Starblaze Technology: From chips to solutions, using innovation to drive commercial implementation!
ELEXCON Electronics Exhibition relies on the dual advantages of Shenzhen's industry and regional core to promote the branding and international development of the local electronics industry. On the occasion of the 2020 ELEXCON Electronics Exhibition, Xinshiye interviewed more than ten outstanding companies in the domestic electronics industry chain and launched a special report on "New E".
Beijing Yixin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yixin Technology") was established at the end of 2015. Its business direction covers consumer and enterprise levels, main control chips and solutions, and is committed to becoming a world-class chip and solution company. Sun Tang, chief architect of Yixin Technology, told Xinshiye about the company's development and breakthroughs.
Sun Tang, Chief Architect of Starblaze Technology, was interviewed by Xinshiye
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Sun Tang, Chief Architect of Starblaze Technology: At this electronics exhibition, we focused on displaying the domestic storage master chip STAR1000P . This chip uses Starblaze Technology's self-developed StarLDPC/StarNVMe/StarUCC and other core technologies, fully supports the latest NVMe protocol standards, flexibly adapts to all mainstream MLC, TLC, and QLC flash memory particles in the market, and has industry-leading continuous read and write and random read and write performance.
Starblaze Technology storage control chip STAR1000P
At the same time, based on the independently developed STAR1000P high-performance main control, Yixin Technology provides consumer-grade solution STAR1200C, industrial-grade solution STAR1200I, and enterprise-grade solution STAR1200E, comprehensively serving big data applications and providing stable, efficient and secure data storage services.
STAR1200C is a high-end consumer solution launched by Starblaze Technology for high-performance consumer notebook computers, e-sports platforms, ultrabooks, etc., meeting the dual needs of extreme performance and battery life for mobile devices.
STAR1200I is a wide-temperature industrial-grade SSD solution, mainly used in application scenarios with strict application environment requirements and high performance requirements, such as security cameras, high-speed recorders, and ruggedized notebooks.
STAR1200E is an entry-level enterprise-level high-performance NVMe SSD that meets the needs of enterprise-level high-performance applications and power consumption control, providing the best energy efficiency ratio. STAR1200E can be widely used in storage systems, databases, clouds, and large-scale computing, helping the rapid development of data centers and cloud computing in the era of big data.
Sun Tang, Chief Architect of Starblaze Technology: Starblaze Technology's business directions include consumer and enterprise levels, main control chips and solutions. In addition, Starblaze Technology is keenly aware of the development direction of new storage technologies and considers data management based on the characteristics of the flash memory controller itself.
All data is valuable, but it must be stored, analyzed, and then transmitted. To achieve this, it is impossible to rely on traditional hard disks, because the maximum read and write speed of traditional hard disks is only about 100 megabytes. The PCIe NVMe SSD launched by Starblaze Technology has a very high bandwidth, which can reach 3.5-3.6GB/s reading and 3.2GB/s writing, which is dozens of times that of traditional hard disks.
In addition, Starblaze Technology has independent intellectual property rights and has developed its own AI analysis algorithm based on data characteristics and storage methods to help companies classify and manage data. This not only greatly reduces costs, but also achieves an overall improvement from function to performance, combining storage with AI, and using a combination of products and solutions to provide a more cost-effective option. Use chip technology to make data flow in the city and give ordinary cameras AI capabilities.
Sun Tang, Chief Architect of Starblaze Technology: Industrial collaboration of chips is very important. In fact, domestic enterprises have already made efforts in storage components. We are also working hard to cooperate with domestic upstream and downstream storage enterprises to jointly create business products with real international competitiveness.
For example, the PCIe interface and high-performance storage hard drives of the Guangwei Yi series, which are currently launched, use domestically produced solutions - Yixin master control, Hefei Changxin DDR particles and Yangtze Memory's flash memory particles. The performance and power consumption in actual tests are very excellent, and have been recognized by domestic professional evaluation media.
Some products of Starblaze Technology
We believe that continuous collaboration and cooperation in the market and technology are the necessary paths for domestic enterprises to ensure their development ; at the same time, we should explore and develop broader technical directions for the future and seize the opportunities for domestic data empowerment needs in massive and rich scenarios such as artificial intelligence, big data, and edge computing. In this era of intelligent interconnection of all things and huge changes in chip infrastructure, jointly creating chips and system architectures that truly catch up with or even surpass foreign data storage application empowerment is a goal that peers who truly have the dream of a Chinese chip should pursue together.
Sun Tang, chief architect of Starcore Technology: In 2020, the new coronavirus pandemic spread. Although the epidemic had a great impact on the economy and society, it also effectively promoted the development of new business forms such as online diagnosis and treatment, remote conferencing, online education, and digital entertainment. New infrastructure technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data, and 5G have been greatly developed. Seizing the opportunity of digital transformation under the epidemic and vigorously developing the digital economy will become the key to economic recovery in the future period.
"Where there is danger, there is opportunity." There is light under the haze. In the era of 'data is king', only analyzed data is valuable. In the massive security market, what needed to be solved in the past was the rapid storage and access of massive data, and now it is also necessary to achieve rapid retrieval and accurate matching in massive data. For this reason, Starblaze Technology has proposed its own "hyper-converged edge computing hardware platform and AI solution DeepSSD ® " , which provides high-performance, low-energy edge AI analysis computing, storage, and transmission integrated business platforms for security and supervision, ubiquitous Internet of Things, and mobile edge computing, improving the layout of the intelligent security field and bringing new development space to our products!
Domestic SSDs equipped with Starblade's storage controller chips have been mass-produced, and domestic substitution of storage controllers and SSDs has been initially realized. The performance of domestic controllers has reached the world's mainstream level, and some performance indicators need to be improved. In the last decade, flash memory technology brought subversive power to the information technology industry. In the next decade, national strategies have brought historical opportunities for the domestic technological industry revolution. "Ten years of hard work", Starblade and its Chinese chip colleagues will definitely seize this opportunity, ride the wind and waves, and build dreams for a long voyage.
Starblaze Technology ELEXCON booth
Sun Tang, chief architect of Starcore Technology: With the effective control of the epidemic, China's industrial activities have basically resumed, especially some 5G new infrastructure projects have developed rapidly. For this project, integrated circuits are currently the most widely used. For the country, the development of the integrated circuit industry is imminent, and memory chips are the backbone and core of integrated circuits. Whether it is the potential demand for data at the consumer or enterprise level, or the increase in storage in the industrial and automotive markets, memory chips are needed to complete transmission, storage and processing.
In addition to traditional application areas, new applications are also driving the development of the storage chip industry. With the advent of the era of cloud computing, AI, and the Internet of Things, larger storage space will be a rigid demand of the industry.
Yixin Technology needs to do more defense, maintain an offensive posture, seize opportunities, and not be a bystander of the times. From chips to solutions, from traditional storage to intelligent storage, use delivery to achieve the door of victory from R&D to business, and use innovation to drive business implementation. We must achieve technological innovation from 0 to 1, product innovation from 1 to N, and business innovation from N to N+!
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