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To: NightOwl who wrote (14409)	8/12/2009 2:27:27 PM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) of 14464

Why for instance could they not design a 8-32Mb F-RAM+mcu SoC to serve as a high end cache/controller for the SSD market? With the costs of SSDs and the performance bonus they could offer who would even notice a $10-$40/unit price hit? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Sun is literally begging FLASH makers to forget throwing so much cash at short endurance and unreliable MLC FLASH at the bleeding edge of fab design rules and start producing a product that the enterprise storage market can rely on at a rational price: eetimes.com There's a market begging to be served. They are even willing to eat the cost of the SSD Flash modules they buy and pass them on to their customers gratis. But has anybody bothered to talk to Marvell about adding a little F-RAM to their controllers as a metafile cache? Better still why not talk to current customers like Promise Technology or Quantum about putting together such a controller for the SSD market. Or ask all of them. Give a presentation to Sun and some of their select customers and have them pull a group of interested OEMs together. It sounds to me like these people could give a rats patoot about the process node used in their memory chips. They want cheap. There's got to be some old depreciated 90nm NAND fab equipment sitting around IBM's factories collecting rust. These people would probably be willing to front the development/equipment costs to get the kind of product they want at a reasonable price. At least they would if it were/could be offered to them before someone tosses a 1T-FeNAND into the market and settles every body's hash... But shoot... What do I know. Why bother... Looks like there's always a greater fool... ready to throw their pennies at a penny stock with penny products. 0\|0

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