Quote Originally Posted by Ao1 View Post
The first G3 delay rumour was due to the fact that Intel wanted to build up enough stock so the G3 would not have supply problems on release, as occurred with the G2.

That was plausible I guess.

The next rumour was that erase cycles were not yet good enough. Again plausible.

But now The C400 is due out soon and OCZ are already shipping drives with IMF nand.

Maybe Intel needed time to give the G3 controller a makeover to catch up with the competition.

OCZ have not dropped prices now they are using 2Xnm. The free capacity has gone down and by all accounts write speeds with non compressible data are slower. If this is what can be expected with 2Xnm I'm going to stick with 3Xnm.
Yeah, you have some good points there. Maybe this new 25nm NAND had some surprise for controllers?.

OCZ-problems, as you describe it, seams to be related to the combination of the controller + 25nm NAND. And, Intel seams to be using the delay-time to fix the controller to work optimized with this new 25nm NAND, too.

I don't think there is problem with the quality, supply or yield of 25nm NAND by itself, because Intel is confident enough to sell them to OEM already. To me, the problem seams to be related to OCZ and Intel's controllers in combination with 25nm NAND.