The specs on these chips aren't released, but previously Intel has quoted latencies around 1/2 DRAM speed (many orders of magnitude faster than SSDs). These ar

The specs on these chips aren't released, but previously Intel has quoted latencies around 1/2 DRAM speed (many orders of magnitude faster than SSDs). These are byte addressable - they will look like RAM to the OS. (If you have a motherboard that supports them, there is a slight change to the spec). To the application developer, the interface will be http://pmem.io/pmdk/ http://pmem.io/pmdk/ . Last I looked, there were several ways to do things, but the most commonly used would basically be allocating a chunk of memory and assigning it a file name so you could re-open it next time. This is exciting because it could open up exciting possibilities like zero-CPU IO with DMA straight to persistent memory, "sleep" mode that is essentially free, re-thinking paging in modern operating systems, and generally re-thinking everything we've assumed since core memory. On the same day we are talking about WASM microkernels in another thread. Things are getting fun again :)