RIP Braidwood, we hardly knew ye

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15240/1/

Hopefully this isn't true, I think Turbo Memory had potential, but perhaps Intel is just having trouble getting it to live up to its potential.

 

Im glad its gone. Once the write cycles get used on the memory, say hello to system lockups and lose of data....

 

I'm guessing they figured out it is rather pointless given that by the time it is out, most people will be using SSDs and it'll be hard to make something faster by enough to be worth a separate chip.

Also, if Turbo Memory has potential, then that potential is very well hidden. I have an Intel Robson chip in my current laptop and it has given me nothing but trouble. I accidentally updated the drivers for it which made it unusable and caused a BSOD every time the laptop woke from sleep. This was my own fault but here's the thing that bothers me: the boot time and all other performance was not noticeably different at all before I broke it, after I broke it and after I fixed it. In fact, it took me a while that this is what was giving me BSODs because updating the drivers did absolutely nothing except break it.

Perhaps Braidwood was being designed to be a different animal than Robson, but frankly, I'd rather get a decent SSD at a low price than adding an auxiliary chip to the machine.