3D XPoint - 2016 Intel-Micron NAND/DRAM killer?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33675734

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/28/intel-and-micron-produce-breakthrough-memory-technology

• 3D and stackable, initially 2 layers
• Non-volatile
• 1,000 times faster than NAND, 1,000 times the endurance of NAND
• More expensive than NAND
• Slower than DRAM, cheaper than DRAM, 10x denser than DRAM
• 128 Gb dies shipping in 2016
• BBC caption: "Modern consoles [and PCs] have 8GB of Ram, helping games developers create large [The Dark Mod] levels, but 3D Xpoint could give [The Dark Mod mappers] further freedom"

Edited July 28, 2015 by jaxa

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Clever setup. I wonder how they distinguish between reading and writing though.