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New "PRAM" 30 Times Faster Than Flash

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-cheaper-longer-lasting dept.

hairyfeet writes, "The EETimes describes the new Samsung memory, phase-change RAM, called PRAM. Samsung is dubbing it 'Perfect RAM' because it is thirty times faster than NOR flash, ten times more durable — and cheaper to produce, to boot." 512-Mbit modules should be available sometime in 2008. None of the initial coverage goes much beyond Samsung's press release. At the same time, Samsung also announced a 40-nm, 32-Gbit NAND flash device.

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  1. Advantages by duerra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It sounds like great marketing and all using the name "PRAM" for "Perfect RAM". However, can anybody tell me what, if any, advantages that this design has over MRAM? I'm all for a replacement of flash, given all of its disadvantages, but I would like to avoid a format war if one format between these two is clearly superior to the other.

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    1. Re:Advantages by jimstapleton · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I didn't see it in this, does PRAM not have the read/write cycle limitation of flash? I hope so...

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    2. Re:Advantages by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 3, Interesting

      it mentioned '10 times more durable'? Maybe this means that it will go bad at a rate 1/10th of regular flash.

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  2. Re:Errata + Info + Opinion by kdawson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gbit erratum corrected, thanks for spotting.