Gigabyte i-RAM Announced
Gigabyte technology officially acknowledged its storage device which is promised to be “Blisteringly Fast”. i-RAM, is a solid state-storage device that plugs into your motherboard's SATA port, it supports up to four DDR SDRAM modules. It also promises to release million users from the shackles of slow processors and enhance the performance of tasks. The core of the i-RAM is Xilinx Spartan-series FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) that translates Serial ATA requests into requests to random access memory.
i-RAM can not only boot windows 13 times faster but is also equipped with a Li-Ion rechargeable battery that can power the device for about 16 hours when a PC is shut down. once connected it behaves like a normal hard drive without the need for additional drivers or software. Gigabyte first demoed the i-RAM at Computex last summer, and cards have finally made their way to the North American market.
Specs:
Gigabyte equips the i-RAM with four DIMM slots, each of which can accommodate up to 1GB of unbuffered memory.
The card is sold without DIMMs, giving users some flexibility in how it's configured. However, most will probably want to shoot for that 4GB maximum.
To allow users to unplug their systems for periods of time and to protect against data loss due to a power failure, i-RAM comes with a rechargeable lithium ion battery that packs 1600 milliamp-hours of power, it can keep four 1GB DIMMs powered for more than ten hours.
The only drawback being that it has been priced at an exorbitant price of $500!!










