Intel Postpones 25nm SSDs to February 2011
On the bright side, there will be a new G2 coming soon.
Intel has already announced its developments into making 25nm flash for the third generation of its SSDs. The G3 SSDs using the new flash, however, won't be arriving this year, reports Nordic Hardware.
Instead, the current 34nm Postville G2 SSDs will be refreshed with a new 120GB mainstream offering in the X25-M line. Performance characteristics will be the same as what's out currently, but the 120GB version will provide something between the entry-level 80GB and top-end 160GB.
The 25nm G3 SSDs, however, won't be arriving until February 2011, according to Nordic Hardware's sources. Intel may be waiting until there's a decent production capacity.
In any case, those waiting for the G3 Intel SSDs will be awarded with better performance and hopefully lower prices than what's currently available.

they have been dropping in price, or do you not remember how small and expensive they use to be. just wait, hardware revolutions don't happen overnight.
They also perform fantastically
Thats exactly what we need. I, for one, am willing to buy a 300$ SSD, provided its atleast 200GB and has better performance. I dont want to buy a 50$ SSD, with 512GB space and performing like a normal HDD.
Do you not remember 10 years ago or longer when the cheapest laptop you could find was well over $1000?
It won't be until SSD's prices compete with Hard Drives
eg: 500GB for $100
that I will even consider to get one.
and I beleive that most consumers would agree.
there still be much larger hard drives and at even cheaper prices then, but at least 500GB would be at a reasonable price would be a great jumpstart for SSD's.
You can get a 2x500 GB Raid-0 and 1TB backup HDD+frame and still have money left over compared to a 120GB SSD with +220 MB/s, while having almost the same read speed on more space.
For the mainstream those rnd access times just don't matter, as most stuff that has to be loaded at the same time is usually on the same area of the HDD. The SSD will find that spot faster but won't read the data quicker. Unless you have one of those 400-700 MB/s PCIe SSDs (*drool*), but their price tag is even more insane.
And finally the driver support of OSs needs to be better. Right now you need to 'hack' a lot of stuff by yourself to reduce wear&increase performance while making HDD performance a bit worse, because they share some settings.
I like SSDs because they're so quiet, but then again a raid-0 (even with only 7200 rpm) seems to be much more cost effective until the read speed&size of entry level SSDs increases by a lot.