To Supply 900,000 2-tb NVMe SSDs to Chinese Client
Mega Electronics, a major Korean solid state drive (SSD) manufacturer, will supply a total of 900,000 2-terabyte nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) SSDs to a leading Chinese electronic component distributor over the next five years starting from this month.
NVMe is a new storage access and transport protocol for next-generation SSDs that delivers the highest throughput and fastest response times yet for all types of enterprise workloads.
NVMe SSDs are a high-speed, high-capacity data processing storage device. Only global chipmakers are able to produce NVMe SSDs. Mega Electronics has landed the order after fiercely competing with world-class chipmakers, including Intel and Micron.
Mega Electronics is one of the world's top seven SSD manufacturers. Except Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, Mega Electronics is the only Korean company that designs and produces SSDs on its own.
Mega Electronics’ SSDs are not behind the products from global companies such as Samsung Electronics, Intel, Toshiba and Micron in terms of reading and writing speeds and durability, but they are cheaper. Unlike global companies that have hundreds of engineers for SSD development and production alone, Mega Electronics only have 14 elite master's and doctorate degree holders for development and production.
In 2017, Mega Electronics surprised the world by becoming the fourth company in the world to develop a ball grid array (BGA) SSD, a next-generation SSD that packs a controller chip, NAND flash, DRAM, and a power circuit into a package. The three other companies are Samsung, Toshiba and SMI. The company developed the BGA SSD a year earlier than Intel, Micron and other major SSD manufacturers. It has also developed its own electromagnetic blocking technology that prevents interference between SSDs and components, and registered the technology’s patents in the United States and China.