Troy Winslow, Marketing Manager of the NAND Products Group at Intel, revealed some interesting inside information to our colleagues at CNET.
While the company already mentioned its intention of commercializing SATA-II SSDs (3.0 Gbits/s) starting this year in addition to
USB and
PATA models destined for UMPCs, up until now it wasn’t too clear on the future flagship product of its line.
In fact, this product should be in 1.8" and 2" ½ format with capacities ranging from 80 to 160 GB. In terms of performances, they ought to be
much better than the 100 MB/s attained by some Samsung SSDs in reading. Intel’s manager does not hide his enthusiasm and furthermore stresses the optimal functioning of the controller and firmware integrated by the Californian manufacturer in its next SSDs which should use multi-level (MLC) Flash NAND.
