Intel and Hitachi will jointly develop solid state drive memory devices. Intel plans to manufacture the SSDs while Hitachi will sell the devices. The SSD memory devices serve as an alternative to hard disk drives.
Intel Corp and Hiatchi Ltd announced plans to jointly develop solid state drive memory devices. The new SSDs are set to be an alternative to hard disk drives.
SSD memory devices are currently used in some laptops. Laptop makers prefer the memory devices because they absorb shocks and consume less power than ordinary hard disk drives. The new solid state drives will also offer a number of architectural breakthroughs and performance improvements.
"Hitachi GST will continue to provide customers with a proven set of products tailored to meet the high-performance, high-reliability requirements of today's data center," Shinjiro Iwata, executive vice president of strategic business operations at Hitachi, said in a statement.
While the new technology does threaten the existence of hard disk drives, it actually complements it. The SSDs are intended for use in storage applications that require extremely high performance and power efficiency. However, large enterprise solutions will probably favor SSDs more than hard disk drives.
Intel plans to manufacture the SSDs while Hitachi GST will sell the devices. The first shipment of the new solid state drive memory devices will be in 2010.
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