IDF 2008: Intel firms flash drive plans
By Mary Branscombe in San Francisco,
“We have a deep understanding of flash, we have a deep understanding of computing and we developed a controller from the ground up, spending tens of man years on firmware development . When you’re going into the computing environment it’s a whole different game from providing the large block transfers that USB [sticks] are handling today.”
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SSDs have taken a long time to reach the market, prices have stayed high and there have been questions about how long flash will last and whether it will really deliver extra performance and battery life.
If Intel’s controller is as good as the company claims, it will mean high-capacity drives at lower prices that actually deliver the benefits of flash storage.
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