Samsung
The market for portable SSDs (PSSDs) has seen rapid growth over the past decade. Samsung is one of the active tier-one flash vendors in the space, with their popular T-series PSSDs servicing a range of target markets in terms of performance and price. Today, the company is introducing a new category in PSSDs - high-capacity flash storage limited to entry-level speeds. The company is using QLC flash for this purpose. While this is not the first PSSD in the market to use QLC flash (and it will definitely not be the last), the company is not repeating the mistakes of its predecessors by promising the moon. Instead, the company's first product in this category - the T5 EVO Portable SSD - is limited to...
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50 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/11/2021Samsung: Deployment of 3nm GAE Node on Track for 2022
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32 by Anton Shilov on 7/9/2021Intel Hybrid CPU Starts 'End of Life' Process
As I opened my inbox this morning, I was surprised. I keep track of when Intel puts products on End of Life (or starts the process through something called...
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60 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/21/2021AMD confirms Ray-Tracing and VRS in Samsung Exynos RDNA GPU IP
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49 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/1/2021Using a PCIe Slot to Install DRAM: New Samsung CXL.mem Expansion Module
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122 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/22/20212021 NAND Flash Updates from ISSCC: The Leaning Towers of TLC and QLC
The annual IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference covers a range of topics of interest to AnandTech. Every year the conference includes a session on non-volatile memories where most of...
76 by Billy Tallis on 2/19/2021The Samsung 870 EVO (1TB & 4TB) Review: Does the World Need Premium SATA SSDs?
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50 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/2/2021How We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite
Our new SSD test suite is ready, updated and expanded for the latest trends in storage including PCIe 4.0 and QLC NAND.
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Today during the Exynos 2100 launch event, Samsung's Dr. Inyup Kang, VP and GM of the System LSI division, confirmed that their partnership with AMD on integrating a next-generation...
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