In computex , intel company demonstrated one of the most interesting computer update in the present year - the expansion card turbo memory with PCI express 1x interface .
Let us recall briefly that this technology works in collaboration with windows vista functions : readyDrive and ReadyBoost.
In the first case we obtain the possibility to use a flash- disk as hard disk cache , which will optimize small data exchange operations , since the access time in flash- memory is noticeably lower than hard disk. Moreover, this will result in reduced hard disk energy consumption , which is urgent for notebook.
ReadyBoost enlarges the accessible memory volume for preliminary reading and data caching from the hard disk. Here again the low random access time allow to noticeably accelerate applications load and files discovery .
The expansion card shown in Computex is intended for desktop PC . It is built on base of intel 29AE20AA0 controller (code name diamond lake) and support the installation of four chips nAND-flash with overall volume up to 2Gb.