource utilization. A consistent programmable platform gives developers planning to use Flexible Data Placement (FDP) in SSDS the control to maximize the performance, efficiency, and reliability of flash resources on SSDS. The NVMe 5016 controller, combined with Microchip's Credit Engine for dynamically allocating resources, enables reliable on-demand cloud services.

"We congratulate Microchip on the launch of the latest generation of Flashtec PCIe controllers," said Mahavolakia, vice president of Memory Products at KIOXIA USA. The Flashtec controller uses innovative ECC and flexible architecture to achieve good compatibility with our advanced NAND flash products."

"Congratulations to Microchip on the new NVMe SSD controller," said Dan Loughmiller, Director of NAND product line management and Application Engineering at Micron. As the industry's leading NAND provider, our collaboration in the data center storage ecosystem enables customers to combine Micron's packaged NAND solution with this new controller." We are pleased that our collaboration continues to provide compatibility for our NAND."

As the amount of data stored grows, so does the risk of security threats, and robust security measures must be in place. The Flashtec NVMe 5016 controller is designed to deliver enterprise-class integrity and reliability through comprehensive data protection, uninterrupted operation, and protection of confidential information.

The NVMe 5016 controller incorporates security features to help maintain firmware and data integrity throughout its lifecycle, from factory to end-of-life. These features include secure boot with hardware trust roots, two-signature verification for easy system OEM or end-user verification, support for various security standards through various authentication algorithms, user data protection for encrypting data in transit (link level) and data at rest (medium level), and sophisticated key management practices. These features comply with strict security protocols, including the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Level 140-32 and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal standard.

In terms of data integrity and reliability, the controller utilizes NVMe Protected Information (NVMe PI) and Single Error Correction and Double error Detection (SECDED) ECC to provide overlapping end-to-end data protection and advanced error correction with adaptive LDPC. It also includes a fail-over recovery mechanism utilizing Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology to further enhance the recovery capability of storage systems.

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