The Application Launch Accelerator technology will provide PC end users an enhanced PC experience by dramatically shortening the time it takes for software applications to load from the hard disk drive. Basically, Application Launch Accelerator technology makes your PC work smarter, not harder, by minimizing time-consuming disk seek operations using an innovative defragmentation technique we created. Other applications also showed similar improvements in launch times with the Application Launch Accelerator technology. Unlike existing defragmentation techniques which arrange individual files into consecutive clusters, Intel s Application Launch Accelerator arranges data blocks used during application start up in a sequential fashion, thereby reducing the amount of random disk access. Customers will see dramatic improvement in the time it takes to load applications from the hard disk drive, due to the software algorithm that is part of the Application Launch Accelerator technology.
Nobody likes to wait for their PCs to load applications.
Intel s Application Launch Accelerator technology adapts the application software to the disk drive to speed the process. Intel s Application Launch Accelerator technology, like Western Digital s other innovations in storage technology, is one example of how desktop computer storage performance can be improved. Intel is working with several software and hardware industry leaders to deploy this technology to PC consumers. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products.