Reports surfaced yesterday indicating Google will begin incorporating solid-state drives (SSDs) in its servers. The SSDs will allegedly make use of Intel flash memory chips coupled with Marvell controllers. With Google's size and appetite for hardware, the sources speculated that this could lead to a shortage of 16- and 32GB flash memory. Google wouldn't comment on the report, but the move may be geared more toward saving energy rather than as a way to speed up searches. Two side effects of this move, if they prove to be true, would be to rejuvenate the flash memory market by helping reduce the current oversupply as well as kick start the move by other enterprise customers toward using SSDs in production servers.