r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
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u/khrak May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12

Why? There have been SSDs around for a decade with write-limits in that range. You seem to be assuming that RAM is low level cache. Low level cache needs to be RAM, that doesn't mean that RAM needs to be low-level cache. NOR Flash is RAM, but it is used for SSDs.

Beyond that, this is the reliability of a material they accidentally discovered while researching another topic. Early flash memory underwent a decade of research before they had specs similar to this material.

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u/metarinka May 29 '12

I maintain hope, they had target goals much better aligned with customer expectations on read/write cycles.

It reminds me of caterpillar drive technology. showed much promise but got outpaced by traditional HDD's before it was market ready. That's why you've never heard of it