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    RRAM nearing commercialization. Slated to replace Flash

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by superparamagnetic, Dec 22, 2014.

  1. superparamagnetic

    superparamagnetic Notebook Consultant

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    Interesting bits of news this week:
    AnandTech | Crossbar's Resistive RAM Technology Reaching Commercialisation Stage
    Crossbar's RRAM breakthrough paves way for 1TB drives | Digital Trends

    The TL;DR is that RRAM is denser, faster, and more durable than Flash NAND. Thus it should enable cheaper faster and better SSDs in the future. It's unlikely we'll be able to directly purchase this any time soon, but it still seems exciting times in storage technology.

    There's other competing technologies of course, like phase-change memory and memristors, but it's cool that we might see some post-NAND technology pretty soon.
     
    superparamagnetic, Dec 22, 2014
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

    Even today's fastest storage tech is still the slowest part of a typical computer ...therefore any gain there should be quite visible.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Dec 22, 2014
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  3. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Looks interesting.. Who wants to bet Samsung will be the one of the first to get into the market ^^^
     
    TomJGX, Dec 24, 2014
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