AMD Enters Storage Sector
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has entered the storage sector with a line of Radeon-branded solid-state drives targeted specifically at the game console market.
AMD is partnering with Toshiba-owned OCZ Storage Solutions, which will manufacture the solid-state drives and provide its flash controller, the Barefoot 3 3M00 device. The Radeon R7 series will also be equipped with Toshiba’s A19-nm NAND flash memory.
“We’ve been receiving a lot of demand ever since we introduced Radeon memory and memory modules,” said Robert Hallock, AMD product marketing manager, in a press briefing. “We’ve had a lot of demand from customers looking to build all-AMD systems — Radeon graphics, FX CPU, an AMD APU — and now we are simplifying that process further by adding an SSD.”