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E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI SSD combines up to 1.6TB pure solid state storage capacities with 30,000 IOPS and a lightning-speed sustained throughput of up to 230 MB/sec to deliver highly reliable and performance-driven storage solutions for enterprise, military, and industrial applications

WEST 2008, San Diego, CA — February 5, 2008 — BiTMICRO Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash solid state storage solutions continues its relentless pursuit for storage innovation with the announcement of the E-Disk® Altima™ E3S320 solid state flash disk. Claiming its seat as the manufacturer of the world’s first Ultra320 SCSI flash drive, this time the E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI drive will offer an astounding 1.6 terabytes of storage capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor, a most welcome development for the highly demanding enterprise, military and industrial applications.

The E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI flash SSD is expected to deliver a rigid host of storage advantages, including sustained data transfer rates of up to 230 MB/sec (peaking at 320 MB/sec in burst mode). The E3S320 flash solid state drive will utilize single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash which, when combined with BiTMICRO’s patented wear leveling and proprietary BCH Error Correction Code technologies, delivers unprecedented data integrity and drive longevity.

Given their mission critical nature and hostile operating environments, military, aerospace and industrial applications impose higher performance, security, and reliability standards for storage. E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI solid state drive’s rugged specifications are projected to exceed these requirements by far, with operating temperatures between –40 degrees C to 85 degrees C, operating shock of up to 1500 Gs, and patented securErase® and PowerGuard® technologies.

“Ruggedness has always been the strength of flash SSDs in the military market, and the forthcoming addition of the E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SSD to BiTMICRO’s line-up will shore up the company’s support for I/O intensive and high-capacity applications,” remarked Rudy Bruce, Executive Vice President for Marketing and Sales at BiTMICRO Networks. “This is a huge technological leap that virtually erased the advantages of other storage solutions in terms of capacity and performance,” Bruce explained.

"Military, industrial, and enterprise applications need rugged, reliable, and high performance storage solutions manufactured to their strict requirements," says Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager for Solid State Drives at IDC. "SSDs deliver in these demanding applications that are not well served by other storage solutions. IDC expects over 60% of the worldwide SSD revenue in 2008 to come from these market segments."

Visit BiTMICRO Networks at Booth 605 of WEST 2008. WEST 2008 is the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. The event runs from February 5-7, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.

Sampling for the E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI solid state disk is expected to begin in Q2 2008 and will ship in volume by Q3 2008 in capacities ranging from 16GB to 1.6TB. For pricing and more E-Disk® Altima™ flash drive solid state disk storage technology information, visit http://www.bitmicro.com or contact BiTMICRO at 47929 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538 USA. Sales Telephone: +1 510-74E-DISK / +1 510-743-3475, Fax: +1 510-743-3155. E-mail: info@bitmicro.com.

About EDSA™ and LUNETA™
The Enhanced Datamover and Storage Accelerator (EDSA) flash I/O controller (FIC) is a proprietary ASIC that succeeds the highly successful disk controller chipset of BiTMICRO’s electronic disk technology. The EDSA™ FIC supports large block NAND (SLC or MLC) and AND flash as well as single, dual, quad-die flash devices, allowing BiTMICRO to hike E-Disk® Altima™ solid state disk capacities to terabytes of pure flash memory.

EDSA™ goes hand in hand with the Logical Unifier of Extensive Transfer Arrays (LUNETA™) MFI, BiTMICRO’s proprietary flash memory management interface controller that is designed to orchestrate massively parallel and multi-block I/O operations on large arrays of flash devices. LUNETA™ supports both NAND (SLC or MLC) and AND types of flash memory and is typically used in designs to complement the EDSA™ DMC in applications that require scalability and management of larger amounts of flash devices.

About BiTMICRO Networks
BiTMICRO® Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com) is the leading provider of high performance non-volatile solid state disk and semiconductor solutions. The Company's flagship product, the E-Disk® SSD, is offered with SATA, SCSI Narrow and Wide, IDE/ATA and Fibre Channel interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprints, and 19-inch rack mount configurations scalable up to several terabytes of pure solid state storage.

E-Disk®, BiTMICRO®, Altima™, EDSA™ and LUNETA™ are registered trademarks and trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. High-resolution photo images of BiTMICRO's product line are available at http://www.bitmicro.com/press_multimedia.php.