OEM pricing today for an ODD is just $20; Choi believes the hybrid ODD can come in at a small premium over that, compared with the cost of buying a dedicated SSD drive. The performance boost you can expect in cache mode, can be up to 30 to 40 percent. Choi says the company is working on its third-generation technology to create a single-chip solution, and it's talking to OEMs now and is targeting availability for the technology in summer 2011.

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