Demerjian proposes three-state flash memory

[Thorburn]

Not especially relevant to anything or anyone, but it's been a dull day, I'm working late (damn you SYSmark) and it made me chuckle.

Another one Intel is talking but not talking about is Multi-Level Phase Change memory, basically a flash cell with four states, aka two bits. We are not sure what is more impressive, the fact that Intel completely skipped three-state flash, or that they won't tell you any of the product details, see the disclaimer about ISSCC above.

I'd guess since the ability to store 00, 01, 10 but not 11 (or whichever you chose to leave out) wouldn't be that useful overall?

Of course I'm no expert, maybe I'm missing something obvious here, alternatively Charlie has forgotten his safe-zone of copy-pasting from white papers and accidently tried to make an intelligent comment.

 

[AlphaWolf]

Link to article

 

[Davros]

make 10 state memory then we can store stuff in decimal

 

[Fox5]

make 10 state memory then we can store stuff in decimal

We already have 10 state memory in binary.

 

[PellePlutt]

I don't see anything inherently wrong with three-state memory. Sure, the original comment was almost certainly a joke, but storing a byte using 6 "tri-bits"(?) might be useful, I guess?

 

[_xxx_]

But that's not what he meant

 

[hoom]

There are 10 types of people...

 

[Davros]

no there are 2 types of people
those that understand Trinary
those that dont
and those that confuse it with binary