Robson arrives with a bang- Intel speeds up PC boot-up
This is the age of speed, and Intel knows it by heart. In keeping with the spirit of the time, on Monday at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Intel displays the arrival of a future technology named Robson that promises to slash down the boot-up time of a PC.
With the introduction of Robson, the entire working system of a PC goes under a sea change. With Robson, a PC derives data and applications from an add-in flash memory and Intel software, rather than the hard drive of the computer. The reaction time of Flash is much less than the hard drives, and easily reduces the time for launching an application.
Flash is being endorsed more and more by PCs and other devices, by the courtesy of easy-on-the-pocket pricing and ever-increasing data intensities. Also, with the introduction of the add-in flash memory, notebook users could perceive a prolonged battery life, as the hard drive, being spun by a motor, wouldn't have to toil so much like before. Though the accurate boot-up time comparisons were not provided, an Intel representative assured that Robson would make the boot-up and application launching much faster than ever before.
A Robson card is capable of containing 64 MB to 4 GB of memory. Augmenting the memory would only facilitate data and applications to take advantage of Robson.
Earlier this year, Samsung and Microsoft exhibited a prototype hard drive comprising of an internal 1 GB flash memory chip, with the potential to reduce power consumption in notebooks. In the prototype incoming data (words, photos, songs etc) is directly recorded to the flash memory chip.
While Intel developed this prototype hard drive for Robson, the chips are supplied from outside and Robson solely depends on NAND flash memory originated by Samsung, Toshiba and others instead of Intel's own NOR flash memory, unsuitable for the read-write-erase functioning process of Robson.
So, the innocuous PC looks all set to become smarter and faster than ever before. Way to go “Mr. Robson”!
|
|
