ULTRARAM, a Technology That Aims to Bridge the Gap Between DRAM and NAND, Makes Another Step to Volume Production

[Peter_Brosdahl]

The engineers behind ULTRARAM have made another breakthrough in bringing the new type of computing memory closer to mass production.

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[Grimlakin]

If this catches wind... just expect someone like Samsung or TSMC to buy them... patent the ever loving crap out of it. Then just keep making DDR for a while, until they decide the cost to produce is worth it to lead the market. Or DDR ram just blows it so far out of the water as it be a non factor.

I mean if they can make it cheap and dense enough it might be nice to have a non volatile storage solution for long term backups...

Or if it's fast enough we can make all the people who never understood the difference between ram and storage right and have them be the same thing.

A sliding scale... do you need storage, or ram... just get a 8 TB supermem system and you'll have all of both!

I will say right now this product feels very much like snake water.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Yep this does seem like a too good to be true kind of thing and even if it isn't, I'm not sure how they'll be able to break through to sell it.

 

[Brent_Justice]

I guess we hear about all kinds of new RAM types that never really took off, innovation doesn't always mean it will catch on.

Fill me in though, what is the intended use of this, replace flash? replace DRAM? or sit in-between?

 

[Grimlakin]

I guess we hear about all kinds of new RAM types that never really took off, innovation doesn't always mean it will catch on.

Fill me in though, what is the intended use of this, replace flash? replace DRAM? or sit in-between?

After reading the article... It's more like.

We got something!

What's it do?

It's fast... ummm like RAM!

is it RAM fast?

Uhhh... maybe!!

Ok so it replaces ram?

It could... but we think it will hold data for a THOUSAND years!

Yea.. like the crystal storage technology they were talking about before?

Well we do grow crystals for this!

Oh so it's the crystal storage tech?

We think it may work like that...

What do you mean?

So we think it's storage and ram..

Sounds amazing!

Sure... I mean yea it is... Can we have some money?

If it's so great don't you have a ton of private equity investors?

Well.... no?

Oh... ok sure have some government money... we have to fund moonshots too.

 

[David_Schroth]

Prediction: RAMBUS purchases the company, proceeds to sue all the other DRAMURAI for IP infringement related to these patents until licenses are sold.