Samsung invests in Fusion-io, takes relationship to 'a new level'

Specializing in PCI Express-mounted flash storage, Fusion-io has managed to not only survive in these tough economic times, but garner additional investments from some clearly impressed onlookers. Loathe to be left out of the loop, Samsung -- the world's biggest NAND flash manufacturer and also Fusion-io's chief supplier -- has thrown some cash at the young startup company, and declared that the pair are now officially dating. Or, in their parlance, they've agreed to "jointly evaluate technology for new SSD applications." Samsung won't have any board level influence, but providing a reliable supply chain and the clout of its name should ensure that Fusion-io is around long enough for us to eventually be able to afford an ioDrive.

[Via PC World]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:16PM]

samsung is taking over the world.

[mattisdada Posted Oct 21st 2009 7:13AM]

Thank god! Someone had to do it! And at least ol Sam' is doing it

[Teslanaut Posted Oct 21st 2009 5:30AM]

Long Live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! ☭


(You know, cause Samsung is a Korean company. North Korea & South Korea are both Republics. And are both Korean, obviously.)

[Wolfticket Posted Oct 21st 2009 5:35AM]

North Korea isn't really a republic (let alone a democratic one) in anything other than name.

[ConceptVBS Posted Oct 21st 2009 11:49AM]

@ Teslanaut

North Korea = Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka bad guys)

South Korea = Republic of Korea ( aka good guys)

North is a totalitarian state with a crazy dictator

South is run by a democratically elected president. (strictly popular vote with no electoral college bull crap like in the US)

[Wolfticket Posted Oct 21st 2009 5:36AM]

Looking forward to storage not being a bottleneck any more.

[barCODE Posted Oct 22nd 2009 12:08PM]

With computer technology There will always be a bottleneck. It's just that for the short term storage will be less of one.


(Fast HDD's used to run at 1MB/s. Early SSD's could hardly touch the speed of modern HDD's)

[loocas Posted Oct 21st 2009 5:49AM]

Fantastic news! I'll be investing in one of these Fusion-IO cards in the near future for my high-end workstation and this should make things definitely interesting!

[ImDaIllest Posted Oct 21st 2009 6:10AM]

like to see this in PCIe v3.0, but v3.0 isnt even out yet, im guessing early 2010.

[vlad the inhaler Posted Oct 21st 2009 7:01AM]

these aren't anywhere near fast enough to max out pcie2.0 specs, especially if they go 8 lanes instead of 4

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 21st 2009 10:00AM]

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[Ghen Posted Oct 21st 2009 10:57AM]

omg that photoshop job is burning my eyes!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:28PM]

All I gotta say is... http://hothardware.com/Articles/Fusionio-vs-Intel-X25M-SSD-RAID-Grudge-Match/?page=5

...DAAAAAAAAAAAYAMN!