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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Intel
are teaming up to produce solid-state drives for servers and workstations, the companies said
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based on flash memory chips are faster and consume less power than disk drives, and because they
don#39;t have moving parts they can also be more reliable. Although SSDs are more expensive than
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class="ArticleBody"Under terms of the deal, drive maker Hitachi GST will only use NAND flash chips
obtained from Intel in its high-end SSDs. The two companies will jointly develop drives that use
Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces, with products expected to hit the market in
2010, they said. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"Intel will continue to sell SSDs for laptops and desktop PCs, which use the SATA
interface, under its own brand./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Intel#39;s flash chips are
manufactured by a joint venture with Micron, called IM Flash Technologies (IMFT). The joint-venture
company doesn#39;t sell to third-party customers, with all of its output going to Micron and
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