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was curious what intel would say on direct questions wrt availability of Robson and flash specs. Here is:

"Robson technology will be available on Intel’s forthcoming Santa Rosa platform....

...long rah rah....

...still rah rah...

Systems with Santa Rosa and Robson technology are expected to launch in the first half of 2007.

I guess you know how to translate this.

And on the management thingie we talked about, and on flash specs:

Robson Technology Architecture
Robson technology consists of four components:

* Robson driver. This is the heart of Robson technology—the Robson driver interfaces to Microsoft Vista’s ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost technologies, interfaces to the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager driver, and provides all the control functions necessary for managing NAND flash in a caching role.
* Intel® NAND flash memory. Robson cards are powered by Intel NAND memory that offers 40 Mb/s reads and 12-15 Mb/s writes.
* Diamond Lake ASIC controller. This controller translates the system’s PCI Express signals to the Intel NAND memory and manages the retirement of Flash memory blocks as needed.
* OROM BIOS. Robson technology includes BIOS-level option ROM (OROM) code which manages NAND access before the OS and drivers load. The OROM also controls separation handling, critical to maintaining data integrity.

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