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Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept.

GeeksAreSexy writes "Eweek has an article up about the invention of a new kind of nonvolatile memory technology that could one day replace traditional flash memory. Unlike traditional flash memory, chips using this new technology will be able to execute code with performance, and sustain millions of read/write cycles without dying." From the article: "This is a case in which 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is very true. We were forced to look for something else, completely different. That's why we decided to invest in PCM ... There are definitely limits to what you can do with our current flash methodology. There needs to be a complete quantum leap somewhere along the line to push everything forward. We believe PCM are going to be that quantum leap."

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  1. Damn... by tonigonenstein · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and here I tought naively we could kiss goodbye to Macrobe Flash.

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    1. Re:Damn... by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... and here I tought naively we could kiss goodbye to Macrobe Flash.

      The only thing I thought was "Shit, I'm going need yet another blocker for my browser!"

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  2. Nirvana by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny
    "PCM is like a super set of NOR or NAND flash," Doller said. "It's almost nirvana for an engineer. It reads fast, writes fast--it does everything faster."
    Nah, if it were nirvana for an engineer, it would do everything just as fast as it needs to, and no faster.
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  3. Quantum Leap by tygerstripes · · Score: 5, Funny
    There needs to be a complete quantum leap somewhere along the line to push everything forward. We believe PCM are going to be that quantum leap.
    You mean... like... a leap so small that it's impossible to make a conventional leap any smaller, and measuring and predicting effects on such a tiny scale are so experimental and imperceptible that they require a unique perspective of the laws of nature in order to make any sense of them?

    Hardly news then, right?

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    1. Re:Quantum Leap by jeffmeden · · Score: 5, Funny

      Trapped in the past, Intel finds themselves leaping from technology to technology, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that their next leap will be the leap home.

      that kind of leap...

    2. Re:Quantum Leap by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ziggy says there's still a 93 percent chance Itanic won't make it.

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  4. Re:Gramar police by Macthorpe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I predict a conflict between the Grammar Police and the Spelling Nazis on such a scale as to make World War II look like two toddlers fighting over Lego.

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  5. Well I heard... by ronadams · · Score: 2, Funny

    that they were manufacturing this new memory out of the recycled parts from millions of discarded RDRAM chips.

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  6. Re:Another one already? by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I guess when he said parts, he didn't mean physical parts. What do you think?

  7. Little Did They Suspect... by CheeseburgerBrown · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they'd end up on Enterprise.

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  8. Wrong kind of Flash... by martinmarv · · Score: 2, Funny

    Flash memory, not web-animation-Flash. (Not The Flash who runs very fast, and not Flash Gordon who fights Ming the Merciless. Also, not Flash the bathroom-cleaning liquid).

    1. Re:Wrong kind of Flash... by Frumious+Wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, maybe not, but wouldn't you pay money to see Intel's CEO in his dark suit appear in a commercial singing, "Flash!...Ahhhhahhhhh....", with the surviving members of Queen backing him up?

      Not much money, I know. But a 6" Subway vegetarian worth, probably.

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  9. Re:Similar to CD-RW? by CortoMaltese · · Score: 3, Funny
    You realise that CPUs user the same material as most beaches, but they still manage to give them many more FLOPS than your average beach.
    You're comparing apples and oranges. When comparing CPUs and beaches, instead of flops you really should compare flip-flops and flip-flops.
  10. Re:And this is NEW? by Gospodin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Impossible for three reasons:

    1. Slashdot only prints the most current, up-to-the-minute stories you won't find anywhere else.
    2. Slashdot never prints duplicates.
    3. Intel never "borrows" technology from competitors.

    You're welcome.

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