Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
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Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#2If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article:
>The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state.
So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?
Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#3If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article: >The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state. So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?
Maybe there's no difference ? maybe they want to play the stock market, because for memristors, they might have competition, for example from crossbar inc ?
Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#4If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article: >The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state. So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?
Maybe there's no difference ? maybe they want to play the stock market, because for memristors, they might have competition, for example from crossbar inc ?
The memristor patents might be an issue as well.
Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe there's no difference ? maybe they want to play the stock market, because for memristors, they might have competition, for example from crossbar inc ?
The memristor patents might be an issue as well.
Maybe intel mostly licenses the tech from crossbar, and just scales the production ?
Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#6If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article: >The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state. So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?
They may be using some other process to manipulate the properties of the media in question. Good old fashioned solid state physics to the rescue I guess. It just saddens me that HP borked the whole memristor fabrication issue with their Machine project (a non-von-Neumann architecture would be fun to toy with).
Re: Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
#7If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article: >The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state. So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?
It could be the way Intel is layering the memristors.
>From there, memory cells are layered in an intricate three-dimensional checkerboard pattern that Intel researchers say is 10 times denser than conventional memory.