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Intel's Braidwood Could Crush SSD Market
Lucas123 writes "Intel is planning to launch its native flash memory module, code named Braidwood, in the first or second quarter of 2010. The inexpensive NAND flash will reside directly on a computer's motherboard as cache for all I/O and it will offer performance increases and other benefits similar to that of adding a solid-state disk drive to the system. A new report states that by achieving SSD performance without the high cost, Braidwood will essentially erode the SSD market, which, ironically, includes Intel's two popular SSD models. 'Intel has got a very good [SSD] product. But, they view additional layers of NAND technology in PCs as inevitable. They don't think SSDs are likely to take over 100% of the PC market, but they do think Braidwood could find itself in 100% of PCs,' the report's author said."
What does it do, scream "Nooooooooo!" and throw itself underneath the hard drive in slow motion?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
You know, I bet you are right on the money. I bet no one at Intel, this is Intel we are talking about here, has thought of that. Of the probably triple digit engineers they have working on projects related to this, and these are top level graduated-first-in-their-class engineers, I bet not a single one of them has though to test something as obvious as this.
Thanks postbigbang, you've saved computing once again!
Stop using a typewriter to post on Slashdot.
Signed, everyone.
With those triple-digit engineers, you'd also have thought they'd known how to get the P6 FPU to perform division properly too...