SanDisk announces SATA DEVLSLP-- an new SATA-IO standard proposal lowering current SATA SSD power consumptions.
Joining SanDisk are a number of industry leaders, including Intel, Samsung and Microsoft.
Some current best-in-class SSDs already have low power consumptions of around 50mW-- with SATA DEVSLP, SSDs should remain in a simlar low power state "the majority of the time".
SanDisk has even lower targets for the standard-- as low as 5mW.
Such low power consumptions should be good news for future mobile devices, including tablets and the Ultrabooks.
Sandisk will be the first to implement SATA DEVSLIP in SSDs, of course.