INTEL: is it the Microsoft of hardware companies?

[laesperanzapaz]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=1

If you want to know the ending first I won't make you wait. Intel absolutely delivered with its first SSDs. After I completed my initial testing of the drive I sent AnandTech Senior Editor, Gary Key a message:

"I think Intel just Conroe’d the HDD market."

Honestly, within 6 months I'd expect it to be just as important to have one of these drives in your system, as your boot/application drive, as it was to have Conroe in your system back in 2006. The only issue here, the only problem I have is the price. I was hoping for something much lower from Intel and although the pricing is justified based on the performance, it ensures that the X25-M like most high performance SSDs, remains a luxury item.

first CPUs, then mobos, integrated gfx, GPGPU/larrabeeeeee, OLPC knock offs, now SSDs??? WHat's next, RAM fabs?  the OLED monitor market?

[Tundra]

As somebody originally coming from the Amiga, i don't have much love for Intel (and for that, Windows as well).

But you have to acknowledge they are competent businessmen...