Intel has a new flash memory I/O acceleration system - codenamed Braidwood - coming for its CPUs, according to reports from Computex in Taiwan.
It is a flash memory cache, possibly up to 16GB capacity, that caches I/O from the processor so that data in the I/O is available more quickly when it is next needed. Intel first tried …
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.
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Intel tries again with flash cache
Intel has a new flash memory I/O acceleration system - codenamed Braidwood - coming for its CPUs, according to reports from Computex in Taiwan. It is a flash memory cache, possibly up to 16GB capacity, that caches I/O from the processor so that data in the I/O is available more quickly when it is next needed. Intel first tried …
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Posted Monday 8th June 2009 10:56 GMT
Anonymous Coward
ohhh - in a good way #
how long till they can move the whole os onto a seperate dedicated SAS array !
and leave our storage devices for storage and whatnot !
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 11:30 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@ my fellow AC #
how about the whole OS lives in some chips on the motherboard. You could call it something like, oh, I don't know "firmware".
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 12:10 GMT
Anonymous Coward
16GB flash? Woohoo, bring it on! #
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?
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 12:46 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@firmware #
would that be the BIOS your talking about ??
I was talking about an OS of a somewhat larger scale than dos :P
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 17:11 GMT
Stephen Cole
i5 #
Lynnfield ie core i5 comes out in September along with the P55 chipset mobo's... not in 2010.
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 23:04 GMT
Chris C
P55 #
"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.
Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 06:31 GMT
Fazal Majid
Obsolete before arrival #
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.
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