At the opening of the forum, Dr. Luo Jianjun, the chairman of the Chinese special session, expressed his warm welcome to the experts from China and the audience around the world. As one of the earliest pioneers of flash memory controllers in mainland China, Dr. Luo Jianjun is a subsidiary of Chinachem Microelectronics Co., Ltd. The company's CEO, also a professor at the Microelectronics Research Center of Hangzhou Dianzi University, combines the experience and background of industry and academia. He said on the spot that China's market opportunities and flash memory development are important cornerstones for the future development of the global flash memory market. As the world's largest flash memory application market, the application of Chinese enterprises in flash memory can provide reference for the reference of storage applications for international friends. Through continuous participation and interaction, China's flash memory will bring more new application directions and development opportunities in the future. .
Zheng Xinwu, founder and CEO of DOIT, delivered a keynote speech on “Flash Accelerating China's Digital Economy.” Zheng Xinwu started with the organization and convening of the current China Storage Industry Conference, and introduced the panorama of flash technology. The development status of China's flash memory market. He pointed out that Chinese local manufacturers account for one-third of the total number of flash memory manufacturers, mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the industry chain, such as SSD and storage components, controllers and flash storage systems, but revenue share. However, it will be less than 20%. In 2019, it will become the first year of China's storage chip industry. In order to manufacture NAND Flash's Yangtze River storage, and to manufacture DRAM, Hefei Changxin and Fujian Jinhua, the three enterprise chip factories will be completed and invested next year. Mass production has a major impact on the global DRAM and NAND Flash market supply.
The most important guest of the field, Academician Liu Ming of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a speech on "Research Progress of RRAM for Future Storage and Computing Applications." In the past 60 years, the computing performance has increased by 1010 times. Academician Liu Ming pointed out that we are facing Moore's Law. Gradual failure, traditional storage limitations, memory performance bottlenecks in the Von Neumann architecture, etc. In the future computing, NVM will play an important role, simplifying the memory architecture by converging M(memory)/S(storage), Integrated M (memory) / C (computing) solves the memory wall problem and realizes efficient brain-like computing. In the competition of a generation of NVM devices, RRAM is an ideal choice for new storage technology.
The most dazzling purple light storage in the domestic flash memory industry sent a guest speaker to Meng Xin, an engineer named Ziguang, who gave a speech entitled “NAND Structure Perceptual Controller Architecture”. Meng Xin pointed out that NAND Flash still faces enormous challenges. How to implement adaptive error Mitigation with NAND structure sensing will be the focus of controller design. It mainly includes Noise Cells Repair, Dynamic Cell Levels, and tag identification of bad flash blocks. And clear, as well as adaptive RAID technology.
As the best flash memory application company in China, Huawei's chief architect of storage, Cha Wei, gave a speech on "Building a Storage-Based Key-Value Flash Drive". Focusing on the definition of key-value disks, the development of key-value flash disk storage systems in applications The road to evolution. He also introduced three technical innovations based on storage system flash drives - protocol optimization, FTL optimization, standardized key-value interface.
Keyway Technology, based on the Storage Trends of Edge Computing, introduces the characteristics of edge computing and its storage requirements, and points out the development trend of SSDs at the edge, ie, SSD performance requirements, date-based files. Management and AI features.
GigaDevice is the guest of the finale of the strategic strategy marketing VP Michael Wang. He gave a speech entitled "NOR Flash from Greater China: From Followers to Leaders". Michael introduced the development of flash technology and NAND and NOR Flash. The difference and market application. He said that NAND flash currently dominates the smartphone and SSD market, while NOR Flash is firmly positioned to become an indispensable code memory in embedded systems. Future with the Internet of Things, smartphones and Driven by automotive applications, NOR Flash is expected to achieve rapid development again. Dr. Luo Jianjun pointed out that 'this forum is as scheduled as the first time in the flash memory summit, thanks to the rapid rise of China's storage industry in recent years, everyone Seeing the huge potential of the future data industry. At the same time, thanks to the increasing integration of Chinese companies with global industries, flash memory production accounts for about one-third of the global semiconductor industry, and flash storage is the main hardware equipment cost of big data/cloud systems. Is a very strategic area, not only important to China's information industry, but also to the global industrial landscape. Great influence. 'The forum fully confirmed the initial development of China's storage industry, it has become the focus of global attention.
