{"id":21793,"date":"2012-06-26T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=21793"},"modified":"2012-06-26T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:29:51","slug":"seagate-and-densbits-announce-strategic-agreement-for-development-of-solid-state-drives-for-consumer-and-enterprise-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21793","title":{"rendered":"Seagate and DensBits announce strategic agreement for development of Solid State Drives for Consumer and Enterprise markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Seagate Makes Equity Investment in DensBits<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cupertino, CA and Haifa, Israel, June 25, 2012\u00a0&#8211; <\/strong>Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, and DensBits Technologies Ltd (<strong>\u201cDensBits\u201d<\/strong>) the inventor of the world&#8217;s first Memory Modem<sup>TM<\/sup> have announced today a strategic agreement for the development of low-cost, high-performance Solid State Drives (<strong>\u201cSSD\u201d<\/strong>) for the consumer and enterprise markets. In conjunction with the agreement, Seagate has made an undisclosed equity investment in DensBits.<\/p>\n<p>Seagate and DensBits are joining forces, to develop future products that are intended to provide customers with significant cost savings, extremely high reliability, and unparalleled performance. Under the agreement, DensBits\u2019Memory Modem<sup>TM<\/sup>controller technology will be integrated with Seagate\u2019s various storage technologies to power a wide range of consumer and enterprise applications including 3 bits\/cell <strong>(\u201cTLC\u201d<\/strong>) 1Xnm Flash-based consumer-grade SSD, and 2 bits\/cell <strong>(\u201cMLC\u201d<\/strong>) 1Xnm Flash-based enterprise-grade SSD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last 30 years, Seagate has delivered technology and product innovation to become the global leader in storage solutions, from high-end enterprise drives to solid-state hybrid drives,\u201d said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate chief sales and marketing officer. \u201cSeagate is excited to be working with the talented DensBits team and believes we have a significant opportunity with our new strategic relationship to extend our leadership into the SSD market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited at the opportunity of collaborating with Seagate,\u201d said Ilan Hen, DensBits\u2019 Chairman and CEO. \u201cThis is yet another testament to our technology leadership, and we strongly believe that the coupling between DensBits\u2019 unique Memory Modem<sup>TM<\/sup>controller technology and Seagate\u2019s exceptional storage capabilities across the board could truly disrupt the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seagate Makes Equity Investment in DensBits Cupertino, CA and Haifa, Israel, June 25, 2012\u00a0&#8211; Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, and DensBits Technologies Ltd (\u201cDensBits\u201d) the inventor of the world&#8217;s first Memory ModemTM have announced today a strategic agreement for the development of low-cost, high-performance Solid<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21793\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21798,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793\/revisions\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}