[Vision2020] Tech news: solid-state drives

Kai Eiselein, Editor editor at lataheagle.com
Tue Aug 19 14:54:47 PDT 2008


Didn't someone already design, and build computers for students in third 
world countries to use that incorporated flash drives instead of EM drives??
If so, Intel is getting on the bus second.

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From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:33 PM
To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Tech news: solid-state drives

> IDF San Francisco — Today, Intel revealed the outlines of its plans to 
> enter
> the market for flash-based solid-state drives by announcing a trio of new
> products and their basic specs.
>
> Technical details at this URL:
> http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15346
>
> The first product should be available in a month or two, and the latter 
> two
> next year. Pricing is yet unknown, but likely starting closer to executive
> bling than chocolate chips.
>
> This announcement may be one for your history notes -- the beginning of 
> the
> end of dominance of the electromechanical hard drive for data storage.
>
>
> Ken
>
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