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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by baybal2 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:21AM (#24837589)
There is a lot of flash makers, way, way more than DRAM makers. And there is tons of flash going to things other than PCs, unlike DRAM. Regular DDR DRAM only goes to high-end desktop PCs, and servers, with few laptops. Everything else has switched to the LP-DDR line even if there is no explicit need for energy saving (LPDDR4 may actually cost you less than regular DDR4 these days, especially given the extra for DIMM/SO-DIMM, through hole sockets, assembly cost, and wasted PCB space).
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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by inasio on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:42AM (#24838673)
Intel was not the first to NAND flash, but they pretty much started the SSD revolution with the first truly revolutionary SSD. I still remember Anand's review of the first X-25M (only 100GB) [0], immediately becoming the standard-bearer for the SSD revolution.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/2614

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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:17PM (#24841298)
I remember mid 1990's announcements from Intel's research partnership group that non-volatile flash ram drives were about to roll out to the consumer market.

By late 1990s the press releases dropped off and the idea of consumers running solid state drives went pOoF! for another decade.

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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by wtallis on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:19PM (#24840667)
Intel's been focusing their flash development and production specifically for their enterprise SSDs. While you can find Intel flash in some third-party drives, it's not particularly common. And even when Intel and Micron were still partnered for NAND, it was Micron that wanted to make smaller-capacity dies for use in things like smartphones and memory cards. Intel's been all about big dies for big drives. This is really evident if you look at their market share in terms of SSD units shipped and in terms of SSD bytes shipped. Intel's average drive capacity in Q2 was almost three times that of Hynix.
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