Intel's Braidwood: Death to SSDs?
Objective Analysis
August 1, 2009 62 Pages - SKU: OJA2427985
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In 2010 Intel will introduce Braidwood technology, placing NAND on the mother board and threatening SSDs in the PC, assuming that this is not a repeat of the Vista/Turbo Memory debacle, that is. Purchase this study to understand Braidwood, its potential market, competing technologies, and how the NAND, PC, HDD and DRAM markets will be impacted.
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- Contents
- Executive Summary
- What is Braidwood?
- What is ONFi?
- Braidwood Shown at June Computex
- Key Underlying Technologies
- Elements of a Standard HDD
- Caches and Memory Performance
- NAND’s Nonvolatile Advantage
- Problems with NAND
- NAND in the Memory Hierarchy
- Memory Hierarchy
- Hybrid HDDs
- Intel’s Robson or Turbo Memory
- Turbo Memory: What Went Wrong?
- Windows 7 Enhancements Incremental
- The Braidwood Approach
- Why Braidwood Makes Sense when SSDs Don’t
- Braidwood vs. SSD Bandwidth
- Benefits of a NAND Layer
- Power Consumption
- Access Speed
- Faster Boot-Up
- Speedy Program Launch
- Reliability
- Shock Tolerance
- Summing Up the Advantages
- Software Support is Required
- Why a Cache Needs Software Support
- Pinning and The “Instant-On” Myth
- Legacy Issues
- Alternatives to Braidwood
- Conventional Architecture (No NAND)
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Solid State Drives
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Increased DRAM Main Memory
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Cost Implications of Braidwood
- How NAND Costs will Add to PC Costs
- Cost vs. Benefits of Each Approach
- Consumer Reaction to Braidwood’s Cost
- Braidwood’s Future
- A Forecast for Braidwood Shipments
- Revenue Forecast
- Braidwood’s Impact on the NAND Market
- Key NAND Suppliers Face Trouble
- How Braidwood will Impact the DRAM Market
- Summary
- Methodology
- Figures
- Tables
- Author
- Jim Handy
- Figure 1. ONFi NAND Flash Module
- Figure 2. Micro-Star International Motherboard with Braidwood ONFi Socket (arrows). 4
- Figure 3. Elements of a Hard Disk Drive
- Figure 4. NAND Prices Have Dropped Significantly below DRAM's
- Figure 5. Storage Hierarchy in a Typical Computing System
- Figure 6. Pyramid Diagram of NAND in the Memory Hierarchy
- Figure 7. Cost and Performance of Levels in the Memory Hierarchy
- Figure 8. Intel's Turbo Memory
- Figure 9. Latency of Various Media for 4KB Random Reads
- Figure 10. Relative Significance of System Overhead
- Figure 11. PC Power Savings from Adding a NAND Layer
- Figure 12. Services loaded during a Typical PC Bootstrap of Windows XP
- Figure 13. NAND Price per Gigabyte Forecast
- Figure 14. ONFi Module for Braidwood Unit Shipment Forecast
- Figure 15. Optimistic/Pessimistic Revenue Forecasts for NAND Consumption in PCs.. Figure 16. Braidwood Share of Total NAND Revenues
- Figure 17. DRAM Gigabyte Growth Historically Averages 56%
- Figure 18. DRAM Gigabyte Growth Will Slow With Braidwood Introduction
- Figure 19. DRAM Historical Revenues
- Figure 20. DRAM Revenues Likely to Decline after Braidwood Introduction
- Table 1. Breakdown of Latency in Different Media
- Table 2. Summary of Braidwood’s Features
- Table 3. Cost and Benefits of Braidwood and Its Alternatives
- Table 4. A Forecast for Braidwood Adoption and Related ONFi Module Shipments
- Table 5. Optimistic & Pessimistic Forecasts of Braidwood Average Capacity and
- Revenues
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