Industrial MLC Flash Memory From Swissbit

Swissbit AG has reached a milestone with its MLC technology durabit.

In December 2016, for the first time, a third of all flash products sold by the company were based on MLC. At the same time, sales of SLC products also increased, establishing Swissbit as a leading provider of industrial flash memory products.

Traditionally, demanding applications in industrial, telecommunications and medical technology were the sole domain for SLC-based storage products. The innovations united under the brand name durabit have allowed the company to shift the boundaries of what is possible with MLC flash. In the beginning, there were durabit SD memory cards. Now 6Gb SATA SSDs from the X-60 range are spreading the use of durable MLC flash memory.

X-60 SSD

“The success of durabit products shows that we have been successful in qualifying our optimized MLC technology for industrial applications. Compared to SLC, developers of embedded systems and robust, durable products now have access to more cost-effective memory solutions, which for many applications meet the property requirements,” said Ulrich Brandt, director, marketing, Swissbit.

Key durabit product properties include, in particular, mechanical and electrical durability and a variety of firmware- and controller-innovations such as low WAF, extended overprovisioning and data care management. These internal mechanisms of the company’s memory solutions offer values for endurance (life of the flash medium) and retention (life of stored data). Like the classic SLC media, the firm also offers developer support and long-term availability for its MLC products manufactured in Germany, in accordance with product life cycles in industrial, telecommunications and medical technology.