SandForce was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed flash memory controllers for solid-state drives.
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12 Facts About SandForce
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On January 4,2012, SandForce was acquired by LSI Corporation and became the Flash Components Division of LSI.
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SandForce was founded in 2006 by Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak.
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SandForce did not sell complete solid-state drives, but rather flash memory controllers, called SSD processors, to partners who then built and sold complete SSDs to manufacturers, corporations, and end-users.
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SandForce was initially financed by private equity firms Storm Ventures, Doll Capital Management, and unnamed computer data storage firms.
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Finally in October 2010, SandForce closed a series D round of $25 million led by Canaan Partners and included the existing investors.
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SandForce uses inexpensive multi-level cell technology in a data center environment with a 5-year expected life.
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SandForce gave the name "DuraClass" to the overall technology incorporated in its controllers.
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SandForce initially released a family split into enterprise and client computing applications.
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In October 2010, SandForce introduced their second generation SSD controllers called the SF-2000 family focused on enterprise applications.
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In October, 2011, SandForce sent out firmware updates through their manufacturing partners such as OCZ that fixed the reported issue.
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