4 hours ago
>Essentially, we’ve had no major forms of innovation in memory for three decades – SRAM, DRAM, and Flash as the only memory types in broad deployment
Not sure about that, does 3D XPoint or Optane memory count as new type of memory innovation, it's a joint venture between Intel and Micron [1].
[1] 3D XPoint:
4 hours ago
Was… it still is some of the best you can buy on the used market new or old. Best endurance and speed. Shame they got rid of it.
6 hours ago
Where are they going to get fab capacity? I doubt Micron, Samsung, and others will provide fab capacity for this. This is a long road ahead.
3 hours ago
Could they build their own fab?
6 hours ago
I've been thinking Intel should bring back it's other-than-cpu biz, get into memory, bring back 3dxpoint, all these things. Could then vertically integrate: intel CPUs + intel chipsets + intel ram + intel nics + intel ... then sell the whole integrated thing for more than the sum of its parts.
this could be one part of that.