Transparent, Flexible 3D Memory Chips Could Replace Flash

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First rumors about the demise of flash surfaces as early as 2004 when there was speculation that MRAM, OUM, PRAM or nanocrystal-supported flash would replace flash memory chips beyond the 32 nm scale by 2009.

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[Guest]

It *could* replace flash, but I wager that some cheaper alternative without a few of the conferred benefits (like flexibility, resistance to water, and resistance to heat) will come along and that will be the dominant one that becomes available to consumers due to cheaper price for same capacity.

See NOR flash vs NAND flash (or even within NAND flash itself, SLC vs. MLC), SRAM vs DRAM, and many more of the same sort of battle play out between a cheap technology and a more expensive but superior technology equivalent.

 

[lamorpa]

So this is the new future technology that will replace flash by 2017. Just like, "2004 when ... MRAM, OUM, PRAM or nanocrystal-supported flash would replace flash memory chips ... by 2009" I get it!

 

[jabliese]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]So this is the new future technology that will replace flash by 2017. Just like, "2004 when ... MRAM, OUM, PRAM or nanocrystal-supported flash would replace flash memory chips ... by 2009" I get it![/citation]
Exactly. Any new technology 5 years out you *might* see in 10 years. Anything 2 years out slips to 5 years. Anything beyond 5 years out slips into forever.

 

[freggo]

So we can use the Gorilla Glass of a smart phone as it's memory ?
Cool; tablets will have quite some memory available then.

 

[annymmo]

This technology could be a survivor!!

Sounds like it's going to be cheap and rugged!!
Withstanding those high temperatures and hopefully high radiation is a nice bonus.

THere are already microcontrollers and discrete chips with FRAM available.
Fram is used in some areas!! But the article thing could be a breakthrough.

@Melchior
Materials don't work like that.
You don't have cheaper and less features in a linear way.
A cheaper material can have superior properties to a more expensive material.
Factories then just use the cheaper because of competition.

It's perfectly possible to have good and cheap materials or bad and expensive materials.

 

[alxianthelast]

I wonder if they will be rejected if implanted into the body by the immune system (johnny mnemonic style)

"I'm carrying 3.2 Terabytes of data in my body."

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]alxianthelast[/nom]I wonder if they will be rejected if implanted into the body by the immune system (johnny mnemonic style)"I'm carrying 3.2 Terabytes of data in my body."[/citation]
No. It's inert. (kind of obvious)

 

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