Seagate is still under continued pressure from solid state drive manufacturers in the enterprise, where Flash-based storage is cost prohibitive but faster and more chic.
This need, plus caching of frequently accessed content will drive the requirements for flash memory storage as an important tier in enterprise storage infrastructures.
Intel announced a new SATA interface enterprise solid state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nm multi-level cell flash memory (this is 2 bit per cell technology referred to as MLC).