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Fab plants are now making superfast carbon nanotube memory

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Re: Fab plants are now making superfast carbon nanotube memory

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inside the article: "According to Nantero, NRAM can withstand 10^12 write cycles and 10^15 read cycles -- an almost infinite number."

Well, to be fair, if that's true, that's an improvement over 10^2 - 10^3 write cycles is what current NAND-flashes can manage. 10^12 is enough for it not to ever matter.

No, that's a low enough number that wear-leveling logic will be needed, as with flash memory. This is a fast device, approaching DRAM speeds. A program could easily bang on a cell 10^12 times.

Re: Fab plants are now making superfast carbon nanotube memory

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to be fair, if that's true, that's an improvement over 10^2 - 10^3 write cycles is what current NAND-flashes can manage. 10^12 is enough for it not to ever matter.

No, that's a low enough number that wear-leveling logic will be needed, as with flash memory. This is a fast device, approaching DRAM speeds. A program could easily bang on a cell 10^12 times.

Yes, if you actually use it for RAM, which isn't proposed anywhere in the article.
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