Have your eye on a work laptop with a solid state drive? You may want to hold on a bit, because Intel just announced its next-generation solid state disks Tuesday--at a 42 percent price cut compared with the previous models.
InformationWeek is reporting that the price cut resulted from Intel moving from a 50-nanometer manufacturing process to a 34-nm process for its NAND flash memory. The 34-nm process makes the die smaller and allows for more advanced engineering. "Our goal was to not only be first to achieve 34-nm NAND flash memory lithography, but to do so with the same or better performance than our 50-nm version," Randy Wilhelm, VP and general manager of the Intel NAND Solutions Group, said in a statement.
The SSDs will be available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes, at 80GB and 160GB capacities. The 2.5-inch disks are available as of today; the 1.8-inch drives (which are really for gadgets like the iPod touch, and not for laptops) will be available later in the summer. Intel claims the 2.5-inch drives will support Windows 7 when it ships in October via a firmware update, the report said.
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