Can they do it?

[hh5]

when?

 

with intel and others coming of with rivaling better technology on arm

 

should one hold off buying an electronic device for 1 to 3 years to cash in on the better technology?

 

Crossbar is announcing today a new kind of memory chip that can replace flash memory, one of the fundamental building blocks of digital electronics, in a number of of applications.

 

 

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip startup is announcing Resistive RAM, a technology that can store a terabyte of data on a single chip that is smaller than a postage stamp. It can access that data 20 times faster than the best breed of flash memory. Those features could prove disruptive to the $60 billion dollar flash market that is at the heart of the $1.1 trillion electronics market. Flash is used in everything from iPhones to tablets to digital cameras.

Crossbar says it will enable a new wave of electronics innovation for consumer, enterprise, mobile, industrial and connected device applications. Because of this potential, Crossbar has had success raising money. It has raised $25 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Artiman Ventures, and Northern Light Venture Capital.

 

Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/05/crossbar-says-it-will-explode-the-60b-flash-memory-market-with-resistive-ram-which-stores-a-terabyte-on-a-chip/#PV6wyFsVQrOVw94h.99 

 

 

[MikeL]

 

should one hold off buying an electronic device for 1 to 3 years to cash in on the better technology?

 

 

Probably not.  Three years from now, still better technology will be about three years away.

[Bill W]

No matter how long you wait, there will always be something better.  It just that the changes come faster and faster all the time.  The doubling of knowledge is happening at an ever faster speed, so if you opt to wait for something better, you'll never buy anything. 

[hh5]

oh I found out samsung has theirs

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046016/samsung-prepares-fast-durable-3d-flash-storage-for-mobile-devices.html

[Former Member]

That would be so convenient...

[hh5]

yeah I heard that would be in the very soon that the far away if samsung can pull it off

[Kitt]

What's the point of a chip being so fast if the drivers they use are getting slower and slower? Windows 8 seems to take forever to open an app compared to 7 and 7 was slower than xp

[hh5]

Imagine your hard drive 20 times smaller or with 20 times more capacity

 

even if all the components in a device get smaller n faster the interface would still be pretty much the same

unless one gets implants, lol

 

Mystery Particle To Make Devices Even Tinier

A strange, newly discovered particle could shrink a laptop computer's hard drive to the size of a peanut and an iPod's drive to the size of a rice grain.

 

The particle, called a skyrmion, is more stable and less power-hungry than its conventional, magnetic cousin. Besides storing data in ultra compact media, skyrmions could lead to faster computers that combine storage with processing power and usher in smaller and smaller devices that have the same computing power as a desktop machine.

 

[chrysoprase]

I'm  hoping that I don't have to upgrade my little MacMini until quantum computers come out.

[clumber]

I'm still using a Nokia 32-10 so... *shrug*