Intel Wants to be the Leader in SSD Market
As the world’s largest CPU maker, Intel has also made noticeable achievements in some other fields. The chip giant is confident that, with the popularity of SSDs growing, it will become the leading supplier.
“We want to be a leader in SSDs. We want to bring SSDs out of the niche markets and into the mainstream,” said Tom Rampone, the general manager of Intel’s NAND solutions group, reports EETimes.
Claiming to be the top player in the US retail SSD market and the second largest supplier worldwide, Intel collaborates with Micron to produce most advanced process technology possible.
“We do view NAND as a growth business. It is not strategically important to be the number (in terms of market share). Our focus is on technology. Technology leadership is our focus,” added Mr. Rampone.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Bring SSD into mainstream or Technology leadership? Intel does not seem to know what wants… to bring SSD into mainstream you need to start cutting hard the prices you ask for today…
February 8th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
$244 is not that expensive for the 80Gb just shop around for the best price. I have two of the X25-M G2 drives, they are well worth the money! The G1 drives were $595 each and I agree that was way too much!
February 9th, 2010 at 1:47 am
I would rather get 3×500GB HDD’s for that money.
February 9th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Intel makes the best SSDs.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Just wait until the G3s come out this year! Things are gonna even git better! Thanks intel your SSDs are awesome!
February 11th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
whats so awesome, price? It seems more reasonable to get some single platter 500GB HDDs, raid em or divide programs and stuff between em. I can’t find any good reviews that would show which is better bang for buck. In those reviews I found, either the SSD solution costs 4 times more or has 1/4 of the space. I want to see 4×500GB F3 HDDs vs single SSD for the same money.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:17 am
Expertview: maybe YOU don’t want speed over capacity, but most of us do. Take your old, unreliable, noisy, slow, crash-prone hard disk and I’ll take my new, reliable, silent, fast, crash-free SSD, thanks.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Someone once said only two conditions are truly infinite! The universe and human stupidity. It was Albert Einstein. The stupid die angry, contemptuous, cynical, ignorant unlived and unloved.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Thank you again Intel, you are absolute brilliance, mankind forward!
February 12th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
some brainwashed Intel zombies, since when is Intel the one who wants to bring prices down? Some 80GB SSD is not enough, you are going to need HDD anyway. And 4xHDD is faster, cheaper, more space. 256GB SSD for $999, no thanks. I own seagate 500GB 7200.12 single platter HDD, it is not noisy, hot or anything. My programs and files are on separate disks, I can run virus scan so that it doesn’t affect my performance in games or anywhere else. You’re probably some wannabe guy who can’t afford even some cheaper SSD. I have nothing against SSDs, but those prices need to drop, alot.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Expertview, those prices will drop at the right moment, when the tech will be more mature that is; Remember LCD screens? They costed a lot at first ad where nowhere near today’s panels, then they gradually got better and cheaper.
Also, 80GB may not be enough for you or everybody, but 90% of people I know don’t even use 40, maybe 60/70 tops if they have Vista.
Also 4xHD in RAID will not be faster in everyday tasks, especially if you connect them to the onboard controller or to a non hardware accelerated one, remember it’s much more about the access time and not about sheer transfer speed for most.
So your Seagate drives are not noisy, or hot or slow, but they are slower and hotter and noisier than any SSD out there.
Since you are happy about their performance you can wait out till SSD prices drop.
In conclusion Intel wants the prices to drop and will drop them as soon as their production costs will, so they will increase their profit by selling loads more SSDs at a reduced price.
February 14th, 2010 at 6:28 am
SSD drives are expensive because Intel is not capable of making it mainstream. There isn’t enough manufacturing capacity to supply the whole world with SSD’s. They will remain expensive for some time to come. I am guessing it will take another 2 process shrinks before they even start to become commonplace.