<story><title>IBM develops &apos;instantaneous&apos; memory, 100x faster than flash</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/embargo-ibm-develops-instantaneous-memory-100x-faster-than-fl/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkalla</author><text>Whenever I see announcements like this, I try and cap my enthusiasm -- I think reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s and not getting them until... well the last 2 years, I have learned to be cautious with falling in love.&lt;p&gt;THAT being said, this article suggests mass-production on a timeline of 5-years (give or take) along side other innovations like Intel&apos;s 50Gbps Thunderbolt.next() [1]&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m really gunning for the world not ending Dec 2012 now; I want to see this stuff in a desktop PC ;)&lt;p&gt;Aside: It is fun to think about what changes to current industries would occur when computing power becomes insignificant -- for example, video editing/production, video games, voice recognition, security, etc.&lt;p&gt;Just in our industry, with the cost of a GB dropping to damn near $0.00, the first thing we saw was an explosion of apps dealing with huge data sets -- something previously only done by a few select mega-corps.&lt;p&gt;Anyone, just speculation and fun at this point.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/intel-touts-50gbps-interconnect-by-2015-will-make-it-work-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/intel-touts-50gbps-interc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>IBM develops &apos;instantaneous&apos; memory, 100x faster than flash</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/embargo-ibm-develops-instantaneous-memory-100x-faster-than-fl/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Faster than flash, much higher write-cycle lifetime than even SLC flash, if these hold up in mass production it&apos;ll be like christmas for everyone.</text></comment>