At-A-Glance
2011 Chairperson's Message
Tom Coughlin
President
Coughlin Associates
Flash memory today serves as the storage medium in popular mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. It has also enabled a vast array of products, including embedded systems, consumer storage cards, cache memory, and SSDs for both computer and enterprise applications.
The 2011 Flash Memory Summit has sessions exploring many types of flash applications, including enterprise, embedded, data center, and consumer applications. It also covers SSD controllers, flash storage architectures, reliability, performance, and testing. We have organized the sessions into coherent tracks so attendees can readily identify the ones most relevant to their needs. There will also be a Pre-Conference Workshop on Flash Security and a seminar on Introduction to SSDs, plus a special session celebrating the history of flash memory at Intel (25 years ago). .
Technologies such as flash will be major drivers in economic recovery and growth. Coughlin Associates forecasts that by 2015 over 400 exabytes (1021 bytes) of flash memory will ship into consumer applications. Objective Analysis projects that “The combined market for NAND and NOR flash in all segments will reach record revenues exceeding $25 billion in 2011 with growth being fueled by video capture and distribution. Upcoming changes to data storage architectures in both PCs and enterprises could drive the market past $60 billion by 2015.”
Engineers, marketers, and executives all face new challenges. How do you design effectively with flash? What new products can you create—what is the next iPad? How do you manage and secure content? How long does the stored data last and how can you increase its lifespan? Find the answer to these and many other questions at the Flash Memory Summit.
We look forward to seeing you there!
