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Storage for Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing

PowerScale for Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing

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Infrastructure that reduces the time to market for the manufacture of electronics that will power the future digital world

As transistors keep shrinking and design complexity keeps growing, increased manufacturing complexity boosts risk and cost — making time-to-market even more critical. Our IT infrastructure solutions for semiconductor design and manufacturing deliver the performance, scalability, and efficiency to resolve these challenges and manage exponential data growth.

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Optimize semiconductor design and manufacturing workloads with scale-out storage

  • Predictability, scalability and performance are key when architecting storage infrastructure. Dell PowerScale storage allows you to forecast and prevent performance bottlenecks, scale in capacity linearly, and reduce management overhead.
  • PowerScale file storage along with Dell ECS object storage and Dell Streaming Data Platform provide a holistic solution to data management in a multicloud world.

The Pulse of the Semiconductor Market

Market Research The Pulse of the Semiconductor Market

This industry research report provides detailed analysis of the state of the market, with indications of where the industry is headed in the future.

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Storage solutions for semiconductor design and manufacturing



Dell storage solutions for semiconductor design reduce bottleneck, optimize concurrency, improve storage efficiency, centralize data lifecycle management to lower costs, and optimize a semiconductor chip's time to market.
Google Cloud and PowerScale transform semiconductor design models

Google Cloud and PowerScale transform semiconductor design models

As semiconductor companies change the way they go to market, engineer products, and generate revenue, the demand for highly scalable and performant storage and compute capabilities are ever increasing. Dell Technologies and Google are working together to make it easier to run electronic design automation (EDA) workloads in the cloud.

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All-flash performance to lower time to market for semiconductor workloads

All-flash performance to lower time to market for semiconductor workloads

PowerScale combines ultra-high performance all-flash storage, the latest Intel Xeon CPUs to support millions of semiconductor design data files. With PowerScale, organizations can see better turn-around time vs. alternative all-flash solutions. 

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An ideal infrastructure for powering innovation in the semiconductor industry

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PowerScale Leading scale-out NAS delivers performance at scale for semiconductor design workloads

For semiconductor design workloads, PowerScale eliminates controller bottlenecks to reduce wall-clock runtimes for concurrent jobs, scales in both performance and capacity linearly, improves storage efficiency to lower capital expenditures, centralizes management to reduce operating expenses, and delivers strategic advantages to reduce a chip's time to market.

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Semiconductor companies rely on Dell Technologies to accelerate business outcomes

Dell Technologies has a proven track record of excellence and a deep understanding of the semiconductor industry. We’re thrilled about the industry’s future and driving its innovations. 


  • 7 of 10

    Installed at 7 of the top 10 largest semiconductor companies by revenue

  • 50+

    Used by 50+ organizations for semiconductor design, embedded software development, EDA application development, and silicon chip manufacturing workloads

  • 500+

    Over 500 PBs of Dell scale-out storage have been deployed at semiconductor companies worldwide

Global Semiconductor Alliance

Global Semiconductor Alliance

Dell Technologies, a member of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), is committed to establish an efficient and sustainable semiconductor ecosystem and a platform for sharing of ideas and thought leadership to accelerate industry growth and maximize ROI for customers.

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)

As a member of the industry association SEMI, Dell Technologies is focused on speeding up time to market for customers by driving collaboration and innovation across the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain.

Shaping The Future of Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing

This eBook illustrates how a modern infrastructure can help electronics manufacturers innovate faster with lower risk and cost. 

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Predict storage cluster latency issues before they happen

This benchmark test with Dell Technologies partner AI Dynamics shows how latency forecasting, predictive AI, metrics and alert level customization can prevent storage bottlenecks.

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Top Reasons to Choose PowerScale for Semiconductor Design

PowerScale accelerates time-to-market by enabling the sharing of semiconductor data across the entire design workflow.

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The Pulse of the Semiconductor Market Research Report

This industry research report provides detailed analysis of the state of the market, with indications of where the industry is headed in the future.

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The Pulse of the Semiconductor Market Infographic

Research shows how semiconductor companies are addressing the accelerating demand for chips, and how engineers are using innovative technology to reduce semiconductor time-to-market and manage cybersecurity threats.

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