Prepare to be amazed! The new storage system proposed by Intel and Micron, promises speeds that are one thousand times faster than any current NAND flash chip.
The new type of memory, called 3D XPoint is said to be 1,000 times faster in both read and write than NAND, as well as being very durable. Today’s NAND flash lasts between 3,000 and 10,000 erase-write cycles, whereas with the 3D Point, we could see this number jump to about one million erase-write cycles, meaning the new memory would last pretty much forever.
Each slab of the new memory (above), stores 128Gb of data.
The 3D XPoint is already in mass production and is expected to go on sale in 2016.
More details of the announcement here.
