14 DAY TRIAL // Even Advanced Micro Devices is openly and loudly promoting solid-state drives over hard disk drive units, as the latter are quite slow compared to the former, if much more capacious.
Its latest move was the announcement of a joint partnership with OCZ Storage Solutions.
Since AMD has no solid-state drives of its own (despite the fact that Intel does), it needs to sign pacts with those that specialize in storage products.
OCZ has agreed to supply Vector 150 Series drives to the test gaming systems that Advanced Micro Devices will release at the Game Developer Conference.
SSDs are used as primary drives in gaming systems because they are much faster than HDDs and allow the system to boot and launch applications nearly instantly.
Virtually every maker of gaming PCs at least allows for SSDs to be selected, so AMD can't afford to do otherwise.
GDC 2014 is taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, from March 17 to 21.
23,000 programmers, artists, designers, audio professionals, producers and business decision makers will attend the show.
We'll be keeping an eye on what else happens at GDC. Since OCZ is a Toshiba company now, we may very well hear about some of the latter's products too.