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Intel & Hitachi Cut SSD Joint Venture

The Japanese company intends to keep making conventional drives
By Maureen O'Gara
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December 5, 2008 09:00 AM EST
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Intel has cut a joint venture with Hitachi to make solid state drives (SSDs) for servers, high-end workstations and storage – not the consumer goods where such pricey widgetry is usually found these days.

Their first products, branded and sold exclusively by Hitachi, are supposed to appear early in 2010, putting the effort behind other SSD players.

Intel, which will split R&D costs with Hitachi, is trying to change its luck with Flash where it’s already lost a pretty penny because of a market glut.

It will be Hitachi’s first dive into SSD.

The Japanese company intends to keep making conventional drives.

The SSDs would service applications that require high-speed I/O that need power efficiency. SSDs are sturdier, faster and more power-efficient than conventional drives and if the price was competitive, well, traditional drives would be passé.

Intel will supply the chips – which it makes with Micron – and the packaging. Hitachi will supply the rest and integrate the stuff into useable systems.

The pair has to counter Samsung.

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