While Intel has already clearly expressed its desire to sell SSDs with the Atom Centrino Menlow platform as well as revealing its projects for the professional market, we didn’t know that they also had ideas for notebooks.
According to
Digitimes, the Santa Clara firm will start to offer SSDs with the Centrino 2 platform bundle in the third quarter. There will be at least two models: the Client X25-M and Client X18-M in 2" ½ and 1.8" format, respectively. They will have an SATA interface and 80 GB capacity. In the fourth quarter, a 160 GB version should be launched and there is mention of a 250 GB and higher for 2009.
This is in perfect harmony with recent statements from Troy Winslow, the marketing manager of Intel’s NAND Products Group. He mention that his company will do
much better than the 100 MB/s attained by certain Samsung SSDs in reading.
