Επανάσταση στο χωρο των μνημών όπου θα δούμε τις πρώτες προτάσεις στο χωρο του pc/mobile industry μεσα στο 2016
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9470/...-1000x-higher-performance-endurance-than-nand
3D XPoint has a lot to chew on. There hasn't been an announcement this big in the memory industry since the invention of NAND in 1989 and while DRAM and NAND have improved and scaled a lot over the decades, 3D XPoint is really a new class of memory. It's fast, durable, scalable and non-volatile, whereas DRAM and NAND each only meet two of these criteria. It fills the niche between DRAM and NAND by taking the best characteristics of both technologies and creating a memory unlike anything we have seen before
The significance of the announcement isn't just the new memory technology, but that it's actually in production with volume shipments scheduled for next year. Intel and Micron have succeeded in bringing a concept from a lab to an actual fab, which is by far the most difficult part in any new semiconductor technology. Something that works well in a lab may not be mass producible at all, but Intel and Micron made the necessary investments to develop new material compounds and surrounding technologies to turn 3D XPoint into a real product. It will be interesting to see how the other DRAM and NAND vendors respond because the memory industry is one where you don't want your rivals to have something you don't for an extended period of time.
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All in all, it's impossible to think of all the possible applications that 3D XPoint will have in the future because it's a technology that hasn't existed before. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that 3D XPoint has the potential to change modern computer architectures and the way we see computing, but that transition won't happen overnight and will likely require competing technologies from other vendors to fulfill the demand. What is clear, though, is that Intel and Micron are leading us to a new era of memory and computing next year.
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Toshiba announces NVMe PCIe SSDs for notebooks and tablets
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Toshib...-SSDs-for-notebooks-and-tablets.147803.0.html
The new SSD series will be available in multiple form factors designed for small tablets all the way up to dedicated servers
Meanwhile, the BG1 SSD will come in even smaller M.2 1620 (16 x 20 mm) and M.2 2230 form factors fit for tablets and super-thin applications. Capacities for these units will be offered up to 256 GB.
Samsung begins mass production of new 3D V-NAND flash memory
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsun...n-of-new-3D-V-NAND-flash-memory.147825.0.html
About a week ago, Toshiba and SanDisk announced they would begin mass production of 256-Gigabit 3D V-NAND flash memory chips using 48 layers of 3-bit MLC arrays next year. Now, Samsung has just announced that it has already begun mass production of their own such chip for use in solid state drives.
When compared to conventional 128 Gb NAND chips, the new 256 Gb ones allow Samsung to easily double the capacity of its existing SSD lineups, also promising to double the performance and to offer 50 percent better power efficiency. The best news for Samsung's customers is that these new chips are also cheaper to produce, offering "approximately 40 per cent more productivity over its 32-layer predecessor."
According to Young-Hyun Jun, President of the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics, the introduction of this 3rd generation V-NAND flash memory allows the company to "provide the best advanced memory solutions, with even higher efficiency based on improved performance, power utilization and manufacturing productivity, thereby accelerating growth of the high-performance and the high-density SSD markets."
