Micron Technology, Inc., expands its automotive storage solutions portfolio with the introduction of their M500IT solid-state drive (SSD) in densities ranging from 60GB to 240GB and embedded multimedia card (eMMC) 5.0 memory. Both solutions are specifically designed to enhance automotive applications.

Micron's M500IT solid state drive (SSD) is the industry's first automotive-grade SSD with AEC-Q100-compliant NAND flash memory components and system-level qualification in select automotive applications and conditions. The M500IT is dramatically faster than hard disk drive (HDD) technologies, enabling nearly instantaneous system response times and fast application loads that are critical to the increasingly media-rich automotive experience. The M500IT SSD also includes hardware-based encryption, data-at-rest protection against unexpected power loss and an adaptive thermal monitoring system to secure user data at extended temperatures. The M500IT SSD uses AEC-Q100-compliant NAND flash memory technology and customized firmware to provide high quality and high performance for demanding automotive applications.

As a vertically integrated supplier, Micron builds its SSDs from start to finish, with the unique ability to ensure end-to-end quality and design SSDs with application-optimized memory components. Micron's expertise in DRAM, NOR and NAND Flash memory technologies translates seamlessly to their SSDs, providing the quality, reliability and application expertise that only a trusted memory manufacturer can provide.

The M500IT SSD is in qualification at focused automotive platform suppliers with broader availability planned for mid-2015.

Automotive eMMC 5.0 Memory
Micron's eMMC 5.0 provides the level of quality, innovation and service required by automotive application designers. eMMC 5.0 customers benefit from supply longevity, long-term customer support and Micron's commitment to a zero-defect methodology. Micron's eMMC products are fully managed NAND solutions with built-in controllers and industry-standard interfaces, simplifying hardware and software integration and streamlining the development and qualification process for designers.

Micron's expanded automotive eMMC product line supports the growing requirements of navigation and infotainment applications, such as 3D mapping, environmental reporting (e.g., infrastructure, traffic, meteorological) car radio, multimedia, satellite radio, E-call and voice recognition. Micron's automotive eMMC offering also features a full range of JEDEC-compliant packages in densities ranging from 4GB to 128GB. Micron's eMMC 4.51 product family is already in volume production with leading automotive OEMs; the 5.0 solution is currently sampling with mass production planned for late 2015.