Spring IDF 2006: Merom and Ultra Mobile PCs
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 7, 2006 10:58 PM EST- Posted in
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NAND Flash to Reduce Application Load Times
During Sean Maloney's mobility keynote, another element of the Santa Rosa platform was demonstrated - a technology called Robson. Robson combines NAND flash with some caching algorithms to help speed up system boot time and application startup time. Basically data gets prefetched and cached into some local NAND flash, which makes accessing it a lot faster (and lower power) than going to a slow, mechanical hard disk.
The results were quite visible, Intel ran through a benchmark of simply opening and executing macros on Microsoft Office documents. The benchmark completed in 3.3 seconds on the Santa Rosa platform equipped with Robson technology, while it took 15 seconds on the same platform without Robson.
Robson in action, the notebook on the left is booting faster thanks to it
The reduction in power consumption was also measurable, going from 2.7W down to 2.0W thanks to Robson technology. System boot time was also reduced, although we didn't measure how much it was reduced.
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stelleg151 - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
A 5" LCD Merom that is pocketable seems plausible, I hope it happens.Rock Hydra - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
Hell yeah, that would be awesome.Questar - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
Did you guys read that? That means Memron notebooks day one - at theoretically no price increase.Dang, I'd like to get my P-M notebook upgraded :/
Anemone - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
Napa refresh wishlist4gb ram limit
2 internal SATA ports one ESATA (300gb)
Robson tech
arrival asap...
sigh I know - all in time right? Still wish it was right around the corner.
xsilver - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link
those ultra portables on display looked too unfinishedsony's Vaio U50 series has already been out for over a year and looks functionality wise a much better option
now if they'd update it with the latest tech, (latest low power cpu, lightly better screen) lower weight etc.... it would be a killer
Doormat - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
How many times can NAND flash be written and overwritten before it "wears out". It looks replacable - you'd have to go out and buy replacements every few years (like replacing iPod batteries).PhoenixOrion - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I hope its a couple of million rewrites for industrial grade NAND instead of in the thousands in usb and ipod products.PhoenixOrion - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I see that pivot/tilt notebook in my future desktop replacement.spinportal - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - link
Does the Merom support EMT64?