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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedIntel flash now boots a BIOS; block-oriented part could hold other routines. (basic input/output system; 28F001BX flash memory chip) (product announcement)
EDN, May, 1991 by Arnold, Bill
FOLSOM, CA--Intel Corp this week announces a 1-Mbit flash memory with a secure 8-kbyte block to hold a PC's basic input/output system (BIOS) software for faster and more reliable "boot up." The segmented 128k X 8 part allows users to load updated BIOS software without fear of losing the existing BIOS if the system fails during an erase/write session, and it enables PCs to reboot quickly after a power outage or similar event, promises the company.
The 28F001BX flash memory has one 112-kbyte general-purpose main memory block, two 4-kbyte "parameter" blocks, and one 8-kbyte boot block. It can be used to store a 60-kbyte operating system and parameters to run specific peripherals in embedded systems. Access times are 120 or 150 nsec.
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