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One reading of this is that Intel wants some future arch to be able to address huge amounts of NVRAM as if it were RAM.
by twotwotwo 10y ago
One reading of this is that Intel wants some future arch to be able to address huge amounts of NVRAM as if it were RAM.
- chiph 10y agoDo you mean like the single-level store that is used by the AS/400 (iSeries) machines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store
- ChuckMcM 10y agoOf course they do. If their X-Point stuff (or something like it) ever ships, they will want to put a couple or three terabytes of NVmemory on the otherside of the frontside bus. If you can do that you can enable some really amazing systems architectures. Things like a web search engine that consumes less than a 100W when it isn't serving a request because it can 'wake from sleep' and answer a query in under 10mS. And it can reboot in just the few seconds needed to change out the RAM parts of memory and pick up the giant data structure with the web index already loaded.