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Microchip Introduces High-Performance PCIe® Gen 5 SSD Controller Family
Flashtec® NVMe® 5016 controllers are optimized to manage growing enterprise and data center workloads CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The
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[{"type":"text","content":"Flashtec® NVMe® 5016 controllers are optimized to manage growing enterprise and data center workloads\nCHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom and rapid expansion of cloud-based services are accelerating the need for data centers to be more powerful, efficient and highly reliable. To meet the growing market demands, Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has released the Flashtec® NVMe® 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe® Gen 5 NVM Express® (NVMe) controller is designed to offer higher levels of bandwidth, security and flexibility. “Data center technology must evolve to keep up with the significant advancements occurring in AI and Machine Learning (ML). Our fifth generation Flashtec NVMe controller is designed to lead the market in fulfilling the increased need for high-performance, power-optimized SSDs,” said Pete Hazen, vice president of Microchip’s data center solutions business unit. “The NVMe 5016 Flashtec PCIe controller can be deployed in data centers to facilitate effective 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 applications that are sensitive to latency and performance. Additionally, it serves growing AI needs with higher throughput for reading and writing large data sets used in model training and inference processing and provides the high bandwidth necessary to move large volumes of data quickly between storage and compute resources. At sequential read performance of more than 14 GB per second, the NVMe 5016 controller maximizes the usage of valuable compute resources in traditional and AI-accelerated servers under demanding workloads. In addition to supporting the latest standard NVMe host interface, the NVMe 5016 controller is designed for a high random read performance of 3.5M IOs per second and a power profile focused on power-sensitive data center needs, delivering more than 2.5 GB of data per watt. The NVMe 5016 controller utilizes advanced node technologies and includes power management features like automatic idling of processor cores and autonomous power reduction capabilities. To support the latest Flash memory, including Quad-Level Cell (QLC...