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Intel bowing out of the SSD market??

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I was talking to a component distributor today about SSDs. He said the buzz he has heard recently is that Intel is going to be getting out of the SSD market in the future.

Anyone else hear this?

I did hear that they were going to utilize a Sandforce controller instead of their own, but nothing about completely abandoning the SSD market.
 
Crazy talk. They just rolled out new lines in SSD. They make tons selling the components to other manufacturers, why stop now?

Sandforce isn't the end all be all for SSD - others are almost as fast - and prefer reliability over marginal speed increases that many users will never see. Once SSD is cheap enough for the masses - it will be a MUCH bigger cash cow than it already is.

Take off your enthusiast goggles and see where the real money is, wide deployment in desktop, notebook, and tablets..
 
Yeah . . . H-P was going to get out of the PC hardware business. Two weeks later that was reversed by the CEO. There is a lot floundering going on due to the uncertainty of the economy and politics related thereto. Buzz is cheap, but nothing would surprise me these days.
 
Intel has said the main reason they entered the consumer SSD market in the first place was because hard drives were the main thing holding back performance in modern desktop systems - to the point that they felt it was not allowing people to feel the benefit of a faster processor.

Their intent was to spur the market and now that that has occurred, their purpose has been fulfilled.

You should expect them to slowly retreat from the consumer SSD market. They will still make enterprise-grade SSDs however, and I'm sure there will be little to stop you from using one of those in your desktop rig (other than price).
 
It's also very likely that Intel's SSD efforts in the consumer SSD arena will slow down when they begin to fully focus on putting a NAND based disk cache onto MOBOs.
 
This sucks, there is no one to take the reliability crown! Will probably upgrade to their latest and greatest once they make the official announcement. I hope Intel at least keeps the server-grade SSDs.
 
Intel is honestly pulling an HP here in pussying out of a market that they could own if they had the drive to.

With that said, from what I've read, they're probably stopping/slowing down controller development, but will still make SSD's with other controllers. Their next one is supposed to use a Sandforce controller.
 
ozzy702 said:
I hope Intel reconsiders. I have no interest in running a sandforce based SSD as my primary OS drive.
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then don't buy that model. No one said anything about them using Sandforce controllers exclusively.

Just another alternative and notch on their belt to broaden their horizons, is all it is.
 
Intel was never interested in becoming a storage company like Seagate or WD. They want to sell chips. They are doing well selling their NAND to other SSD companies. Once they sell it, it's done and is profit for Intel. It's not quite yet profit for the SSD companies until they sell it to us.

Another thing is the SATA interface. Everyone can max it out sequentially and it's amazing the latency good SSDs get. Current SSDs haven't improved much on reducing latency even on the old 2009 G2. The only thing left is to try and reduce latency off the SATA interface, but it may be better introducing a dedicated solid state interface instead.

Either way, less time waiting for a computer is good for all.
 
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