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We already had this, it’s called Intel Optane Persistent Memory and Intel killed it off last year: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/optane-persistent-memory/overview.html

The memory speed was slightly slower than DDR4 but the benefits didn’t seem to outweigh the downsides. I think it probably kicked a lot of ass for specific use cases (eg. in-memory database that needs persistence), but the market was too small. Plus, SSDs are getting so ridiculously fast that it would put pressure on a product like this too.

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Can’t wait for my ram to last 1000 years just for the hinge on my laptop screen to last 2 (guess what just broke on my laptop after 2 years)

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guess what just broke on my laptop after 2 years

I’m guessing it was the floppy drive?

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The whole thing is floppy now.

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That’s what she said

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no, it was the power LED

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Nah. That thing will outlast us all

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Of course, this is still a new and emerging technology and it’s too early to say when we might see it in our devices, or how much it will cost.

Looks really cool, buy yeah my guess is i will cost to much to be viable for most things.

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Maybe it could be good for moving and storing servers?

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it’ll hit business servers first… speed and power draw = profits. Even if they cost 1000x more than SSDs, the power savings and speed alone could pay for itself in a datacenter.

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Perfect for when civilization collapses and we have to do some wasteland 2 shenannigans to get the lost knowledge of the past back by hoarding laptops.

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And then you find out they were mainly working from the cloud.

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If everything stored solely in the cloud was suddenly lost forever, that would probably be a net boon for humanity.

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True, true.

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lost knowledge memes

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Now… Let’s see what 1000 years of cosmic radiation does to the data.

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