Iomaniacs just do not understand the portable market.
Just check out this article:
pubs.cmpnet.com
There is an oversupply of portable memory products right now. Iomaniacs better not pin their hopes on this product that is just going to add more overcapacity to the entire niche.
"Getting a head start in new applications is crucial for Intel's flash business. The 32- and 64-Mbit Strataflash devices are too dense for cell phones or PC BIOS, the bulk of the flash market today. It will be three to six years before those applications will need that density, Nichols said.
Intel is also betting that Strataflash will help boost its flash revenue and margins. Though it remains the top supplier, Intel's flash sales last year fell 13 percent to $800 million as a result of a price war spurred by overcapacity."
As far as performance of Flash goes, here are some specs for the latest Intel product, "StrataFlash":
"Perhaps most important, the company claims its parts are specified for 100,000 program/erase cycles, not the 10,000 cycles of the first batch of devices. Access speeds have gone from 150 to 100 nanoseconds, lowest temperature range fell from 0 to -20øC and the 90-mA current specification for writes and erase operations fell to 60 and 70 mA."
Folks, this is called ruggedness and speed, and low-power consumption. 100 nanoseconds? Jeez, that is about 1000 times faster than Vapor!
And this next statement succinctly states why NO OEM's have bought Vapor!:
"Our customers tell us they will not forsake reliability for price," said Kevin Plouse, director of technical marketing for AMD's non-volatile memory group (Sunnyvale, Calif.). "That means never losing one single bit of memory and data, which can be aggravated by [low] endurance."
Folks, due to the laws of physics, any disc drive like Vapor! will be less reliable, have lower endurance, and use more power than a solid state device like Flash.
Vapor! is just plain D.O.A. |
