Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: iz (i.delete@this.z.x), December 20, 2011 6:29 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Wes Felter (wesley@felter.org) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>Seni (seniike@hotmail.com) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
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>In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should
>at least match a hard disk. But since that's considered high-end flash, maybe it wouldn't be cheaper.
ONFI doesn't say how fast a chip has to be, only how fast
the interface is. ONFI 2 interface was fast enough already
to match hard disks.
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>Seni (seniike@hotmail.com) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
>
>In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should
>at least match a hard disk. But since that's considered high-end flash, maybe it wouldn't be cheaper.
ONFI doesn't say how fast a chip has to be, only how fast
the interface is. ONFI 2 interface was fast enough already
to match hard disks.
