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The innovation we are all waiting on is an SSD which has the speed and performance of RAM such that they become one in the same. With some chip yields as low as
by cosmiccatnap 5y ago
The innovation we are all waiting on is an SSD which has the speed and performance of RAM such that they become one in the same. With some chip yields as low as 30% we are approaching the limit of shrinking transistors and the next 10 years of innovation will have to be architectural. The idea of photon computers is also a direction we will see more research into and might be about to get a 1mhz light processor by 2030
- wallscratch 5y agoI thought modern computers are primarily cache limited and even running an os entirely on ram (on a system with no hdd/sdd) isn’t that much faster. I would be curious to see some data.
- imglorp 5y agoAre memristors still 5 years away or did HP bury those for business reasons?
- WaxProlix 5y agoYeah what's going on? I bought a chunk of HP stock 10 years ago on the assumption they'd be revolutionizing swaths of the computing industry and it never materialized.
- UncleOxidant 5y ago> HP ... revolutionizing swaths of the computing industry Heh... Yeah, I don't HP in it's current incarnation can revolutionize anything.
- WaxProlix 5y agoThat was sort of hyperbole, but the question stands :)
- astrange 5y agoI think if you have a bet like that it’d make more sense to buy a sector ETF.
- lisper 5y ago> The innovation we are all waiting on is an SSD which has the speed and performance of RAM I've often wondered why no one offers a product that consists of DRAM with an integrated battery. Every portable device, when it goes into sleep mode, constitutes an existence proof that this could work. You could even integrate this with a regular SSD to provide persistence when the battery dies.
- sophacles 5y agoThis has existed in various forms through the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive (section: Dedicated hardware RAM drives) It's non-existence (or at least extreme difficulty to locate)for current gen tech suggests that it doesn't improve performance enough to be worth the tradeoffs, but I'm not an expert in that at all.
- pkaye 5y agoThey exist mostly for servers. The capacity is much smaller since DRAM is much more expensive. http://www.ddrdrive.com/ http://www.ddrdrive.com/
- Jason_Gibson 5y agoA company called Violin Memory used to make one for servers: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html
- bXVsbGVy 5y agoYou can create persistent ramdisk with tmpfs. Add some batteries and a cronjob with rsync and you have the product you are looking for.
- dboreham 5y agoThis has been done for decades. For various reasons it hasn't become mainstream. Cost of DRAM is one of those reasons.
- Avlin67 5y agothere even was NVDIMM
- xyzzy21 5y agoIn theory, that would be MRAM - SRAM speeds, Non-volatile. Except as should be expected - there are details that have to be worked out in depth to ever allow such a substitution.
- amelius 5y agoPersistent storage is not really a bottleneck. Single-threaded performance is. This is the innovation we are waiting for.