hoom
Veteran
Some of us have been waiting on various promising fast & more durable non-volatile memory techs which have been 'on the way real soon now™' like MRAM & various followup 'Spintronics' techs for several years.
I understand certain commercial uses have eventuated but not real consumer level stuff.
MRAM suffered from a quite large minimum cell size by my understanding & the various spintronics follow ups don't seem to have managed to make it to volume production.
The latest is Intel & Micron '3D Xpoint'
eg http://www.anandtech.com/show/9470/...-1000x-higher-performance-endurance-than-nand
On the face of it this appears to solve a lot of those scalability issues & be one of those incredibly simple solutions 'why did nobody think of it before' that may finally enable this tech to come to real consumer grade mass availability?
What are peoples' thoughts on this?
I understand certain commercial uses have eventuated but not real consumer level stuff.
MRAM suffered from a quite large minimum cell size by my understanding & the various spintronics follow ups don't seem to have managed to make it to volume production.
The latest is Intel & Micron '3D Xpoint'
eg http://www.anandtech.com/show/9470/...-1000x-higher-performance-endurance-than-nand
On the face of it this appears to solve a lot of those scalability issues & be one of those incredibly simple solutions 'why did nobody think of it before' that may finally enable this tech to come to real consumer grade mass availability?
What are peoples' thoughts on this?