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Intel SSD's in new Apple products? |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 Intel hinted that they will be releasing a Solid State Drive (SSD) that will go from 80GB to 160GB in April of this year. They did not disclose if the drives would be available for retail or through a PC manufacturer though. This beats out Toshiba's and Samsung's estimates or SSD drives for the beginning of the year and will really help Intel. Intel has had poor performance in the SSD area, mainly because they have been focusing on the USB protocol with mobile devices. Their SATA 3.0 technology claims to decrease power consumption by 4.5 times and to increase read-write speed by 2 times.
Samsung and Toshiba hold 70% of the flash memory in 2007. Intel wants in and so does everyone else. Intel is also banking on SATA 3.0 to relieve any transfer bottlenecks, so alot of this is up in the 'Air'. But, if Intel is going to release an 80 or 160 GB SSD hard drive, and their Atom processor, it looks like there could be some really cool, really low power hardware coming out with an Apple logo soon, like say, April?
Intel's pre-announcement
NAND figures for 2007
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