Memblaze Integrates PMC Flashtec NVMe Controllers

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC) announced that Memblaze Technology Co. Ltd, provider of flash storage solutions, is utilizing its Flashtec NVMe controllers in its next-generation PCIe flash accelerators.

The Flashtec-based Memblaze PBlaze4 products are targeted at hyperscale and open compute project deployments. They provide low latency and CPU load, with read and write capabilities of up to 750,000 IO/s for random read and 265,000 IO/s for random write and 3.2GB/s sequential read, 2.5GB/s sequential write performance.

Memblaze products enable its customers to define and alter key settings to ensure performance in specific applications and platforms.

“Memblaze has achieved great success in China, growing our market share to 60% since 2010,” said Xiangfeng Lu, co-founder and CTO, Memblaze. “We partnered with PMC because they understand our drive to address customer requirements quickly with differentiated products. The flexible platform of the Flashtec controllers allows us to support multiple customer implementations and architectures with a common design effort and tune solutions for features like cost, performance and endurance. PMC’s standards-based architecture means that we can get to market much sooner and with confidence as we grow our business in China and abroad.“

SSDs based on Flashtec NVMe controllers provide performance, capacity and reliability. The flash memory controller family includes 16-channel and 32-channel devices to enable SSDs with up to 8TB of storage and performance and up to 850,000 I/Os per second, two times greater capacity and performance than other controllers. Dual port functionality delivers HA for enterprise application support, redundancy and sustained uptime reliability. Flashtec controller family supports the industry-standard NVMe interface, multiple NAND vendors and all common device drivers, enabling and accelerating wide-spread deployment of PCIe-based SSDs in cloud data centers and the enterprise.

“PMC is pleased to be partnering with Memblaze to provide the highest performance and most advanced PCIe SSD solutions for China’s technology and hyperscale leaders,” said Derek Dicker, VP of the non-volatile solutions group, PMC. “We look forward to enabling the significant growth opportunities for flash in China’s data centers and hyperscale deployments. Memblaze is a strategic partner for PMC to support these critical market segments in China and abroad.“

Memblaze and PMC showcased the PBlaze4 flash accelerator at PMC’s Flash Technology Forum at the Wenjin Hotel in Beijing, China, on December 3, 2014.