Both
Intel and
Numonyx have been
talking up phase change memory for
years now, but for some reason, we're slightly more inclined to believe that the latest breakthrough is actually one that'll matter to consumers. In a joint release, the two have announced a new non-volatile memory technology that supposedly "paves the way for scalable, higher density phase change memory products." Put as simply as possible, researchers have been testing a 64Mb chip that "enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die," and the two are calling the discovery PCMS (phase change memory and switch). We know, you're drowning in technobabble here, but if these two can really apply Moore's Law to density scaling, you'll be thanking 'em as you pick up your $50 6TB hard drive in 2014.
posted Oct 30th 2009 1:51AM
About time someone shows Moore is still right!
-I am make memory smaller!
*You am play gods!
Dresden Codak?
...too much jizzing much?
oh wait, bluray
but i want a big damn hard drive right NOWW!!
Memory's been falling substantially I just found a 1 TB HDD for $80. Now when the 3 or 4 TB HDD's come sometime next year we'll be looking at 1 TB floating around $40-70 so we're only a few years off.
But 1 TB isn't much today when you consider HD content and by the time 6 TB comes out I don't even want to know what'll be the next big thing. What the hell type of media will be able to run through 6 TB's?
Thats what she said....
Man, they need to fix the stigmator in that SEM image.
How about a $50 6TB super-nano-SD card for my cell phone?
I know haters love to hate this word, but I think it's appropriate.
This is REVOLUTIONARY
The problem with revolutionary discoveries in electronics is that, in the last 30 years, they have been coming along so often that we never notice them. We just expect for devices to be faster, and don't really care that we have broken the 50nm barrier or that lithography is reaching it's boiling point.
miles... how come you call everyone a "hater" on your posts? you realize that you're hating on the haters, right? that's makes you a hater hater. hater.
Good thing you didn't say "innovative".
That is fine for semi-permanent (HD) storage, but when I turn my PC off/on, I want to make sure it (i.e. the RAM) returns to a known reset stage.
Actually you really don't. Your computer could be near instant on if it did keep your system RAM stable. The reset/refresh would happen when you shut the computer down. Then you just need to hit power on and wait a couple seconds for the power to stabilize and your monitor to start, and the computer is ready to go, nearly no waiting.
Is it just me or does that look like the death snappers of an Alien, ala Ridley Scott style? I'm scared.
I find it profound that the porn industry could drive the memory industry in such a way.
$50 6TB hard drive in 2014? I thought the world suppose to end in 2012.
no, the new date is in fact 2020 according to some new research which shows the 2012 date was off, so it's cool.
Looks like its time for Chandler to upgrade those 64 MB of memory in his laptop.
BTW I loath Friends, but I always love when we have proof that 64 Megabytes used to be incredible, especially on video. Its rather unfortunate though, that I've made you all envision Matthew Perry enjoying any sort of happiness.
Samsung just started mass production of a 64MB, 60nm phase-change RAM in September. Initially they are going to use them in mobile phones. The chips read, write and erase proximately 7 times faster than Flash memory, and use less power also. Eventually Samsung or the other main PRAM producer Numonyx will put the chips in SSDs that can read and write at around 1GB per second.
Several years ago, I had the good fortune of spending an afternoon chatting with the inventor of phase change technologies, Dr. Stanford Ovshinsky. I was given a tour of his company's labs and shown phase change memory in action, and some other very cool things related to the use of phase change in computers. Dr Ovshinsky fully appreciated the hurdles ahead in making phase change memory a commercial reality but was so amazingly enthusiastic about the prospects that it was hard to avoid becoming enthused even as an observer.
I don't know whether phase change will change the world, but I think it has amazing potential to improve our lives in a host of areas, not the least of which has already happened with writeable disk media.
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