I certainly hope these guys are wrong about a delay. It's quite possible, considering the sloppiness of this article:
“The market adjusted capacity is the big news. Performance will not be changed from current G2 models.
Intel's G3 series of SSDs is not expected to hit stores until February, but will bring noticably better performance then. ”
So which is it? Will performance not be changed from current G2 models, or will G3 “bring noticably (sic) better performance”?
“Unfortunately we will have to wait longer before Intel actually launches the drives, but that also gives us some more time to dig up more detailed information on the performance and specifications.”
One would think an earlier launch would give sooner information on performance and specs, no? One could simply test the drive, with no need to “dig” anything up.
I find it highly unlikely the author meant to say: “highlyunlikely”. Is it so hard for someone- especially in the technology field- to use a spellchecker?
I never went to business school, but if the performance of the G3 drive is an improvement, than why not take advantage of supply and demand by launching better drives sooner for more margin? I wouldn't buy one, but plenty of people who need/can't resist more performance will. Less of the new drives out in the wild would give an opportunity to discover more problems before the masses start buying as well. This would give them that “reliability” advantage; such as it is. On it's face, the reason this article gives for a delay certainly isn't intuitive to me.
If there is no performance boost, and the only advantage is more capacity for the same price, than a delay could make sense. Intel would like to milk their current drives as long as possible, and if they aren't watching competitors coming up in their rear-view, they might want to wait till they can flood the market, and drown out their competition's profits. If they can churn out high capacity drives for much less than the competition's better but small drive, the mass market will go to them. In this case, a delay is really bad, as it not only means no cheaper drives soon, but also, unimproved performance for considerably longer.
“This is just a qualified speculation on our behalf.”
Let's hope they aren't as qualified as they think.
Where are those hybrids?