With the announced in 2007 of the mobile platform santa rosa , INTEL presented the turbo memory technology . Currently , in spite of the wide support from the side of mobile and desktop chipset, turbo memory modules are available only in rare laptop computers.
The use of an additional flash memory, intended for accelerating the operating system Windows vista with the technology ready-Boost, in practice do not bring any real advantage.
For this reason INTEL Company decided to improve Turbo memory and to attain its acknowledgement from the side of systems producers and user- enthusiasts. INTEL developed a new software, which was demonstrated in the conference flash memory taking place in California.
The new utility, called Turbo memory dashboard, allow to track the operating system setting and files utilized frequently by the user applications, and to cache them, In this case INTEL promises a real load acceleration for all games and office applications. But since the contemporary version south bridge ICH10R supports Turbo memory, it is very probable that this technology will become one of the main part in the promising motherboard for core i7 processors.