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SandForce

SandForce was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed flash memory controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs). On January 4, 2012, SandForce was acquired by LSI Corporation and became the Flash Components Division of LSI. LSI was subsequently acquired by Avago Technologies on May 6, 2014 and on the 29th of…

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Founded
2006
Industry
Solid-state storage
Headquarters
Milpitas, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Founder
Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak
Key people
Michael Raam, CEO

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SandForce

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related to Issues · 31
SandForce → AES, AES-128, AES-256, After, BSOD, Corsair Memory, Force, GB Force, In, In August, In October, Intel, It, January, June, KC100, Kingston, Kingston SSDNow, OCZ, Products
related to Products · 28
SandForce → Announced, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Enhancements, February, GB, Gbit/s, GiB, Helix, In October, IOPS, Kingston HyperX, MB/sec, Mushkin, November, NVM Express, PCIe, Reference, Sample, SATA
related to history · 20
SandForce → ADATA, Alex Naqvi, At, By April, Canaan Partners, DCM, Doll Capital Management, Finally, In November, Intel Corporation, LSI, Marvell, NVIDIA, October, Rado Danilak, SanDisk, Seagate Technology, Storm Ventures, Toshiba, TransLink Capital
related to Marketing programs · 14
SandForce → BASF, In May, In October, Intel Inside, It, January, SandForce Driven, SandForce SSD Processors, SandForce Trusted, SandForce-written, SSD, SSD OEMs, The, We
related to Technology · 12
SandForce → AES, As, At, Data, DRAM, DuraClass, DuraWrite, Independent Silicon Elements, Other, RAISE, Redundant Array, SSD
Area served · 1
SandForce → Worldwide
Founded · 1
SandForce → 2006
Founder · 1
SandForce → Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak
Headquarters · 1
SandForce → Milpitas, California, U.S.
Industry · 1
SandForce → Solid-state storage

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technology ssd flash controllers solid-state announced lsi 2011 division controller products data product drives seagate series 2012 partners memory ssds

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SandForceArea servedWorldwide1.00infobox
SandForceFounded20061.00infobox
SandForceFounderAlex Naqvi and Rado Danilak1.00infobox
SandForceHeadquartersMilpitas, California, U.S.1.00infobox
SandForceIndustrySolid-state storage1.00infobox
SandForceKey peopleMichael Raam, CEO1.00infobox
SandForceNumber of employees1901.00infobox
SandForceParentSeagate Technology1.00infobox
SandForceProductsSolid-state drive controller1.00infobox
SandForceTypeSubsidiary1.00infobox
SandForceWebsitewww.sandforce.com1.00infobox
SandForcefounded in20060.95text
SandForcefounded byAlex Naqvi and Rado Danilak0.90text

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