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Good article comparing strenghts and weaknesse of future possible types of memory: https://semiengineering.com/new-memories-and-architectures-ahead/ "The list of new memories vying for attention include Phase-Change memory (PCM), Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM), Magneto-resistive RAM (MRAM), Resistive RAM (RRAM or ReRAM), spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM), Conductive Bridging RAM (CBRAM) and Oxide-based resistive memory (OxRAM)." As the article states, the IoT market will be hundgry for cheap memory with low power consumption hopefully that will help bring costs down. (Talking about prices, I know ReRAM is silicon oxyde based and could be produced by the same factories as now with the same type of material, so they wouldn't have to change everything to be able to produce that kind of memory, I'm not sure about others though).

Regarding the timeline... True that some things can take forever to see the light of day but, some collaborations between CEA-Leti and other companies have produced good stuff. Here's a taste: https://www.globalfoundries.com/news-events/press-releases/globalfoundries-extends-fdxtm-roadmap-12nm-fd-soi-technology http://wccftech.com/globalfoundries-begins-12nm-fdsoi-rollout-product-tape-due-years/ http://www.cea-tech.fr/cea-tech/english_old/pages/news/press releases/leti-reports-finfet-feasibility-and-circuit-design-for-better-area-speed-and-power-trade-offs.aspx We never what will take and what not... crazy!!!

Understand your concern, that's why I waited (check video release date and number of relevant links in post against the one link ). Doesn't make the matter still relevant though...

Thanks mariusm Didn't know about MRAM, interesting! It'd be nice to see something radically new to shake things up though... Claims are high, but you never know... The competition between Intel and AMD restarted and the consumers are benefiting from it. If ReRam was to come to the market soon, that would be a game changer, we've had tiny storage on smartphones for too long...

Some progress is happening with a new fast storage technology: ReRam (Resistive RAM). For some time now scientific companies have been working on developing a new generation of storage components that can be used to replace flash components in smartphones, SSDs, IOT… This component is “stackable”: it can be built in a 3D format where you could have different layers of storage on the same component. The company at the forefront of its development at the moment is Weebit Nano and they are doing it in collaboration with the CEA-Leti (a technology developing branch of the CEA (CEA includes the CERN where they discovered the Higgs Boson!!!)). I have a video on the subject of Weebit Nano’s ReRam here: It seems the process is well on its way since they are now in the miniaturisation phase. https://www.weebit-nano.com/media-2-2/press-release/ They claim ReRam is 1000x faster than flash and it shall use a fraction of the power that flash uses. It can even be made to be see-through!!! https://www.weebit-nano.com/technology/ A different website, Crossbar: https://www.crossbar-inc.com/en/ even states: “With ReRAM you get 1/20th the energy; 1000x endurance; 100x read performance; 1000x write performance and terabytes of storage on-chip.” Crazy! Western Digital have stated in 2016 their interest in this technology for their SSDs -following their own sourcing it seems- which makes a lot of sense. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10562/western-digital-to-use-3d-reram-as-storage-class-memory-for-specialpurpose-ssds When these components hit the market, we should get superfast storage that enable longer battery life and metric tons of storage. That will definitely be of interest to multitaskers or computer enthusiasts and everyone with a portable device. The last question to answer will be: How soon will we get it? They’re talking 2018… Only time will tell. One thing’s for sure, the sooner, the better! Happy storing!!!