Persistent memories can or will soon match DRAM in terms of speed, which could see it eventually replaced in many applications if one of these technologies can scale up and bring the costs down.
One benefit of replacing DRAM with persistent memory is obvious; it keeps its content even without power, meaning there is less danger of losing data.
However, DRAM has been around for a long time and is cheap to produce and available in high densities – hurdles that persistent memories will also need to surmount.
The webinar pointed out that Optane, which Intel dropped in 2022, proved how difficult it is for rival memory technologies to compete with DRAM (and NAND flash) on price.
Techniques for wear leveling have been developed and incorporated into the software that manages SSDs to handle this, such that the experts contend that “any emerging memory can get by with an equally low endurance as long as it’s put behind the right controller.”
But the SNIA experts see CXL, or compute express link, as the future interface of choice going forward as it can present any type of memory to the host processor.
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Persistent memories can or will soon match DRAM in terms of speed, which could see it eventually replaced in many applications if one of these technologies can scale up and bring the costs down.
One benefit of replacing DRAM with persistent memory is obvious; it keeps its content even without power, meaning there is less danger of losing data.
However, DRAM has been around for a long time and is cheap to produce and available in high densities – hurdles that persistent memories will also need to surmount.
The webinar pointed out that Optane, which Intel dropped in 2022, proved how difficult it is for rival memory technologies to compete with DRAM (and NAND flash) on price.
Techniques for wear leveling have been developed and incorporated into the software that manages SSDs to handle this, such that the experts contend that “any emerging memory can get by with an equally low endurance as long as it’s put behind the right controller.”
But the SNIA experts see CXL, or compute express link, as the future interface of choice going forward as it can present any type of memory to the host processor.
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