Silicon Week: What’s in store: The tech that will transform memory and storage

By Gary Marshall

Introduction and 3D XPoint

A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a bit of a laggard into the electronic equivalent of Usain Bolt. Usain Volt, anyone?

Bad puns aside, you’ve probably experienced similar performance boosts as PCs and Macs boast ever more RAM and ever faster SSDs. But what’s on the horizon is even more exciting…

The tech trinity

The performance of any device is largely due to three things: the CPU/GPU, the memory and the storage. While most of the attention is often focused on the processor and graphics solution, key developments are happening in memory and storage as well which will affect CPU and GPU tech, too.

One of the most promising new technologies is High Bandwidth Memory or HBM for short. Although it’s a very new technology Samsung and Hynix are already developing the third generation, which they expect to …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components