(iTers News) - SK Hynix Inc is piecing together the last part of its technology building blocks to build a total NAND flash memory chip solution for SSDs, or solid state drives.



The world’s second largest memory chip maker by sales said today that it has bought a firmware business unit of Softeq Development FLLC of Belarus for unspecified amounts - a move to beef up its foray into global SSD market.


The buyout is the latest of its spending buying binges to buy crucial building block technologies for SSDs.


In May, it acquired PCIe, or peripheral component interconnect express  business unit of Silicon Valley-based Violin Memory in May.


SSDs are a collection of NAND flash memory chips, a data interface circuit, a microcontroller for memory management, and firmware that are packed together on a palm-size circuit board.


As they can read and write data out of circuit far faster than HDDs, or hard disk drives, SDDs are rapidly emerging as a mainstream data storage device for data center servers and other computing devices.


Referring to a software-programmed ROM, or read only memory, the firmware plays a crucial role in intelligently managing memory read and write operations working together with a microcontroller.    


Firmware, a software-programmed ROM, or read only memory, is one of the crucial technology building blocks to produce SSDs, because the solid state drive mainly consists of NAND flash memory chips, controllers and firmware.


SK Hynix has been going on a spending spree to buy all important assets for the rollout of SSDs.  


In June 2012, the chip maker bought LAMD, a memory controller chip maker of the U.S.. and Ideaflash S.r.L of Italy  in June 2012 and acquired the eMMC business unit of Innoster Technology of Taiwan in August 8, 2013.




 


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