Memristor AKA Universal memmory

qwertywarrior · February 18, 2014

im sure you guys heard about this

ive been hearing about this since 2007

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/how-universal-memory-will-replace-dram-flash-and-ssds-1222632

In about five years, flash and DRAM are going to get too small for what we want to do with computers.

Just as CPUs have to have more cores rather than just running faster because you can't get enough electrons into ever-smaller transistors to reliably store the ones and zeroes that make up data, we're going to reach a point where we can't pack memory in any more densely.

Capacities are still going up. Terabyte SSDs are in the shops, Samsung is stacking flash chips vertically, and even the tiny eXtended Capacity version of SD cards will go up to 2TB, but they'll hit the same problem of no longer being able to cram ever-more information into the same space.

The next generation of memory technologies aims to fix that. You could have hundreds of gigabytes or even a few terabytes of fast memory in your tablet or phone, that doesn't forget what was in it when you turn your device off.

"There have been about a dozen possible technologies [in development]," says Intel's Jim Pappas, "and if at least one of them succeeds it will be the single largest change to computer architecture that has happened in decades. It's about a thousand times faster than NAND flash and about a million times faster than a hard drive." That means it can work as memory and storage (without slowing your system down the way it does when you have to swap information from fast memory to slower storage).

"What does it mean when your storage system is as fast as system memory or your memory is as vast as all your storage?" Pappas asks. For one thing, you have to think very differently about what your operating system does with memory, because it never goes away.

ijKs Snow · February 18, 2014

Yeah, also been following this since the silicon era is coming to an end.

3D computing (stacking chips on top of each other) should suffice us till another step of technology evolves.

Quantum is still too far away, heard about DNA computing, graphite, etc.

We should be seeing a new step in computing technology in consumer levels by 2020 at the earliest emerge with mainstream robotics.

JAKEBAB · February 18, 2014

So does that mean we could use this memory for gpus so if we exceed the 3gbs VRAM it will use system memory which will be as fast as gddr5 equaling no performance loss and as much VRAM as we will ever need?

qwertywarrior · February 18, 2014

So does that mean we could use this memory for gpus so if we exceed the 3gbs VRAM it will use system memory which will be as fast as gddr5 equaling no performance loss and as much VRAM as we will ever need?

we already have this with DX11.2

universal memory is the idea that every memory will be the same be it RRAM or Memresistors its extremely fast it can be used as storage to store ur stuff or be used a system memory for gpu and cpu etc

it will be used in USB stick and be found on phones and in very large sizes

JAKEBAB · February 18, 2014

we already have this with DX11.2

universal memory is the idea that every memory will be the same be it RRAM or Memresistors its extremely fast it can be used as storage to store ur stuff or be used a system memory for gpu and cpu etc

it will be used in USB stick and be found on phones and in very large sizes

yes but isnt the problem ddr3 is to slow so when u exceed the 3gbs on your gpu it uses your system memory which causes frame drops because its slower so this could potentially fix this because of how fast it is am i right?

qwertywarrior · February 18, 2014

yes but isnt the problem ddr3 is to slow so when u exceed the 3gbs on your gpu it uses your system memory which causes frame drops because its slower so this could potentially fix this because of how fast it is am i right?

yeah but it could be remedied with faster DDR4 ram also AMD is working on a memory cube lets see how that goes

anyways we will see Universal memory in maybe 10 years maybe