Stardate 20010926.1136 (On Screen): Intel has announced a new form of Flash memory which they say will be very useful for cell phones and PDAs. For PDA's it does in fact look pretty good, but I'm less impressed with it for phones. The advantage it offers is retrieval bandwidth, but that's not really the driving factor in memory choice for phone applications. The most important criteria are, in order: price, power consumption, size and weight, followed by speed. I see no suggestion here that this form of memory will be cheaper or use less power. That said, I see this mainly as an assault on AMD, whose flash memory business has been a cash cow subsidizing its assault, in turn, on Intel's microprocessor business. Wheels within wheels...
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