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Silicon Storage Technology (SST) and Insyde Software announced the joint development of FlashMate technology, enabling new usage models to notebook PC consumers. This technology uses a fully integrated hardware, firmware and software architecture to provide alternative hybrid-drive functionality to notebooks and total access to hard-disk-drive content even while the CPU is turned off. By managing the peripherals, FlashMate enables a wide range of new applications while the main system is either in a pre-boot, standby or hibernate state or completely shut down. It provides benefits beyond that of a hybrid drive by giving users the ability to instantly access the content on the hard-disk drive without having to power on the notebook for listening to MP3 files, viewing digital pictures, accessing email and more. This technology combines SST's expertise in NAND Flash controllers and memory-subsystem design with Insyde Software's expertise in PC BIOS, system software and power management to create a complete application subsystem. For example, working in conjunction with features such as Windows Vista ReadyDrive, the technology serves as non-volatile cache for the hard-disk drive, thus transforming a standard hard-disk drive to perform hybrid-drive functions. Hybrid drives feature a hard-disk drive with a NAND Flash drive acting as data cache.