NEWZ: New Memory Type May Supplant Flash, Hard Drives

[Platform]

...Phase-change memory can be scaled down to 22nm, or far smaller than flash memory, the researchers developing it say. Phase-change also appears able to be more durable than flash, whose memory cells start to break down after 100,000 rewrites...

...Among the advances, the companies have built a prototype device that runs 500 times faster than today's flash memory while using half as much power to write data to a memory cell, they said.




New chip may replace flash memory, hard disk drives

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005845

 

[LOST6200]

2015? Bah, that is far to leta for the likes of me.

 

[paugie]

and I have just purchased, on credit, my first flash disk, a PQI 1Gb USB drive.

4 payments over the 2 months. and I'll be making my 2nd payment this December 15th.

Cost me Pesos1300.00. Divide that by 50 to get the dollar equivalent.

 

[ddrueding]

paugie, that's actually the same cost as here in Sillicon Valley.

I had to buy a 2GB unit yesterday for $65.

 

[Stereodude]

I had to buy a 2GB unit yesterday for $65.

Buy.com has/had a 2GB verbatim for ~$17 after $20 rebate and the $20 Google Checkout discount.

 

[ddrueding]

But they aren't this small....

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=7023563&Redir=1

 

[Stereodude]

But they aren't this small....

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=7023563&Redir=1

True, it's not, and thankfully so.

 

[ddrueding]

Are you saying you want your thumbdrive to be as big as your thumb? I love these little things; far less likely to break.

 

[Stereodude]

Are you saying you want your thumbdrive to be as big as your thumb? I love these little things; far less likely to break.

I want something I can keep in my pocket, not something I'm gonna lose in a week. Though, I will admit that is impressively small.