At the Flash Memory Summit, FMS23, Frore Systems was honored to receive the prestigious Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup Award for the development of AirJet® the world’s first solid-state active cooling chip.
The award “recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the memory and storage industry, awarding businesses on the entrepreneurial journey from inspiration and learning all the way through to startup, scale up and becoming a market disruptor and champion of the overall technology landscape”.
“We are honored and delighted to receive the FMS award for Most Innovative Startup.” said Dr. Seshu Madhavapeddy, founder and CEO of Frore Systems. “The Award reflects the widespread enthusiasm for AirJet® from the SSD industry and emphasizes how significantly AirJet is revolutionizing markets where performance is constrained by heat. The ability to manage heat, creating massive performance gains simply by adopting our easily integrated solid-state active cooling chip, is being embraced by manufacturers who have long struggled with the very real challenge of heat generated by their products.”
“SSD innovations that leverage the latest protocol and interface standards for connectivity with PCIe 5, NVMe and CXL, create the opportunity to achieve record breaking improvements in performance, but thermal factors can have a big impact on SSDs as performance has to be throtled back in order to prevent overheating and damage to the drive along with heightened concern of data loss.” said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. “We are proud to recognize Frore Systems as an emerging company with the world’s first solid-state chip for active device cooling while providing 3x improvement in performance.”
Heat is the single biggest problem facing the electronics industry, and SSDs are no exception. AirJet removes heat with breakthrough technology that meets the ever-increasing demands of consumers. In both consumer and professional applications, there is a rapidly growing requirement for improved performance which can only be realized through the effective removal of heat. Until now, manufacturers have been forced to rely on antiquated thermal solutions like noisy mechanical fans or bulky ineffective heat sinks to remove heat generated by the ever-increasing workloads. These inadequate thermal approaches cause systems to rapidly overheat, forcing reduced performance, throtling after only a few seconds of operation, preventing users from getting the full performance and experience they pay for.
The AirJet Mini is just 2.8mm thick, 27.5mm x 41.5mm in size, and weighs only 11 grams. AirJet is a scalable solution, with additional heat removal achievable by simply adding more AirJet chips. Each chip removes 5W of heat, and the easy integration of multiple chips means two chips can remove 10W, three chips 15W and so on. AirJet’s compact size and scalable nature means manufacturers can adopt the heat removal technology in a wide range of applications, enabling increased performance in faster, thinner, lighter, silent, and dustproof devices.
Frore Systems’ close collaboration with SSD industry leaders showcased three demonstrations of the major SSD performance gains unleashed by AirJet and clearly demonstrated why AirJet won the award:
The world’s fastest compact Gaming SSD with AirJet®: The Phison PS5026-E26 PCIe Gen5 SSD controller with I/O+ Technology actively cooled with 2 AirJet Minis, is the most powerful device in its class; with no throtling, 14,175MB/s sustained sequential read performance and over 1000MB/s PCMark 10 Storage Test performance - a world first for a NAND-based M.2 SSD. More details here.
Collaboration Partner: Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a global leader in NAND flash controller and storage solutions.
The world’s fastest 8TB Compact SSD Accessory with AirJet®: A Sabrent 8TB compact SSD accessory with AirJet® demonstrates a 3x sustained performance increase while lowering skin temperature by 20oC. More details here.
Collaboration Partner: Sabrent, a leading American manufacturer of computer peripherals and accessories.
The first compact 64TB SSD Storage device with AirJet®: A solution for fast, silent, large scale mobile data storage, the 64TB OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual storage device with silent active cooling using 8 AirJet Minis, unleashing performance and enabling the fastest, compact, 64TB capacity SSD storage device in its class. More details here.
Collaboration Partner: OWC a company dedicated to providing reliable solutions for computer hardware, accessories, and software.
