Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part Two

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016. This is the second of two parts, talking about persistent memory. The first part is available here.

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:17 – Other types of persistent media – Phase Change Memory (PCM)
00:02:30 – 3D-Xpoint as an intermediary memory – Intel’s unique position
00:03:00 – Resistive, Phase change, what else is there?
00:04:00 – Charge-based technologies
00:05:00 – Resistance-based technologies
00:06:00 – Ferro-electric technology
00:07:45 – Market viability of these products – practical applications
00:09:15 – Back to 3D-XPoint again! – 1000x claims and reality (http://thessdguy.com/why-3d-xpoint-ssds-will-be-slow/)
00:14:00 – How the Intel/Micron partnership works
00:16:20 – The future of persistent memory technologies (standards – JEDEC & SNIA)
00:18:00 – Storage class memory and putting storage onto the memory bus
00:20:40 – Byte over block-level addressability
00:22:00 – Wrap up!