Solve : After 38 years, a new type of memory to hit market?

1.	Solve : After 38 years, a new type of memory to hit market?
Answer» It's been a long haul for phase change memory, but the goal is in sight. Numonyx, the memory joint VENTURE between STMicroelectronics and Intel, is already shipping samples of phase change memory (PCM) chips to customers and will start shipping PCM chips commercially later this year, CEO Brian Harrison SAID at a press conference Monday. Quote Why will the world want PCM? Performance, says Numonyx CTO Ed Doller. PCM chips can survive tens of millions of read-write cycles, he said, or far more than flash. Reading data to PCM chips takes 70 to 100 nanoseconds, or as fast as NOR flash. Data can be WRITTEN to the chips at a rate of 1 megabyte a second, or equivalent of NAND flash. There is also no erase CYCLE, making it similar to DRAM. In other words, you have the best attributes of three different types of memory--plus, PCM will potentially use far less power. Link These tech advances always are announced after you have shelled out $1600.00 for the newest BUILD on the market...Phase Change......There was something on this in the news last year or so...

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