Silicon Motion introduces the First Single Chip Controller for Cost Effective USB Portable SSDs

TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon
Motion”), a global leader in NAND Flash controllers and solid-state
storage devices, today launched an external Solid State Drive (SSD)
controller solution with an on-chip USB 3.2 interface, offering high
performance and low power consumption for the next generation of
cost-effective portable and external SSDs.

Current portable and external SSD designs typically employ a stand-alone
SSD with an USB to SATA or PCIe bridge chip for interface between the
SSD and the host. The new SM3282 with on-chip USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface
provides a complete single-chip hardware and software solution
supporting the USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) and 2 NAND channels
with 4 CE (Chip Enables) per channel, enabling up to two terabytes of
storage with the latest generation of 96-layer QLC NAND. The SM3282 also
enables battery powered small form factor portable SSDs while
significantly reducing Bill of Materials (BOM) cost.

“Professional users often rely on high-speed portable storage to get
access to their data on-the-go. Portable SSDs have been inhibited by
high pricing and limited capacity compared to portable HDDs,” said
Wallace Kou, President and CEO at Silicon Motion. “Our new SM3282
controller solution with its USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface enables the
introduction of a new category of cost-effective portable SSDs as higher
performance alternatives to portable HDDs.”

The key features of the SM3282 include:

• Peak sequential read and write transfer speeds of over 400MB/sec
• Supports USB type A and type C
• Compatible with Windows 10, Mac OS 10.x and Linux kernel v2.4
• Crystal-less design for bill-of-materials cost savings
• Built-in 3.3V/2.5V/1.8V/1.2V voltage regulators
• Supports LED for indicating access status
• 68-pin QFN package

Silicon Motion is showcasing SM3282 in the company’s Computex 2019
private suite and will be sampling to customers in June 2019. For more
information or to request samples, please contact your Silicon Motion
Sales representatives or go to www.siliconmotion.com.

About Silicon Motion:
We are the global leader in supplying
NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices and the merchant
leader in supplying SSD controllers. We have the broadest portfolio of
controller technologies and our controllers are widely used in embedded
storage products such as SSDs and eMMC+UFS devices, which are found in
smartphones, PCs and commercial and industrial applications. We have
shipped over six billion NAND controllers in the last ten years, more
than any other company in the world. We also supply customized
high-performance hyperscale data center and industrial SSD solutions.
Our customers include most of the NAND flash vendors, storage device
module makers and leading OEMs. For further information on Silicon
Motion, visit us at www.siliconmotion.com.

Contacts

Corporate Media Contact:
Minnie Lin
Director of Marketing
Communication Department
Tel: +886 2 2219 6688 x3010
E-mail: minnie.lin@siliconmotion.com

Sales & Marketing Communications Contact:
Robert Fan
President
of SMI USA
Tel: +1 408 519 7219
E-mail: rfan@siliconmotion.com