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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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