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I think I read somewhere that the Skylake chips will have support for the new xpoint 3d memory. I would be surprised if it became commercially available this s
by tvmalsv 11y ago
I think I read somewhere that the Skylake chips will have support for the new xpoint 3d memory. I would be surprised if it became commercially available this soon, but it would be great to have a MBP with the new xeon and xpoint memory instead of the SSD. The xpoint memory is supposed to be as much as 1,000x faster than SSD while drawing less power and having a lot more write-cycles.
- szatkus 11y agoI remember article about Skylake's support for NVRAM (Non-volatile RAM) some time ago on HN. So it could be possible.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoWhy would you need special support for it in the CPU?
- vardump 11y agoMemory latency is high, it's preferable to do transfers to and from CPU L3 cache.
- vardump 11y agoSkylake has some specialized NVM storage instructions, like PCOMMIT. Earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565119 So you might be right.