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Intel tries again with flash cache

Anonymous Coward

ohhh - in a good way 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 10:56 GMT

how long till they can move the whole os onto a seperate dedicated SAS array !

and leave our storage devices for storage and whatnot !

Anonymous Coward

@ my fellow AC 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 11:30 GMT

how about the whole OS lives in some chips on the motherboard. You could call it something like, oh, I don't know "firmware".

Anonymous Coward

16GB flash? Woohoo, bring it on! 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 12:10 GMT

Joke

Now we are talking. The whole OS, applications and whatnot now goes straight to cache running at 1.3GHz+. Cool. No more DDR3 ram to buy now, heh?

At this size, the cache BECOMES the main memory, right?

Seriously, didn´t you mean 16MB (instead of GB) cache?

Can you imagine the size of the uncore to fit this sucker? How long before a OS seller creates an OS so large that will occupy that sort of size too?

Anonymous Coward

@firmware 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 12:46 GMT

Happy

would that be the BIOS your talking about ??

I was talking about an OS of a somewhat larger scale than dos :P

Stephen Cole

i5 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 17:11 GMT

Lynnfield ie core i5 comes out in September along with the P55 chipset mobo's... not in 2010.

Chris C

P55 

Posted Monday 8th June 2009 23:04 GMT

"Our understanding is that the P55 is one of five models in the single chip 5-Series chipset family...".

That's funny. My understanding is that the P55 was the Pentium with MMX instructions.

Fazal Majid

Obsolete before arrival 

Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 06:31 GMT

SSDs will make this obsolete before it arrives. I doubt there will be many laptops apart from the very low-end that are still sold with rotating hard drives by the end of 2010.