Toshiba Memory Europe and OSR Enterprises extend collaboration

The cooperation aims to create a “Datacentre on Wheels” with high-density and low-power solid state drives.

OSR’s EVOLVER is a high-performance central "AI brain" for ultra-smart, autonomous and securely networked vehicles. The hardware and software platform has sought to reinvent the in-vehicle architecture, and operates as a central data hub which stores, processes and analyses real-time data for artificial intelligence and analytical insights.

The data and information are crucial for autonomous driving, customised user-experiences and is seen as providing the foundation for new automotive business models.

One of the elements supporting this capability is an advanced high-density in-car storage, hence the collaboration with Toshiba Memory Europe which contributes to OSR’s ability to meet the increasing demand of its customers for managing growing amounts of data.

The combination of the technologies ensures that the development cycles of OSR’s OEM customers are shortened, while retaining robustness for a solid development process.

Toshiba Memory’s Flash Technology features high performance, low latency and high-density solid-state drives. The company's CM5 NVM Express (NVMe) is built with its latest 64 layer, 3-bit-per-cell enterprise-class TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH.

This, combined with selectable power modes in Toshiba Memory’s SSDs, allows the thermal performance and heat dissipation of the system to be improved. Additionally, optimal operation and data integrity is provided by its advanced power loss protection technology within the storage components in OSR’s “Datacentre on Wheels”.

“Through OSR’s EVOLVER our NVMe based SSDs can be leveraged into new markets to effectively address big data demands. This collaboration enhances performance capabilities and creates new opportunities. We are excited that our high-performance NVMe SSDs combined with OSR’s elite EVOLVER technology create a unique segmental solution for carmakers around the world, an actual “Datacentre on wheels”, said Paul Rowan, Vice President SSD Business Unit of Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH.