18181-Greenliant ArmourDrive QX Memory Card 1TB

Greenliant Systems is an American manufacturer of NAND

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-based solid state storage and controller semiconductors for embedded systems and datacenter products. Greenliant is headquartered in

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, with offices in

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and

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History

Silicon Storage Technology Microchip Technology Inc. is a publicly-listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP integrated circuits. Its products include microcontrollers ( PIC, dsPIC, AVR and SAM), Serial EEPROM d ...

(SST) developed NANDrive technology, and was acquired in April 2010 by

Microchip Technology Microchip Technology Inc. is a publicly-listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP integrated circuits. Its products include microcontrollers ( PIC, dsPIC, AVR and SAM), Serial EEPROM ...

. SST's founder and CEO

Bing Yeh Bing Yeh (; born c. 1950) is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and business executive. Biography Yeh was born in Taiwan and came to the United States in 1976. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from National Taiwan University. ...

founded Greenliant along with other former SST executives after the acquisition. In May 2010, Greenliant acquired NANDrive technology and other assets from Microchip for an estimated $23.6 million. The Greenliant logo symbolizes a multi-chip module with an energy-efficient core and the name represents green and reliable.

Products

In November 2010, Greenliant began sampling its

Serial ATA SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard t ...

interface NANDrive GLS85LS products, which had up to 64GB capacity in a 14mm × 24mm × 1.95mm, 145 BGA (

ball grid array A ball grid array (BGA) is a type of surface-mount packaging (a chip carrier) used for integrated circuits. BGA packages are used to permanently mount devices such as microprocessors. A BGA can provide more interconnection pins than can be p ...

), 1mm ball pitch package. In June 2012, Greenliant began sampling its embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) interface NANDrive GLS85VM products, which operate at industrial temperatures between -40 and +85 degrees, and are offered in a 14mm × 18mm × 1.40mm, 100-ball, 1mm ball pitch package.

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