Exactly. I went to a talk by an Intel engineer saying this very thing. Fortunately it's not dead, and Intel has done more than anyone else to keep it from dyin

Exactly. I went to a talk by an Intel engineer saying this very thing. Fortunately it's not dead, and Intel has done more than anyone else to keep it from dying!!! OTOH back about three decades ago I attended a talk by a Verbatim marketing guy (they built floppy disks) that predicted that magnetic bubble memories would soon kill floppies. Well, he was right that floppies would die. But so did bubble memory.