SanDisk: Vista Shortfalls Limit Use of SSDs
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 PM - News by John Martellaro
SanDisk, a maker of Solid Stated Drives (SSD), said on Monday that Vista is not optimized for those kinds of drives, and suitable SSDs wonit be available until late this year or next year. The SanDisk CEO admitted that his company didnit understand the limitations of Vista.
SSDs are currently available as options for the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.
SandDiskis CEO, Eli Harari, spoke to the issue at their second quarter conference call and said that the design of Vista presents a challenge. "As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid-state disk," he said.
This is due to Vistais design. "The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls," Mr. Harari continued. "Unfortunately, performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which weill start sampling end of this year, early next year."
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Mr. Harari placed some of the blame on his own company and said: "... Iid say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment."
Yesterday, in a story that has a tie-in, Peter Burrows with BusinessWeek surmised that analysts have misinterpreted Appleis strategy announced during the July 21 Q3 earnings report. "Itis a well-timed move, and a time-honored tactic by market leaders in tough times. If your competitors canit afford to match you on price, why not accept a lower margin for a time and load up on market share (or force them to incur losses)?" Mr. Burrows asked.
Some analysts believe that Apple was referring to a MacBook related product that would use more expensive components and trade market share and low price for some Gross Margin. Mr. Burrowsi prognosis for Apple competitors:
Pain.
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