I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.

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    1 year ago

    I would appreciate confirmation that chip manufacturers understand humans do not typically require this

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    1 year ago

    It would have to be always active, checking for radiation induced flips, not just powered off.

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      1 year ago

      I took this article specifically to mean, and that it was referring to, a new form of non-volatile solid state storage. Active memory is by definition, volatile. This article seems to be talking about non volatile RAM, fast enough to function as active RAM. This alone would redefine what a reboot is.

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    1 year ago

    The article fails to mention the scale it can be produced at. How big and how expensive is a gig of this stuff?