Robson cache technology was presented about a week ago and it was indeed a very interesting such. The technology has been developed by Intel and it works together with the computers harddrive and takes over its work at critical situations. These critical situations are of course when the harddrive is working the most intense. Fast accesses and short, but intensive bursts of data is something that takes a rather long time and which with a laptop will drain the battery when you are suing a mechanical harddrive.
By using flash memory as extra cache the Robson technology allows for faster access times with shows with both a faster boot of the operating system but also regular software startups. Intel still hasn’t released any details, but over at VR-Zone they’ve managed to get hold of some new information.
“Robson itself a combination of hardware and software where it utilizes NAND flash memory from 64MB to 4GB capacity, a new controller as well as with a special driver that handles the pre-caching. The Robson notebook on demonstration contains 512MB of NVM cache fitted on a mini PCI card and slotted into the mini-PCI slot within the notebook. This way, the card is interchangeable and upgradeable with bigger NVM cache. Intel’s next step is to fit the NVM cache onto a Mini PCI Express card that allows much higher bandwidth.”
Source: VR-Zone
