SandForce

SandForce
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustrySolid-state storage
Founded2006
FounderAlex Naqvi and Rado Danilak
Headquarters
Milpitas, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Michael Raam, CEO
ProductsSolid-state drive controller
Number of employees
190[1]
ParentSeagate Technology
Websitewww.sandforce.com Edit this on Wikidata

SandForce was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed flash memory controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs).[2] On January 4, 2012, SandForce was acquired by LSI Corporation and became the Flash Components Division of LSI.[1][3] LSI was subsequently acquired by Avago Technologies on May 6, 2014[4] and on the 29th of that same month Seagate Technology announced its intention to buy LSI's Flash Components Division.[5]

SandForce was founded in 2006 by Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak. In April 2009, they announced their entrance into the solid-state drive market.[6][7]

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.[8] However, another division of LSI used the SandForce SSD processor in the LSI Nytro PCIe product line. Zsolt Kerekes, an SSD Market Analyst and publisher of StorageSearch.com, said in 2011 that SandForce was the best-known maker of SSD controllers.[3]

  1. ^ a b "LSI Completes Acquisition of SandForce, Inc". PRNewswire.com. January 4, 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
  2. ^ Geenen, Mark. "SandForce Emerges to Reshape SSD Landscape" (PDF). TRENDFOCUS. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b "SandForce - circa 2011". StorageSearch.com web site. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  4. ^ "Avago Technologies Completes Acquisition of LSI Corporation". Yahoo! Finance. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  5. ^ Vättö, Kristian (29 May 2014). "Seagate Acquires SandForce from LSI/Avago". AnandTech. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  6. ^ Bagley, James. "SandForce Enterprise Solid State Drive Processor with DuraClass Technology" (PDF). StorageStrategiesNow. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  7. ^ Merritt, Rick. "Startup brings MLC to server flash drives". EETimes. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  8. ^ Peters, Mark. "SandForce--Forcing a Solid State Reconsideration" (PDF). Enterprise Strategy Group. Retrieved 31 August 2010.