IDF – Power efficient, speedy storage
Rounding out the announcements at IDF, Intel made a formal foray into the Solid State Disk (SSD) space.
If you can cast your mind back a couple of years, you will remember that SSDs were nothing more that a dream, one that wasn’t likely to come true because of flash memory being ridiculously more expensive than magnetic disk.
But then flash-based thumb drives caught on and this industry began gaining the economies of scale to change all that.
Although flash is still ‘megabyte for megabyte’ much more expensive than magnetic disk, it’s getting cheaper – so cheap in fact that the past year has seen solid state disks making their way into Apple’s Macbook Air and Lenovo’s ThinkPad X300 to name but two notebooks.
