Flash Memory Turns 25 Years Old

[Guest]

Flash memory is reportedly celebrating its 25th birthday.

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[guru_urug]

I was half expecting Flash memory to be invented by Apple in this article. 😛

 

[hemelskonijn]

Is the card in the picture a 16 bit ISA flash drive?, does any one have any info on this relic?

 

[The-Darkening]

"I mention "reportedly" since the cerebration note"

Cerebration?

 

[giovanni86]

Definition of CEREBRATE

: to use the mind : think.

Although he could have meant celebration. But meh cerebration exists. Webster it =P hehe

 

[CaedenV]

Oh MRAM how you have failed us! lol

 

[Guest]

"The first device was a shoebox-sized 256 KB chip..."

Really? A single chip the size of a shoebox. That would take an entire wafer for one chip. I wonder what the yield percentage was...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]Oh MRAM how you have failed us! lol[/citation]

MRAM didn't fail. The several technologies needed to make it practical are owned by different companies who aren't working together. If they'd work together, then MRAM could have been commercially practical in many more uses several years ago.

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

Intel: Flashing people since 1988.