Source : DigitimesEven though a page of Google is always as plain as it was at the beginning, behind it there is a material infrastructure difficult to imagine. They are hundreds of thousands of servers which run in order to find a web reference and to offer to us in some tenths of a second as the result of our research. The consumption of these machines is quite difficult to conceive.
In order to decrease this consumption, Google has placed order at Intel for a very great quantities of SSD disks which will start to be delivered very soon. Such an initiative will have, because of the enormous volumes concerned, a consequential impact on the market of flash memory; this is likely to start a price rise after many years of rapid fall.
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