In addition to the exchange speeches on the Chinese market and technology, the special session also set up a CEO Forum composed of the Chinese flash memory industry. The forum was also hosted by Dr. Luo Jianjun. The forum specially arranged three flash memory companies from Taiwan, China. Big names and three heavyweight guests from mainland China.
Dr. Luo Jianjun said, 'The industrial form of China and the United States have some differences based on cultural concepts and historical accumulation. The CEO Forum provides opportunities for industry professionals in China to express their ideas in front of professionals in the global flash memory industry. Exchange of opinions, channels for listening and answering each other. '
In this regard, Mr. Chuck Sobey, Chairman of the Flash Summit, commented that this time is an attempt, because there are not many companies from mainland China coming to the United States, but they are gradually increasing. We hope that in this way, we can hear more about China’s industry. And the voice of the academic world, not the unilateral thinking.
From the 3:3 combination of Taiwan and the land, it can be seen that integration and cooperation are everywhere. Even within China, there are different forms and concepts of industrial development. On the other hand, I hope that China and Taiwan will show their respective advantages and be peers in the global industry. Accurate decision making, layout and strategic cooperation lay the foundation.
Academician Liu Ming presented the research progress of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on RRAM, and showed the basic research and accumulation of new technologies in flash memory in mainland China for more than a decade. Although these technologies need to further cooperate with the industry, it is difficult to achieve in many directions. The level of international competition, but the accumulation of technology is step by step, and it does not mean that there is no basic research in China, no accumulation.
Academician Liu Ming said that the United States, Japan and South Korea are worth learning in terms of academic research and industry integration. Chinese companies need to have greater tolerance and patience for basic research. They should quit smoking and cessation. In addition to capital and market, the development of the semiconductor industry. It also needs people's quality and experience to accumulate. Zhaoyi Innovation is a shining star in China's flash memory industry, especially NOR Flash products. After the listing, it has won the favor of the capital market. It is currently deploying Hefei and other places to enter the field of NAND Flash.
Mr. Li Shu of Alibaba said that the huge market demand for flash memory in the network and cloud systems puts more demands on the continuous improvement of the system and flash memory technology.
Different from Taiwanese guests, the application companies from Qingyi flash memory devices, the three guests from mainland China are from basic research, flash memory device manufacturing and flash memory application companies. Professor Luo Jianjun explained: 'China has basic research, manufacturing, application market The complete industrial chain, rather than simply dumping the downstream market.'
In the attitude of integrating into the overall situation of the international industry, Mr. Pan Jiancheng, three business leaders from Taiwan, Robet Lee and Dr. Li Minghua have the same attitude. In addition to actively cooperating with Samsung, Toshiba, Micron and other flash leading enterprises, Taiwan also attaches great importance to the mainland. Market and industry development. In particular, Taiwan's traditional advantage of the PC industry has created a boom in its own semiconductor industry, while also seeing the era of network and cloud, the larger market opportunities will be industrial applications and enterprise-level applications.
At the same time, the mainland has built storage semiconductor production lines in Wuhan, Jinjiang, Hefei and other places, paying high attention to the changes in cost, price and upstream and downstream industries of future storage devices. Group CEO Pan Jiancheng said that the number of personnel in Taiwan's semiconductor industry The experience of the industry has advantages. Taiwan has to use this advantage to land in the mainland market. This is a good time. Technology and market are changing with time. Only by grasping the opportunity, pioneering and advancing is the way to survive. Conservative is Regression.
In the FMS exhibition held in parallel with the forum, almost all of the world's first-line flash memory manufacturers participated in this event. As a representative of China's outstanding enterprises, Hua Weiwei, together with Ziguang, Zhaoyi Innovation, Huawei, Yiheng Chuangyuan, etc. This exhibition.
In this exhibition, in addition to exhibiting Hua Wei's full range of SSD controller chips, bridging memory controller chips and mobile storage controller chips, Hua Wei will also exhibit enterprise-level based on Hua Wei microcontrollers. PCIe SSDs and enterprise-class SAS and SATA SSDs. Enterprise-class PCIe SSDs have 700K/390K IOPS random read and write capabilities, enterprise SATA and SAS SSDs 100K/50K IOPS are random, and support for the day. Wide temperature and various complex environments for SSD requirements.