Silicon Motion's SM2524XT is a New PCIe Gen5 DRAM-less SSD Controller for AI PCs
… This controller release comes as, with current DRAM and NAND prices, there is a heightened industry focus on leveraging DRAM-less SSDs to keep costs in check. …
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DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, is a volatile computer memory technology that stores bits in capacitors and requires periodic refreshing to maintain data.
… This controller release comes as, with current DRAM and NAND prices, there is a heightened industry focus on leveraging DRAM-less SSDs to keep costs in check. …
… Both the EG7 and BG8 use 4-channel DRAM-less controller designs with Host Memory Buffer support. As a higher-end drive, the XG10 moves to an 8-channel SoC design with DRAM, which is what we would expect from the performance-oriented member of the family. …
… Modern operating systems aggressively use memory for cache because unused DRAM is wasted DRAM. …
… In certain applications this has dramatic benefits. …
… It is paired with external DRAM to make for a complete solution – in this case a 256MB DDR3 chip from ESMT. …
… There was absolutely no drama. …
… While Sierra Forest was a first-generation E-core design for cloud-native workloads, Clearwater Forest focuses on delivering higher per-core performance and dramatically more L3 cache in an E-core-only design, with up to 288 cores per socket. …
… With DRAM prices taking the wind out of the sails and the sales of chip manufacturers, AMD is throwing out one last halo product for this generation, the likes of which we have never seen before. …
… One of ours has a DRAM-less Toshiba BG3 SSD installed. …