Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Intel SSD

Chip Shot: Intel Ships New Solid-State Drives, Lowers Prices

Intel has announced the move to 34-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process for its award-winning NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD), the Intel® X25-M SATA SSD. Now shipping, it's aimed as a hard drive replacement for PCs and notebooks, delivering the same and in some cases better performance than its 50nm predecessor -- along with up to 60 percent lower prices. See the press release. This is after Intel announced on July 21, 2009 that Intel Corporation is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer (nm) manufacturing process for its leading NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive.