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SST NANDrive Solid-State Storage Device Wins 2008 Golden Mousetrap Award From Design News Magazine
NANDrive Honored for Reliability, Space Savings and Ease-of-Use Benefits in the Digital Control/Embedded Computing Category
NEWS RELEASE
For More Information Contact:
Ricky Gradwohl
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
408/720-6512
rgradwohl@sst.com
Bob Nelson
Tsantes Consulting Group
408/426-4905
bnelson@tsantes.com
SUNNYVALE, CALIF., SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 — SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., NASDAQ: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, today announced that its NANDrive high-performance, fully integrated, embedded flash solid-state drive has been selected by Design News Magazine (www.designnews.com) as a winner of a 2008 Golden Mousetrap Award. NANDrive contains an integrated ATA controller and NAND flash die in a multi-chip package and is designed for data storage in embedded or portable applications. It has built in microcontroller and file management firmware that communicates with ATA-standard interfaces, so the NANDrive does not require additional or proprietary host software such as Flash File System (FFS) and Memory Technology Driver (MTD) software. NANDrive products are available in capacities ranging from 512 MByte to 8 GByte and support industrial temperature ranges.
For more than two decades, the Design News Awards Program has recognized engineering innovation and creativity in product design. This year, awards were given in four major categories: Electronics, Motion Control/Automation, Hardware/Software, Materials/Fastening/Joining/Assembly, and 24 subcategories. Design News Executive Editor Liz Taurasi gathered a record number of entries, distributing them to the magazine’s editors for judging. Based on their expertise in each technology area, 75 finalists and 16 winners were selected.
"Our Golden Mousetrap Awards give innovators the recognition they justly deserve," said Design News editor-in-chief, John Dodge. "The awards span Design News' five coverage areas and we extend our sincerest congratulations to the winners and finalists. Their perseverance in these challenging economic times is admirable, indeed."
"We are delighted that our NANDrive product has won Design News' Golden Mousetrap Award," said Bing Yeh, president and CEO, SST. "NANDrive continues to gain strong traction in the industry and this award is a testament to our technology expertise and engineering prowess. We are proud to have NANDrive become the latest of our products to earn accolades from the editorial community."
About SST NANDrive Devices
By leveraging SST's proven NAND controller technology, innovative multi-chip packaging expertise and a widely used industry standard ATA/IDE interface, the NANDrive family manages all NAND flash complexities and allows designers to quickly integrate mass data storage solutions into their designs without having to make any firmware changes. Because NANDrive complies with the standard ATA protocol supported by all standard embedded operating systems, embedded system designers no longer face the risk of host software revalidation cycles. In contrast, some other solid-state mass data storage solutions require changing host-side vendor-specific software whenever there is a change in the controller or a change to new NAND flash devices. To further ease integration and reduce inventory management, SST NANDrive solves the issues of pairing a NAND controller with new NAND flash devices. This is especially beneficial as NAND flash devices continue to migrate to new process geometries every year. As an integrated multi-chip package solution, NANDrive eliminates the need for long qualification cycles when there is a change of NAND flash technology; customers need only qualify the NANDrive as a mass storage subsystem.
In addition to its ease-of-integration, SST NANDrive offers high performance along with several advanced security protection features. SST’s industry-first hardware 8-bit ECC engine and its firmware programmable multi-tasking NAND interface help solve the slow performance problem that is typical when using lower cost, multi-level cell(MLC) NAND flash. SST NANDrive offers a unique 20-Byte serial ID number for data encryption as well as up to four protection zones that customers can use to store boot code. By using the NANDrive to store boot code for the customer’s device, system designers can eliminate the use of certain discrete devices, thus reducing bill of material costs.
For more information on NANDrive please visit the SST Web site at: http://www.sst.com/products/solid-state_storage.dot?cat=nd
About Design News Magazine
Design News (www.designnews.com), founded in 1946, is the leading technical resource for design engineers, who create everything from planes, trains and automobiles to cellular phones, medical devices, and, well, just about every other product on the planet. To be successful in their jobs, our readers need information on new technologies and products. They need and want to know how new solutions compare with existing products and how and where their engineering peers are using them. In particular, they are interested in the specific trade-offs and issues that are inherent in the adoption of new technology in a design effort and how other engineers manage those trade-offs.
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About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements regarding memory and non-memory market conditions, SST's future financial performance, the performance of new products, growth opportunities, SST's licensing business, SST's ability to diversify its business, the transition of SST's products to smaller geometrics, SST's ability to bring new products to market and shareholder returns, all of which involve risks and uncertainties. These risks may include timely development, acceptance and pricing of new products, the terms, conditions and revenue recognition issues associated with licensees' royalty payments, the impact of competitive products and pricing, and general economic conditions as they affect SST's customers, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in SST's SEC reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, SST disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
For more information about SST and the company's comprehensive list of product offerings, please call 1-888/SST-CHIP. Information can also be requested via email to literature@sst.com or through SST's Web site at http://www.sst.com. SST's head office is located at 1171 Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, Calif.; telephone: 408/735-9110; fax: 408/735-9036.
The SST logo and SuperFlash are registered trademarks and NANDrive is a trademark of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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