As illustrated by the capture, those SSDs will use a SATA 3 interface, while consuming 4.5x less power than HD. In addition, Intel reports twice writing speed and access time 10 to 50 fold faster.
One should not be surprise to see Intel entering SSD market, especially considering its current joint venture with ST Microelectronics. Intel will arrive late on this emerging market, with Samsung and SanDisk being already there as the main players. However, Intel might develop its own Flash-to-SATA controller to optimize and bring the best from SSD to consumers. When Intel will launch first SSD, we can expect price of such solid state storage unit to drop, and maybe at the same time, could we expect Apple to launch the long-rumored subnotebook model which would be based on SSD and powered by Penryn ULV CPUs.
