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I don't see why this is a big deal. It's a year, so what? We've waited decades, a year isn't going to hurt anything. Hynix is a big business that is heavily inv
by zrail 14y ago
I don't see why this is a big deal. It's a year, so what? We've waited decades, a year isn't going to hurt anything. Hynix is a big business that is heavily invested in flash and it takes a lot to completely change the core of your business over, especially when you have to possibly build new fabs and fab technology.
- ck2 14y agoDouble the storage space and possibly double the reliability for the same price? Also potential power savings. A year is a huge deal if someone was planning on spending a million on a datacenter to make it use SSD for database, etc.
- zrail 14y agoSure, but making plans for a million dollar data center based on nebulous timelines and an unproven technology shouldn't be happening anyway. Your point about it being better is true, but the opportunity cost of going with the known right now is essentially zero.
- evgen 14y agoWhere do you get "for the same price"? I can assure you that even if memresistors cost 1/10 to produce the equiv in other tech they would hit the market at 10x the price. Better tech can get a higher price and as long as the ability to provide market demand is limited by patents or the cost to convert/build fabs then the supplier gets to set the price. Seems like a lot of people in this discussion failed Econ 101.
- Dylan16807 14y agoCompetition pushes the price of a product toward the manufacturing cost of a product over time.