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Micron Acquires Tidal Systems, In-house SSD controllers coming

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Micron has acquired Tidal Systems, a company specializing in SSD controllers founded in 2014 by industry veterans from companies such as Sandforce, SK-Hynix, and Skyera. This acquisition finally completes Micron's portfolio - they can now make all three vital components of an SSD; the NAND, DRAM, and SSD Controllers, all in-house. Samsung is the other SSD manufacturer that can do this, and now that Micron can as well, it might mean some serious competition may be coming in the SSD market soon.

 

Controllers developed in-house will help Micron to deliver premium SSDs to market faster, which will inevitably help the company’s business. Moreover, advanced controllers with LDPC will improve reliability and performance of Micron’s SSDs going forward. Tidal’s SSD processors will also be very useful for Micron, as it consolidates its NAND flash business with the aim to make more products in-house and sell less NAND to other companies.

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http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/micron-technology-acquires-tidal-systems-gets-ssd-controllers/

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-tidal-aquisition-ssd-controller,30232.html

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does this mean that crucial SSD's will now be in the highend competition with Intel and Samsung, and lower prices on SSD's from Samsung and Crucial

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does this mean that crucial SSD's will now be in the highend competition with Intel and Samsung, and lower prices on SSD's from Samsung and Crucial

Yes, that is the hope.

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Yes, that is the hope.

sweet, now i will just sit back and watch the war rage one :)

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does this mean that crucial SSD's will now be in the highend competition with Intel and Samsung, and lower prices on SSD's from Samsung and Crucial

 

No because Intel and Micron are joined at the hip for a lot of the nand stuff.  Don't Intel SSDs currently use Micron flash and Crucial SSDs use Intel controllers?

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Please add a quote to the OP from one of your sources.

 

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Yay! This is wonderful news. 

 

All of my Crucial SSD's have been bloody fast for the price and very reliable. Had an M4 for almost four years now, used daily. If this means that Crucial will soon have a product line to compete with Samsung then I'm all for it! Go micron!

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Good to hear. Can't wait to see what comes out of this.

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Holy shit they control every aspect of the ssds they make so now suuuuuper cheap ssds and some reaaaaaally good ones too.....  

 

Good shit micron

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Once they have this sorted out, Crucial SSDs are going really be hot. Maybe LTT will stop suggesting Samsung SSDs as the defacto one to get if performance jumps! :P

 

 

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It should drop the prices of SSDs even further.

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good news

i believe the only company that has a controller that works with multicell TLC  and offering it for sale is imagination tech

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Once they have this sorted out, Crucial SSDs are going really be hot. Maybe LTT will stop suggesting Samsung SSDs as the defacto one to get if performance jumps! :P

I mean they already are really hot, but they admittedly don't have a nvme drive yet which I would love to see.

Also can't sata express transfer pcie data? Why don't we see a e-sata nvme drive? (Fuck u.2)

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