We already had this, it’s called Intel Optane Persistent Memory and Intel killed it off last year: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/optane-persistent-memory/overview.html
The memory speed was slightly slower than DDR4 but the benefits didn’t seem to outweigh the downsides. I think it probably kicked a lot of ass for specific use cases (eg. in-memory database that needs persistence), but the market was too small. Plus, SSDs are getting so ridiculously fast that it would put pressure on a product like this too.
Perfect for when civilization collapses and we have to do some wasteland 2 shenannigans to get the lost knowledge of the past back by hoarding laptops.
And then you find out they were mainly working from the cloud.
Of course, this is still a new and emerging technology and it’s too early to say when we might see it in our devices, or how much it will cost.
Looks really cool, buy yeah my guess is i will cost to much to be viable for most things.
Maybe it could be good for moving and storing servers?
it’ll hit business servers first… speed and power draw = profits. Even if they cost 1000x more than SSDs, the power savings and speed alone could pay for itself in a datacenter.
Sounds like a niche use-case for pizza delivery drivers stumbling into cryo chambers
This sounds like a giant security risk?
Depends if the RAM is encrypted, and how secure the TPM is.
I admit to being out of the game for a while but how common is RAM encryption?
wouldn’t the overhead violate half the point of RAM?
This sounds neat, but it also seems like it does not have much practical advantage over hibernation except faster wake.
The power draw and nonvolatility could mean it can replace SSDs and hard drives entirely. Just store everything in RAM.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I keep my encryption keys in ram. No thank you.
