Analyst firm In-Stat claims that OEMs will move to hybrid
flash-hard disk drives by 2011.
In a report the company claims PC
makers are speeding up a their move to solid state memory and hybrid drives
are seen as stage one of the process.
While PC makers are expected
convert rather quickly to either Turbo Memory NAND HDD caches or to hybrid
hard drives, we do not anticipate
this to be high on the list of priorities
of the computer-buying public
In-Stat said.
However In-Stat thinks
Microsoft, Intel and Samsung
will
be the early adopters.
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