From October 3, 2022, Intel will say goodbye to SSD completely, and all technical support and after-sales service will be handed over to the new Solidigm.
Two years ago, Intel announced that it would sell its NAND flash memory and solid-state storage business to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $9 billion, while handing over its Fab 68 foundry in Dalian, China.
Just a month ago, Intel gave up its only Optane storage business and closed it instead of selling it, with an estimated loss of $559 million.
After SK hynix acquired the Intel NAND business, it formed a brand-new Solidigm company, and successively released enterprise-grade SSD D7-P5520, D7-P5620, and consumer-grade SSD P41 Plus. Demonstrated PLC SSD.
At the beginning of Intel’s establishment in 1968, its main business was storage. Its first product, 3101, was a SRAM static random access memory. In November 1971, it created the world of microprocessors and its first product, 4004.
Back then, the Intel X25 series was the star of the SSD industry, with a high price, but no quality.
Today, Intel has completely left its founding roots, making people.
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