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No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buy-our-laptops dept.

Might E Mouse writes "While Intel's 3-series chipsets support Robson/Turbo Memory, the general consensus amongst motherboard manufacturers at Computex is that we're not going to see the technology on the desktop until next year at the earliest. Working modules are on display at the show, but they're not going to be available to buy for a while."

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  1. Turbo Memory is... by phantomcircuit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Intel Turbo Memory lets your notebook actually learn your habits to provide better system response. That's because it stores frequently used information near the processor, where it's more quickly available. Better CPUs run better with Intel Turbo Memory.


    This entirely new system innovation for Windows Vista PCs is based on Performance Intel® NAND Flash Memory (like the memory in an iPod* or USB 'thumb' drive), together with supporting software. It works alongside your system's RAM to increase the efficiency of data movement between the processor and hard disk.



    http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/turbomemory /index.htm">Intel® Turbo Memory

    1. Re:Turbo Memory is... by Vellmont · · Score: 5, Informative


      I wonder what makes it notable? Size? cost? speed?

      High throughput, low latency. Don't know about cost.

      It's basically the perfect hibernate cache that doesn't require power to maintain it's state, and will give near instant uptimes. You could also gain a bit from caching disk reads.

      It seems a large enough main ram would invalidate this or even the mere presence of on chip cache.

      RAM is volatile unless you constantly supply power. Because of this you can't rely on the information to still be their when you come back to a full power state.

      Basically this little device would allow people to turn off their PC completely, and power it back up into a fully functional state. You can sort of do that now, but it means either maintaining a little power to the memory to maintain state, or spending an interminable time writing out to disk.

      Of course, that means that driver writers need to actually support resuming from sleep, which many today don't properly support.

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  2. TheInquirer.org contradicts this.. by lippyjka · · Score: 5, Informative

    What the hell?; The inquirer posted an article about how MSI is going to bundle MSI to bundle Intel Robson cards with motherboards: http://theinquirer.org/default.aspx?article=40178. Who to believe? Bit-tech.net or TheInquirer.org..... I'm personally going with the inquirer...