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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I belive it, but the article mentions that the tech requires non-silicon semiconductors (enormously expensive to scale right now, think of how expensive building current-gen fabs is, and tack on the cost of experimental tech) not to mention the fact that changing the memory architecture to merge RAM and long-term storage would require significantly altered CPU design, (and probably significant OS/Kernel changes too!)

TL;DR assuming that this is real and not wierd shareholder fluff like other commenters assume, we probably won’t see it in consumer hardware (or even enterprise stuff) for a long time

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

yeah, ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) has been a thing for a while. it's persistent (nonvolatile), faster than DRAM, and more write endurant than flash. it's not some top secret government technology either -- you can just go buy it on digikey right now. the problem is that 512KB F-RAM modules are $20 a chip and ain't nobody building a computer out of THAT

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yea this sounds like a huge scam. It uses quantum blah blah blah. Yea, this is something to milk dumb investors

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Normal flash memory uses quantum tunnelling. What makes this different is that it has a lock.

Disclaimer: I am not an engineer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No mention of capacity or costs. Kinda sus

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is a cool technology, making the assumption that it's real, but due to cost and scaling limitations, I doubt we'll see it outside of specialized use cases any time soon. For expensive use cases that have unique cases for it, it might prove interesting.

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