Spansion has announced production of a new low-density serial flash memory family to expand its product portfolio and address additional applications in the consumer segment and in Greater China.
The new 4Mb, 8Mb and 16Mb Spansion FL-2K family is targeted for code storage applications in consumer electronics such as optical disk drives, cable and DSL modems, printers and routers as well as industrial applications such as smart meters, Spansion indicated. The family features read performance of up to 85MHz for fast application boot, industrial temperature range and reliability.
In addition, Spansion noted that the firm has expanded its performance lead with samples of new 80MHz double data rate (DDR) serial flash memory. The Spansion FL-S family now delivers 40% faster bandwidth, up to 80 MB/s, than competing solutions to enable richer user experiences. This performance is ideal for automotive instrument clusters and industrial applications like home energy management systems that need to quickly serve rich graphics to LCD displays.
The full Spansion FL serial flash family now scales from 4Mb up to 1Gb to serve the broad needs of embedded applications with product options for single, dual and quad I/O read operation as well as DDR, the company said.
Spansion disclosed that its 128Mb and 256Mb FL-S 80MHz DDR devices are sampling now with production slated for the fourth quarter, and 512Mb and 1Gb versions are available based on customer demand.
"Serial flash is one of the fastest growing memory markets with a forecasted 15% compound annual growth rate for revenue through 2017," Alan Niebel, CEO of Web-Feet Research, said in a statement issued by Spansion. "Low-density SPI currently has the highest unit volume. However, there's high growth in the mid- to high-densities where performance is more critical. These additions to the Spansion portfolio will be welcomed by customers trying to simplify their supply chain."
Spansion FL serial flash family features densities from 4Mb up to 1Gb
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Article translated by Jessie Shen
