Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip 287
nk497 writes "Flash memory could soon be a thing of the past, according to U.S. startup Crossbar, which claims it's close to bringing resistive RAM (RRAM) to the market. Crossbar is touting impressive specs for the RRAM technology, promising 20 times the write performance at a fraction of the power consumption and size of the current best-in-class NAND flash modules — and squeezing terabytes of storage capacity onto a single chip the size of a postage stamp. The company also claims its technology can retain data for up to 20 years, compared with the standard one to three years with NAND flash."
Number of re-writes? (Score:4, Interesting)
Do the memory points wear out after a certain number of re-writes?
Re:Touch screen fanboys (Score:5, Interesting)
Interesting this comes up. Over the weekend at Quakecon John Carmack addressed the evolution of controllers and his thoughts on the subject in his keynote. My favorite was when he was mocking Apple having the one button mouse and then one upped that by saying the kinect was "like a 0-button mouse."
My main argument would probably be, when you have a physical key/button with tactile feedback you can much more easily ensure an intentional action on the part of the user. Whereas touchscreens you are much more prone to fat fingering the wrong key (although this happens sometimes on keyboards too to be fair, just not nearly as often in my experience). A promising tech I remember reading about I think on slashdot was the touchscreen that could bend in such a way as to give tactile feedback at any point of the screen for a variety of sizes and shapes. Arguments could still be made to have solid keys/buttons still, but brings the two a little closer together at least.
Re:Will we finally get a replacement for hard disk (Score:5, Interesting)
On a side note, a few years back, I was working on designing a tape robot that would be able to use bare 2.5" drives.
It had almost zero time to load (once it was plugged into a reader slot and spun up.)
It also had various uses it could work as, be it a VTL, the disks presented as tape libraries, spanning disks where data that wasn't used would be moved to platters, then demounted.
The problem was the robotics. Only one company was able to make the robots that could reliably grip, move, and ungrip the drives, and they were asking $10,000 per unit for starters.
Eventually, the project got shuttled aside, but having a silo that was able to use disks without any special enclosure required would have been nice for the enterprise (IMHO, of course.)
Re:Touch screen fanboys (Score:5, Interesting)