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Information Technology News Big names push for flash cache standards
Information Technology News Big names push for flash cache standards | Big names push for flash cache standards |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 01 June 2007 | |
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"ONFI [Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group] formed last year to standardise the interface between the flash controller and the NAND itself, and standardising the register level interface between the flash controller and the operating system driver is the logical next step," said Rick Coulson, senior fellow and director of I/O Architecture at Intel. The inclusion of flash memory in PC designs has several advantages. By speeding access to cached data it can improve boot-up and resume times, speed application loading, and extend notebook battery life by reducing the number of times the hard drive must be spun up.
"Several NAND solutions are coming on the scene to take advantage of the ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive features of the Windows Vista operating system," said Bob Rinne, general manager of Windows Hardware Ecosystem at Microsoft. "Standardising on a common controller interface will enable more integrated operating system support of these solutions."
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