In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it second, AMD quietly dropped distribution and help for the corporate’s StoreMI software program at first of this month. The expertise, launched again in 2018, was AMD’s reply to Apple’s Fusion Drive and different hybrid drive applications that enable a SSD and a HDD to be merged right into a single logical quantity. However it seems like AMD has determined to take a special route with their hybrid drive efforts, as the corporate has dropped the software program in favor of one other program that’s anticipated to be launched this quarter.
In a product change advisory printed to their web site final month (however solely seen not too long ago), AMD introduced that they might be halting the distribution of and help for the StoreMI software program. The software program itself would proceed to work, however beginning March 31st, however AMD wouldn’t be offering the means for any new installations after that date, nor would they be offering help.
A comparatively clear break like that is relatively unusual for many CPU vendor software program, however given what we learn about StoreMI, it’s not too stunning. StoreMi got here out of an current relationship between AMD and Enmotus, a software program developer who had already created their related FuzeDrive software program that AMD was, for a time, recommending to be used with their programs. So whereas it’s finally an inside matter for AMD, it seems like the corporate has determined to wrap up their relationship with Enmotus – which might imply that AMD would now not have the rights to distribute the software program.
In its place, the PCA reveals that the corporate is “focus[ing] its internal development resources on a replacement solution,” which is about to be launched this quarter. The proven fact that AMD is explicitly noting the usage of “internal” assets, in flip, strongly means that regardless of the firm is engaged on, it’s an in-house resolution relatively than a licensed resolution like StoreMi. Which means AMD has presumably began from scratch right here, however it could even be quite a bit cleaner with respect to possession and all of the related points that include it (StoreMi famously solely allowed SSD partitions as much as 256GB, with the intention to not undermine Enmotus’s industrial software program).
At any price, barring any delays, we must be seeing the fruits of AMD’s software program labors within the subsequent couple of months.
