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Does it make sense to compare a capacitor to a battery? It is a bit like comparing SRAM to Flash imo. I think some of the areas of a car to be potentially impr
by datameta 2y ago
Does it make sense to compare a capacitor to a battery? It is a bit like comparing SRAM to Flash imo.
I think some of the areas of a car to be potentially improved with this kind of advancement are: regen braking efficiency, size and weight, battery health.
- oliwarner 2y agoDoes it make sense to compare them as the lines between them blur? Absolutely! That's the best time to compare. And the same is true for DRAM and flash. There have been several moments in time when the tables have tilted where battery backed RAM PCI cards have made sense, or where sticking persistent Optane chips in high speed DRAM slots has.
- datameta 2y agoIndeed, DRAM and Flash have experienced a convergence - in server and mainframe land there is storage-class memory that functions as a cache or LUT between DRAM and Flash. I believe we are a bit farther from a true hybrid capacitor. As for true hybrid memory I believe the likeliest solution for embedded applications will be one of the different analog in-memory compute techniques currently being iterated on.
- NullifyNAN 2y agoYes because ultimately the goal of capacitor research is to make it more similar to a battery in terms of storage.
- neuralRiot 2y agoAnd battery research goal is to make them behave more capacitor-like, eventually they will cross their paths.