Transcend Wins Again at Taiwan’s National Invention and Creation Award

Transcend Information is proud to announce that one of its memory device patents has been awarded the prestigious "Silver Medal" for its exceptional innovation at the 2011 National Invention and Creation Award (NICA) competition organized by Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office. This cutting-edge patent, which pertains to the data access circuit and access method within non-volatile memory devices, has already been implemented throughout Transcend’s SSD product range, including industrial SSDs.

 

The award-winning patent describes an innovative method of improving read speed while increasing error tolerance capability. By having the main controller divide incoming data into multiple sub-data components, then saving each part within multiple memory blocks, a non-volatile memory device is able to efficiently increase its overall write speed. Additionally, since the primary controller (or sub-controllers) saves a backup of the sub-data in a plurality of memory blocks, loss or damage of sub-data can be effectively avoided, thereby increasing reliability of the storage device.

 

This invention has not only obtained a key patent in Taiwan, but has also won crucial patent certificates in both China and the USA. The technology has already been applied to the controller designs of Transcend's current consumer and industrial-grade SSD products.

 

Transcend's R&D team is well known for its superior innovation and design capability. With over 20 years of technical experience and expertise, Transcend has received many prestigious design awards, including Germany's iF and Red Dot awards, Japan's Good Design award and Taiwan's Innovation awards. Transcend was also awarded the NICA “Gold Medal” in 2010 for its retractable transfer interface design, and the “Silver Medal” in 2009.