The technology was publicly introduced on October 24, 2005, at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taiwan when a laptop that booted up almost immediately was demonstrated.
[2] The technology attempts to decrease hard drive usage by moving frequently accessed data over to the flash memory.
It is designed to leverage features introduced in Windows Vista, namely ReadyBoost (a supplementation of RAM-based disk caching by dedicated files on flash drives, except on the 512 MB version) and/or ReadyDrive (a non-volatile caching solution, i.e. an implementation of a hybrid drive, as long as the main storage isn't already one);[5] as ReadyBoost is backed by temporary files on generic storage volumes, it is unofficially possible to destinate this space for general purpose storage.
Several retailers, such as Acer,[9] Asus,[10] Dell,[9] Lenovo,[11] Sager,[12] Toshiba,[9] etc., sold laptops enabled with the Intel Turbo Memory technology.
A review in AnandTech largely concurred with some OEM criticism finding that "it basically does nothing for the user experience".