Last time we heard from His Wozness, he was being interviewed by The Daily Telegraph and the BBC (part of his British media tour?), appearing as part of the Intel Development Forum, and possibly getting married in Indianapolis.
But we haven’t heard much about what Woz is up to professionally. Apparently he’s just been named to the board of directors of a startup that focuses on SSDs (that’s solid-state drives).
Earlier this year, the company released something called the ioDrive, which it claims is the “first direct-attached solid-state drive (SSD) on a PCI-Express (PCIe), with I/O performance outstripping that of mechanical disks by hundreds of times.”
That sounds pretty rad, if in fact the company’s claims are true.
According to a company press release, Woz’ job will be to advise “on future market trends; consult with senior management on company R&D efforts and product road-mapping; and introduce Fusion-io to key strategic alliances in the industry, as well as sales opportunities.”
Oddly, its hardware doesn’t appear to be Mac-friendly yet, but we’re hoping that Woz is on the case and introduces Fusion-io to Apple—surely that will be the strategic-iest alliance that he can offer.
