Swissbit targets high-end SSDs

Known by its wide product line, Swissbit, the European leader in Flash media and SSD, has accelerated its strategy for enterprises and data centers market segments. In 2021, the company has acquired the German company Hyperstone, a SATA controller player for SSDs, to confirm its move. But SATA is definitely not enough for this demanding area with PCIe 4, 5 and soon 6 and NVMe. NVMe was a big change for storage infrastructure also with its network companion. It helps to fill the gap between the access performance need and the capability provided by internal devices. For our readers, it's worth mentioning that NVMe provides a series of a significant improvements with number of 64k queues and 64k commands per queue which is a big gap with SATA with a single queue and 32 commands and SAS still with a single queue and 256 commands. Coupled with PCIe, the performance delivered its massive with examples like 14,000 MB/s for sequential read, 10,000MB/s for sequential write, 3,200K IOPS in random read from a FADU SSD example.

More recently with the AI pressure but also its opportunity, the firm has chosen to partner with Burlywood Technology, a Colorado-based specialist, founded in 2015 with a minimum of $20 million raised, to enter the enterprise and data center SSD segment. It was announced in September 2022. Since that, it appears that Burlywood disappeared and it seems that Swissbit silently absorbed Burlywood. In fact, Swissbit acquired the asset and some of employees joined the German band like Tod Earhart, the founder, original CEO and later CTO of Burlywood. The company has been shutdown after this move and obviously the web site is not longer accessible.

We expect NVMe SSD for data center and enterprises in the next few quarters, in 2025.