SandForce Sold Again

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The corporate overlords of SandForce SSD controllers have changed hands again. Seagate, who was missing an SSD controller of its own, will become the new home. The following list gives a brief history of the numerous mergers involved:
  • 1999 - HP's non-computing products division spun out as Agilent
  • August 2005 - Agilent semiconductor products group spun out as Avago
  • January 2012 - SandForce sold to LSI ($370 million)
  • 2014 - LSI sold to Avago ($6.6 billion)
  • May 2014 - Avago SSD division sold to Seagate ($450 million)
Because of easy licensing and not being tied to a particular NAND manufacturer, SandForce SSD controllers are very popular and have found their way into many product lines , including:
  • Intel 520, 530, 535, 330, 335
  • Kingston HyperX, HyperX 3K, SSDNow E100, SSDNow KC100, SSDNow V+200, SSDNow V300
  • Corsair Force Series
  • OCZ Vertex 3, Agility 3, RevoDrive
  • And many others...
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Have been using an Intel 330 (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-30 12:35 (#1Z1)

in a 2008 aluminum Macbook for more than a year now and it works well. I understand that Intel put some extra work into validating the SandForce controller, but Seagate may have picked up a decent foundation for moving forwards.