From October 3, 2022, Intel will say goodbye completely to the SSD and all technical support and after-sales service will be entrusted to the new Solidigm.
Two years ago, Intel announced it would sell its NAND flash memory and solid-state storage business to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $ 9 billion, while divesting its Fab 68 foundry in Dalian, China.
Just a month ago, Intel gave up its unique 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 subsequently released the enterprise grade SSD D7-P5520, D7-P5620 and consumer grade SSD P41 Plus. Demonstrated PLC SSD.
When Intel was founded in 1968, its primary business was storage. Its first product, 3101, was SRAM static random access memory. In November 1971, he created the world of microprocessors and his first product, 4004.
At the time, the Intel X25 series was the star of the SSD industry, with a high price tag, but little quality.
Today, Intel has completely left its founding roots, leaving people behind.
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